Re: [Harp-L] Blues Scale / Shapes

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

It's nice of you to have picked my brain and said exactly what I was  
going to say. Saves me a lot of typing.
smo-joe

On Mar 7, 2008, at 6:51 AM, G. E. Popenoe wrote:

> Yeah Ken, I play both diatonic and chromatic. It's all about  
> shapes, colors, textures, emotions for me. . While I'm a reader, I  
> don't spend much time thinking about theory.
>
> Sure, I made a point to learn what the books say is a "blues" scale  
> early on, but I simply used study of the various scale types as  
> background information from which to explore. If I actually thought  
> about the nuts and bolts while I was playing my little pea brain  
> would overload.
>
> Most of the time I don't know what key I'm in unless I stop and  
> think about it. I don't want to think. I do plenty of that for my  
> day gig.
>
> Everybody has their own way of getting there. Some use a lot of  
> craft while others use more intuition. My bet would be on intuition  
> in regard to the technique used by the blues greats.
>
> Advice we might hear from one of the greats might be, "Hey man,  
> shut up and play!"
>
>
>
> Gary Popenoe