Re: [Harp-L] re: Question re: blue notes and micro-tonality

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

Practice scales not as "scales", but with the idea that you are being  
exposed to note choices over a certain harmony. Instead of "sequencing", choose  a 
note for a reason and see where it leads.

 
 
In a message dated 9/6/2008 3:32:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rhhammersley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I would  add that while practicing scales is excellent for technique,  
there  is a certain type of proficient yet clumsy improvising one hears   
sometimes where you can hear the player choosing and playing a  'good'  
scale for the current chord, often at blinding speed, but  doing this  
in a paint by numbers sort of way rather than one that  has much to say  
- except look at my great technique. The solution is  not to abandon  
scale practice, but to move beyond  it.





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