Subject: RE: [Harp-L] re: One-Chord Boogie

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

You're dead on, Scott, at least imho and I approach this as 'mostly' a  
music lover/listener. I only came back to the harmonica world in 2004/5 as a  
'player', but have been attending concerts and shows for umpteen years as a 
fan,  albeit one who played keyboards and sang my head off in private.
 
 
I've always been able to hear music on a multi-level basis..could  pick out 
what was going on fairly easily. My husband on the other hand, admits  to 
being tone deaf. Can't hold a tune at all. It's especially funny if I'm  
trying to remember a particular song and (forgetting), ask him to hum a couple  
of bars. At the end of his humming I'm no better off than I was before, or 
even  more hopelessly lost. :) 
 
 
His first time hearing Jason play left him mouth agape by the brilliance of 
 the performance but it was the Band as a whole he really enjoyed. While 
he's not  a harmonica fan per se, he still knew that what he'd just witnessed 
was  extraordinary--but he couldn't have remotely explained why. 
 
 
It IS a bit of a cross to bear when one is excitedly discussing a  really 
terrific performance or phrase just heard and instead gets back the blank  
stare, but DO take some comfort in knowing you're not alone. At least  people 
who 'don't get it' aren't usually overly critical of your playing,  although 
in my case he'll tell me that I didn't 'play as well tonight' here  and 
there and when I ask what it was I didn't do as well, it'll usually turn out  
to be a particular song he didn't like as much as  another !!~0~0~!! (that's 
me rolling my eyes). :) 
 
Elizabeth
 
 
Message: 12
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:29:41 -0500
From: Scott Hicks  <dscotthicks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] re: One-Chord  Boogie
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>

I've learned to accept  that people hear music differently. Most musicians 
listen at a deeper level,  with something of an analytical ear. We hear 
parts of songs as well as  instruments individually, while most non-musicians 
seem to hear everything at  once, without particular discrimination. They 
often don't know why a song  "works" for them, or doesn't work, while we can 
pick out different things (the  drummer is solid but the bass player is sloppy, 
e.g.) that help us form an  opinion about a song or performance. This is a 
continual source of  disappointment for me, not because of undeserved 
audience compliments but  because my girlfriend is one of those non-musician types 
and it's next to  impossible to share cool things in songs with her, or get 
a detailed musical  opinion on something. :)

Scott

> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] re:  One-Chord Boogie
> From: 3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013  23:28:10 -0500
> To: icemanle@xxxxxxx
> CC:  harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> You might be surprised at what the audience  feels. Tonight I got a huge 
compliment from a regular looking man who turns out  to be from 
Montreal.....with a 16 piece band. 
>  smo-joe