Ahh.. yes, i've heard tell of those types o ...rigid... folks :D Personally, the sort of sessions i was used to attending were far more anything goes, while it did not make for tight ensemble playing it certainly made up for that by allowing a healthy dose of experimentation and sheer bloody fun. We had our fair dose of fiddle tunes too, rattled out on fiddle and tenor banjo, and having little in the way of Irish tune repetoire i found myself messing around with rhythm and the more familiar i got with a tune the better able i was to start adding bits and pieces of the melody in to the mix. It certainly worked in those sessions but that bird don't fly in an Irish session proper...
Having never been at a bluegrass or old-time jam, i've never had the pleasure... though i have certainly seen such carry on in Irish traditional sessions, I guess some folks just don't like theirs shaken or stirred. On Jun 18, 3:56 pm, Steve Cantrell <sec...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I have listened to a ton of it and have done my best to emulate it when I can > get away with it...I would call it a mix of rhythm and melody. To me it fits > the duo style perfectly. I am content to do some dry chopping in a full band > since that seems to be what the straight-ahead contemporary bluegrass calls > for, but in any other context it is much more enjoyable to play around with > the rhythm and see what comes of it. > > I was once in a jam with some local guys who are somewhat...rigid...in their > approach to bluegrass. I was sort of noodling with the rhythm and one of the > guys said, "Just play it straight." Hell, I thought that was what I was doing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
