The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99393   Message #1979978
Posted By: Jack Campin
26-Feb-07 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: Folk music lacking?
Subject: RE: Folk music lacking?
The usual version of "Spanish Ladies" I've heard is mixolydian - do you have an ABC for Sharp's?

I think it's better if people like Keith's pal stay away. The results of people trying modern academic jazz harmonies on folk tunes are usually grotesque beyond belief. I sometimes play in a session with a singer-guitarist who has OD's on Jamie Aebersold - nobody else can play along with him, and he seems never to have asked himself whether his consistent choice of the most outlandish chords possible does anything at all to help express what the song says.