Figured it was time to check in and see what folks are up to these days. I got involved with the thread on harmonies that I started and really enjoyed it.

You know it's funny. Knowledge has a way of sneaking up on you. You get so used to thinking that you don't know much about a particular subject that it surprises you when you realize that you've actually learned something, over the years. My general motto is "If I can do it, it's no big deal." The things that really impress me are things that I can't do. Once I learn to do them, the mystery is gone, and it's hard to see that I really know anything.

I notice that Foolestroupe kept posting the same comment endlessly on the thread about harmonies: that folkies should receive formal musical training, rather than discovering things by trial and error.
Apparently, musical training worked for him (or her.) That's great.
Whatever works. For me, I don't think that they could evercapture the music I love on paper, or analyze it in a way that would be helpful to me. I guess that's why I'm a folk musician.

These days, I'm working out arrangements within my own limitations, for my gospel quintet, and having a great time of it. Actually, the hardest arrangements to work out are not musical. They're trying to get five people together at the same time for practice.

So, what's going on with you folks?

Jerry