The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111538 Message #2352695
Posted By: M.Ted
30-May-08 - 01:41 AM
Thread Name: the choices of chords in folk music
Subject: RE: the choices of chords in folk music
Reggie Miles said "Much of what those early players were doing has baffled me for decades. Without the ability to read music or understand tab, I've not been able to glean what others have discovered about the styles and approaches of some of those early masters. The one thing that I've noticed while listening to them was that their playing was unique and not guided by the formal principles that are so prevalent today. "
Early blues has a really solid theoretical structure, and the formal principles that it is built on are very similar to the ones that are used in classical music of a certain period.
Some of the people that learned blues by copying from records never grasped the underlying musical structure, but it is there--