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my journey into the blues #11 - guitar rescue
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Richard Jernigan
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Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
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 RE: my journey into the blues #11 - ... (in reply to tele)
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Backing tracks--reminds me of an anecdote even further off topic.
My ex-wife went to college on a classical piano scholarship. I have been obsessed with music since childhood, but my son showed outstanding talent by age four, outclassing us both. With no instruction, he would sit at the piano and accurately reproduce whatever he heard.
By age 16 he was a proficient blues and rock guitarist--but he could play just about anything. I was out of the country on business when a couple, among my oldest and best friends visited Austin. They stayed at our house. When I got back my wife told me our son and Pat had been jamming quite a bit.
Pat is a talented guitarist and song writer. He composed and recorded the sound tracks for a couple of National Geographic specials that won awards.
Pat is a very accomplished improvisor. After I got back in town we went to hear a local singer-songwriter. Pat had taught him to play guitar. At the break the singer-songwriter came to our table and insisted we go home (nearby) and get our guitars.
During the few years after Pat left Austin the the singer-songwriter's harmonic vocabulary had expanded quite considerably. He brought Pat and me up on stage and introduced Pat as his guitar teacher. He said Pat had never heard any of the songs in the next set. I wondered how it was going to go. The singer-songwriter turned away so we couldn't see what chords he was playing. Pat correctly anticipated every harmonic nuance, and played really good licks between verses. I watched what Pat was doing and kept carefully in the background. I had never seen anything like what Pat did that evening.
My son was too young to go to the club to hear the performance. He had never heard Pat before they jammed at the house. I asked him what he thought of Pat's guitar playing.
My son paused, then said, "He's a pretty good blues rhythm player..."
I broke out laughing. My son asked, "What's so funny?" I dug out the tape of one of the TV shows. "That's Pat's composition--an hour's worth--and that's him playing, multi-tracked guitar and bass."
"Wow! He's really great! All he ever did when he was here at the house was blues rhythm..."
"He just wanted to hear you play."
RNJ
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Date Jun. 15 2015 22:52:52
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BarkellWH
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Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC
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RE: my journey into the blues #11 - ... (in reply to El Kiko)
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quote:
i know this might sound a bit wierd .. me telling you ... n all that ...
but like , you do realize your on the wrong foro , dont you .. ?
theres like ...
the blues forum
Bluestalk.com
blindmans blues forum
big road blues forum
loads of them .. some of these may want to see what your up here ...and have great advice ...
one of the blues guys may have a flamenco guitar ..if so send him over here
Maybe not the wrong forum, El Kiko. Back in the 1970s, and again in 1982 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, I went to see Carlos Montoya in performance. As his penultimate piece, Carlos played "St. Louis Blues" flamenco style. It was actually pretty cool. I also have a vinyl album by Carlos Montoya with his flamenco version of "St. Louis Blues" on it.
Bill
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Tin pan alley is very difficult to improvise to, you did well 
Thanks for the critical support. I haven't given up yet. 
