RIFFING
Warren Haynes by Ken Settle
wants you to hear louder, you’ll hear
louder. And the notes he wants you to hear
softer, you’ll hear softer. I think I have a
similar approach in that it’s from the blues
background. All the great blues players
did that. It’s one of the things that may be
hard for a jazz guy to cop – just because
they are such totally different school.
It’s always been my theory that you play
how you play because that’s the way
you always wanted to play. Then, years
down the road you start second-guessing
yourself. I think sometimes maybe I should
have studied and played jazz more. Just
because I listen to it so often and I learn
from it so much. But I remind myself these
things were what was important to me at
the time. That’s why I play the way I play.
I can just start relearning and trying to
open new doors for my own self, to learn
things that maybe I wasn’t capable of
learning before. ■
“The Brother” by Robben Ford
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