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studying their stuff or whatever, take away from up a lot of harmonic space, and doesn’t drive terms of diatonic numbers, Nashville numbers,
it what you will, but when you apply it, it needs a lot of energy, but is just an undercurrent of or does everything get charted out ‘properly’?
to be musically respectful to what’s happening the rhythmic motion that the song needs. around you. Sometimes it needs something that’s driving [Cory] For better or worse, I am a trained
and really pushing and taking a little more musician. I can sight read music better than
If you study a bunch of Jaco tunes, and then focus. If that’s the case, don’t play the thing most guitar players because most guitar
show up to play “Good Good Father” and you that’s subdued. If it needs something to really players can’t read. I play orchestra gigs. I
wanna throw all your Jaco licks on it, good luck! drive, play something that really drives. frequently play with the Minnesota Orchestra,
Hats off to you for trying, but it might not be
so I can read music. I’ve been reading chord
the most appropriate thing. So, yes, listen to That may be a little off tangent, but I think the charts since eighth grade in Jazz band, and
that stuff to open your mind, but just use good main thing for me with all of these influences, in high school. I’m totally comfortable reading
musical judgment as to when to pull that stuff is they may be a little left of center but that notes, totally comfortable reading chord charts,
out. Be creative with it? Yes, but I think for a doesn’t mean those are things you should but not everybody has to do it. I know that Joe
lot of people, when they’re getting into music always strive to do or incorporate into all of Dart can’t read a lick of music. But he’s one of
and studying new things, the biggest thing that your playing. Open your eyes, open your ears, the best musicians on the planet. By far one of
we all need to remember, myself included, is and open your creativity to what these other the best musicians I’ve ever played with, and
you have to be very tasteful in the way that you players, musicians, and bands do, but apply it he can’t read music, which is fine. He doesn’t
apply it. Don’t just force something in because with taste. You’re not going to go to India, eat a need to. In our band, we don’t write out the
you’ve been studying it and you want to bunch of curry and study South Indian cuisine, music, none of us have written out any music.
practice it or play it. Does the song call for that? and then go home and throw curry onto every Is it really something that serves that song? meal! It might not be appropriate, it might not But, if I’m doing session work, sometimes
Maybe, it could be something creative to do, work. Not everybody will like that! (Laughs) someone will hand me a Nashville Numbers
but it might not be. That’s something that we Sometimes you have to do what’s going to chart, and great, I can read it. If someone
always have to be honest with ourselves in. As work for the majority of the people around you. hands me a sheet music chart with all the notes
a guitar player, it might be the most appropriate
written out, great, I’ll read it. If someone hands
thing for me to play just a really simple line [WM] On the muso front, what are your me something saying, “Kind of go for this,
that drives the momentum but doesn’t take reading skills like and do you think of things in it’s in G…” great, I’ll hear it. For me that has
February 2019
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