Whoa - way too many people reading way too much into most likely innocent comments entered online!

Regarding the 'elitist' references to others: Try not to think of it that way but more along the lines of "hey, if you didn't grow up eating lutefisk, you probably aren't going to like the taste of it". Perhaps I should include a Wikipedia link here for those that don't know what lutefisk is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk

I absolutely did not grow up listening to bebop or anything even remotely close to it. My dad liked stuff like Burl Ives, Sons of the Pioneers, Roger Miller, etc. Of the 20 or so albums that we had, those are the names I remember. I remember the vinyl that they bought from either the tire store or a gas station that was like a who's who of MOR pop-music; Andy, and Steve and Edie, Liza, etc.

Had my dad been spinning bebop discs, I most likely would hear the melody that others hear, but simply escapes me.

It's absolutely ridiculous to claim that because you don't like the sound of something, that there's not talent in playing it, or education in learning how to play it. I don't like microtonal music from India, but the folks that play it with flair are no doubt talented, educated and likely enjoy the nuance that seems like noise to those that don't.

I don't like the speed/metalcore growling that my 16 year old listens to - but I tell you what, the musicians in many of those bands have the fugue mental process and talent in spades. The precision in timing that some of the drummers and guitarists have, with their 8 string electric guitars, and the double-kick drums is astounding - and it's not just studio magic. I believe they play to a click track of some kind - but even with that, it's still incredibly precise human interaction with the click if that is the case. Talent of it's own kind. Education of it's own kind.

Transcription is on the path of nearly any musical education. Performing the act of transcription involves many skills that assist one's musical development whether it's transcribing the Cannonball Adderly solo done in the OP's clip, or a Bach organ fugue, or a Doc Watson lick on the banjo, etc. Teaching the brain the connection between critical listening, playing and writing and reading has to knit some neurons together that weren't knit before.

Now, back to eating lutefisk......

(Edited to add Wikipedia link to lutefisk)

Last edited by rockstar_not; 07/01/11 12:53 PM.
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