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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:37:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-10, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
> On 2/10/2025 4:37 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I used to jam with a lot of different people before my fingers started
>>> getting arthritic. A few of the guys I played with were classically
>>> trained but really could not jamb. They had to have sheet music with the
>>> notes or at least a sheet of paper with the chord progression written
>>> out for them.
>>>
>>> I understood their problem. I had taken conservatory lessons and learned
>>> to read music. One of the reasons I quit the lessons was that the guys I
>>> knew who played by ear were able to play a lot more than I was and I
>>> could not play a song unless I had the music in front of me. Years later
>>> I picked it up again and met a guy who could play by ear but could not
>>> read music. We jammed regularly and made a point of learning from each
>>> other. I taught him how to read music and about chord theory and he
>>> taught me how to jam.
>> 
>> Why does being able to improvise matter?
>> 
>
> I guess you have to be a musician to fully appreciate it.  I knew a guy 
> that jammed frequently and he said it was better than sex.

You can be a musician without improvising.  Hundreds of years of
art (classical) musicians have done so.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton