CATCH THE CONTEXT 1
1953–1955
More swing from the same era. Listen to each person’s dialect and the music/Music they play. If it is honest, “IT” will follow the same rhythm.
To refuse to play who we are in our depths usually results in an insult to the Personhood of Music. To attempt to imitate, bow stroke by bow stroke, becomes a fraud. To learn from another person is another matter. Usually one person is far better, so choose carefully.
Mose Coffman: “Pick out a tune, whistle/hum/sing it until it takes on you [internal pulse or dialect] and then start to learn it on your instrument and not before.”
Four young men from the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Pay close attention to the fiddler. As a young man, Ben Townsend’s Music already carries the all-important “West Virginia Grit.”
Edn Hammons (1876–1955) was a fiddler all his life. His “Way” of playing this tune is a bit different from the way he played other tunes. But the “Way” of Edn’s playing carried with it cultural messages the Hammons and Roberts brought with them when they left Kentucky.
It also has that “18th Century Frontier Grit” shining forth. Edn was born in and lived his life among our Yew Pine Mountains of Pocahontas County.
“Rhythm is where you find it”?
I have included three men who have spent many years OJT to gently and very precisely respond to the sound of their musical instrument. This seems to put the cart before the horse. No matter, proper rhythm is the goal.
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The size is not what carries the day. A 6 oz. fife, a 90-ton loaded truck, or a cargo ship with 3,000 Toyotas— each drives with its own rhythm.
This last link is your assignment. Please “Catch the Context.”
- What are the different rhythms?
- How do they intermingle?
- The explosive sound of iron and steel on iron and steel?
- The scream from steam?
- Is there any help here for your music rhythm?
Sincerely,
Dwight
1940s
1950s
It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing.
It don’t mean a thing, all you got to do is sing.
It makes no difference if it’s sweet or hot.
“` “`html It makes no difference if it’s sweet or hot.
Just give that rhythm everything you’ve got.
1953–1955
More swing from the same era. Listen to each person’s dialect and the music/Music they play. If it is honest, “IT” will follow the same rhythm.
To refuse to play who we are in our depths usually results in an insult to the Personhood of Music. To attempt to imitate, bow stroke by bow stroke, becomes a fraud. To learn from another person is another matter. Usually one person is far better, so choose carefully.
Mose Coffman: “Pick out a tune, whistle/hum/sing it until it takes on you [internal pulse or dialect] and then start to learn it on your instrument and not before.”
Four young men from the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Pay close attention to the fiddler. As a young man, Ben Townsend’s Music already carries the all-important “West Virginia Grit.”
Edn Hammons (1876–1955) was a fiddler all his life. His “Way” of playing this tune is a bit different from the way he played other tunes. But the “Way” of Edn’s playing carried with it cultural messages the Hammons and Roberts brought with them when they left Kentucky.
It also has that “18th Century Frontier Grit” shining forth. Edn was born in and lived his life among our Yew Pine Mountains of Pocahontas County.
“Rhythm is where you find it”?
I have included three men who have spent many years OJT to gently and very precisely respond to the sound of their musical instrument. This seems to put the cart before the horse. No matter, proper rhythm is the goal.
1.
2.
3.
The size is not what carries the day. A 6 oz. fife, a 90-ton loaded truck, or a cargo ship with 3,000 Toyotas— each drives with its own rhythm.
This last link is your assignment. Please “Catch the Context.”
- What are the different rhythms?
- How do they intermingle?
- The explosive sound of iron and steel on iron and steel?
- The scream from steam?
- Is there any help here for your music rhythm?
Sincerely,
Dwight
