From dave@daveoakley.plus.com Thu Jul 26 04:56:55 2012
Subject:Re: Rock & Roll and Age ..who is the elder statesman in our group ?

well, young players starting out have access to so much more teaching resource now. Even when i started playing keys about 12 years ago, finding good learning material was tricky, and unless you were lucky enough to have access to a good teacher, making progress was often difficult and frustrating. Fast forward a decade and there is an overwhelming amount of video and online resource, virtually queuing up to show you the correct fingering technique, the secret gospel voicings, the correct practice routines and all those little tricks and trademark licks that the 'old timers' spent hours pressing rewind on a Jimmy Smith recording, trying to figure out. When you consider this, it makes you realise just how incredibly talented and dedicated the 'dinosaurs' had to be to reach these levels. Looking at it another way, some of these young players may one day become the 'greatest musicians that ever lived', as they have greater access to learning resources and that might enable them to quickly develop the raw skills and get out in front of an audience from a very young age, rather than spend the best years of their lives just trying to figure out the basics.

Lets hope so, because that's progress and without that music or any form of art, is a fairly pointless pursuit and we may as well just program computers to do it for us. Although im sure there are those that would argue that music has not progressed far since the 19th Century and has even gone backwards? I don't prescribe to that theory myself but I do hold a similar view regarding the 60's and 70's? Hey were all biased....
UKDave

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