Jon Crowley

Thanks for answering my question Ingrid,

That's a cool view of transcribing, not to cop stuff so you can drop it in a solo necessarily but so you can hear anything and execute: like ear training.

This definitly goes with some recent dissatisfication I've felt about going out to clubs and hearing people play ONLY pre 60's vocabulary when its 2007!

If I'm not misreading your responce, it sounds like you also feel that a player has to find the things he/she wants to play and in a sense develope their own vocabulary(or at least try to)

I guess the real challenge today is with so many styles and types of music readily available, it is difficult to absorb it all. It seems like as every generation comes and goes there is more and more to absorb.

time to practice....