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enjambment-and-taste · adler1974-manual-formulaic-composition
- Claim ID
- enjambment-and-taste
- Assertion
- Improvising banjoists face two problems: joining one formula smoothly to the next, and combining them tastefully. Unspoken aesthetic rules apply; Courtney Johnson would play whole breaks in the blues-chromatic style while Jack Hicks used it only as punctuation. At Bean Blossom in 1973, Hicks briefly lost continuity while improvising a difficult variation on 'Dusty Miller', drawing laughter from the audience.
- Quote
With a tremendous range of formulae to choose from, the skillful banjoist must put them together not only correctly, but also tastefully.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 57, 64 (n. 6)
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