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Originally posted by Bob Womack
If you ask a classically-train person to improvise, you are constraining him. If you ask a pop musician to stick to a sheet, you are constraining him.
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Bob - I agree with what you're saying, up to a point. I think that a mature musician should understand that both approaches are simply tools for making music, and that there are benefits to both. One is not necessarily better than the other, but one approach might work better than the other in different situations. I think Tom is trying to get his folks to broaden their musical horizons by teaching them how to improvise, not to abandon the use of written music.
Ken