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Originally Posted by davidbeinct
So in your analogy is Rev. Gary Davis the finger painter?
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No. I was pretty careful to use language that did not apply value judgements or assignments.
The technical requirements of music are a continuum, from very simple to very complex. Where one puts a specific style of music, or individual piece of music, in that continuum is somewhat subjective. It's up to you where on that continuum you place any specific player or his or her music, including Rev. Davis.
If I was to bestow the "finger painter" (i.e. "simple", least technical in its requirements) label on any player, it would be the strummer of three (first-position) chords that I mentioned. One can play a lot of songs with only three chords. That isn't a bad thing. It just isn't very technically complex.