A Miles Davis tune

[Rich Arnold]

I once thought of Miles Davis album "Kinda Blue" as dinner music but lately I've sorta been digging it.
And I even feel the need cover it some.

https://youtu.be/LpFzCxTv2y8?si=BJc3cOvjwdsD91fR

[Kirk Francis]

VERY cool, bro!

[Mike Neer]

That’s nice, Rich. I really like those Magnatones.

[Jim Mckay]

Some fine picking there. Nice, Rich.

[Sam Conomo]

Thanks for posting,
Really nice.
Sam.

[Rich Arnold]

Thanks everybody who listened and commented.

[Fred Treece]

Great playing as always, Rich. A very tasty dinner

With this video, I paid closer attention to your right hand technique. You are a “let your fingers do the walking” style picker on the single note stuff, especially on the higher strings, while the thumb plays more of a supportive role in the lower register. This seems to keep your hand mostly in position throughout an entire solo. Alternating T-M and T-I pickers tend to move their hand across the strings. Both approaches are obviously effective, but I don’t see many single-note guys doing what you do. Are you also a classical guitarist?

[Doug Beaumier]

Nice playing, Rich. Very smooth, good tone, and nice phrasing on the improv.

[John Sluszny]

Super indeed !

[BJ Burbach]

STRING MASTER,
IMHO
BJ

[Rich Arnold]

Great playing as always, Rich. A very tasty dinner

With this video, I paid closer attention to your right hand technique. You are a “let your fingers do the walking” style picker on the single note stuff, especially on the higher strings, while the thumb plays more of a supportive role in the lower register. This seems to keep your hand mostly in position throughout an entire solo. Alternating T-M and T-I pickers tend to move their hand across the strings. Both approaches are obviously effective, but I don’t see many single-note guys doing what you do. Are you also a classical guitarist?

I've never been a classical guitar player but when I was a young kid I used to play the armpit and try to mimic Chet Adkins.
Technique is not something I spend a lot of time thinking about or analyzing. I hear what I want to play, then the technique that allows me to play it is formed.
I always say "I don't have a technique"

[Rich Arnold]

Nice playing, Rich. Very smooth, good tone, and nice phrasing on the improv.

Thanks Doug.
I think I'm finally getting around to playing what I want to hear, the way I want to hear it with less thought as to what an audience might want. Or what will get me lots of his on the internet.
Not that I don't care about people, I do, but it's a tough guessing game as to what people will like, and I've sorta thrown in the towel.
I've been accused of having some sort of " imposter syndrome complex" or something.
I guess I do feel like an imposter when I'm trying to play music that requires a costume.
That's show business and I've been in and around it for most of my life and breaking free of that thinking is not easy.
Btw. When I'm playing what I want to hear, I'm more relaxed and hit a lot less clams. For what that's worth.

[Rich Arnold]

Super indeed !

Thanks.

[Rich Arnold]

STRING MASTER,
IMHO
BJ

I wouldn't go quite that far. I've spent quite a bit of time slumped over my guitar, but not mastered it yet.
Maybe by next year.

[Tim Toberer]

Like a lot of people, that is the album that really got me hooked on jazz. This will never be topped and I think I will spend the rest of my life learning from it. This is probably the most approachable tune on the album. I think I relate to all music in terms of the the blues and can really learn a lot from how different people approach this form. Really great to hear it on steel! I have to remember to check your channel frequently, you have got some great stuff going.

[Rich Arnold]

Like a lot of people, that is the album that really got me hooked on jazz. This will never be topped and I think I will spend the rest of my life learning from it. This is probably the most approachable tune on the album. I think I relate to all music in terms of the the blues and can really learn a lot from how different people approach this form. Really great to hear it on steel! I have to remember to check your channel frequently, you have got some great stuff going.

I like the record a lot too.
At first, it didn't hit me very hard.
At the time I discovered it I was listening to Stephen Grappelli and Joe Pass.
But it grew on me over time and I still listen to it after almost 40 years.
Music has always produced images in my imagination as I listen.
Nowadays this younger generation has music videos where the imagery is already suggested but back in the day, a person had to create their own pictures that go with the song.
Kinda Blue works great for that.
I find I reach for that record when I'm driving long distance or on a late night flight.
I guess everyone has their own way of listening.
That record gives me lots of unidentifiable feelings and images of places I have been.
It's taken me many decades to get around to trying to play any of it. Maybe because it's such a complete work as it is
How do I add to or improve perfection?
Rather than reinterpret it, all Im left with is to try to step inside it and try not to change anything too much.

[David Mason]

Dinner is IMPORTANT. Music evokes moods and Miles touched a lot of people with his playing, arrangement concepts and DRASTIC hiring practices. Imagine hiring Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane and NOT worrying that you were going to get cut soloing - he had something so different he could play ABOVE the obvious head-cutting he designed. That flow... The late 50's, late 60's and mid-80's bands were all ridiculous - just hiring John Scofield to scare Mike Stern into playing better took some kind of whammy!