Tony, I know what you mean but boy did she have fast fingers. I can play "Musty" and the "Girl With Emphysema" and even "Rolling on the River", but I can appreciate her technic. My fingers are old and slow.

These comments remind me of the difference between todays rock guitar players vs. an old jazz guitar player. My son has this friend that is considered to be a great rock soloist. He's very fast on the solos. He is also the guitar player in our praise band at Church. I direct the praise band and once I told him that he should be using a diminished chord in one spot. He didn't know what a diminished chord was. He's a kid that plays lots of notes.

I contrast this to an old (now dead) guitar player that used to play with our big band. He would sit and read off my chart (once in a while, most tunes he didn't need the chart) and effortlessly hit every chord, passing riffs and his occasional solo. Modulations and key changes didn't bother him at all. He just sat back and cruised the whole job. He actually died on the bandstand at a jazz festival in Virginia if I remember correctly. This guy played music not just a lot of notes.

Lots of notes do not make music but I still wish I had that kind of technic. I'm not quite ready for bingo yet.

Tom