Hey there.
In article '#307', John Mcdonald wrote:
JM> Yeah.
JM>         Well, sometimes, maybe I make myself appear a little more ig-
JM> norant than I probably deserve.  You say, "...simple harmonic sub-
JM> stitution, m'boy".  Shoot, I graduated from the University of Min-
JM> nesota in '68, so I am probably older than YOU look. 
Well, I get carded at Safeway on Sunday trying to buy beer (age for that is 
18, here...), so it's apparently not very difficult to be older than I look. 
(G)
JM>         Yes, I've known about harmonic substitution for a long
JM> time, and unfortunately the chord you suggested, as you yourself
JM> note is the same one I was already using.  With your background
JM> at Berklee, you undoubtedly know MORE about harmonic substitution
JM> than I do.  Don't know if you saw the message I got from the other
JM> fellow who advised that I try going up a triad from the dominant to
JM> an Ab7?  Well, that did the job.  I did appreciate your input, and
JM> did learn something from it, and do thank you again for it.  You
JM> never did write and say what kind of music you're playing now,
JM> what your gig is, what instrument you blow, etc. [in the old days,
JM> all the cats 'blew' an instrument even if it was drums or a guitar,
JM> the guy on the keyboard would say, "blow me an e-chord, man"]. I
JM> think modern homophobia kinda wrecked that, or I'd say "blow me a
JM> message, man".  I'm too heterosexual to be hip, I guess.
Glad that any of us here could be of help, myself especially.
I sent a Private email back, but the system here probably ate it.
I play guitar and bass, and sing a bit. I will play anything that someone 
else will pay me to play, style wise. doesn't matter, I like most all of it. 
Less so with the newer stuff (No one is writing melodies and anything other 
than depressing lyrics now adays, IMHO). I've played everything except for a 
whole night of polkas or heavy metal (I'm in a steel drum band and a Hawaiian 
show band as well as my original band).
I know all about blowing... been doing it for years (not to be confused with 
blowing IT, which I've also done...)
Sometimes I think I'm too non sexual to HAVE hips...
Will Morrison
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