DATE: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 12:15:21 CDT From: Richard Owen Subject: Re: David Harp
| TO: internet:harp~kuvx1.wku.edu | | >listening to David Harp was excrutiatingly painfull...I | >felt like I was in a class and Barney was the teacher) | | Yeah, but you should have heard his early cassettes, where he | sounded like a Bronx hot dog vendor trying to convey the | subtleties of caviar. |
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The point is, as a beginner, you think: 'I could do that!'. Hearing a Gary Primich tape I would have thought: 'I may never learn that'. Teaching beginners is a tricky business. The transition from not playing at all to playing is a big one.