How do you play?

[strad]

Browsing through Mudcat I found that "Rees plays like Jimi Hendrix or Paddy Keenan, wild and free"

Nigel

[george garside]

I play like me! -its much easier& more fun to develop your own style than to try to be somebody else

george

[ladydetemps]

I play in the style of...myself. lol!
Copying other people is too much effort.

[ukebert]

I don't think that anyone would like to copy my style

[Chris Ryall]

I don't think that anyone would like to copy my style

Dunno - what about the crooked man who walked the crooked mile?   (my 6 pen'th)

[summerstars]

I play in my own self taught very bad habited style - which is fine when I am on my own, or just accompanied by guitars - but causes some difficulties in larger sessions

[Anahata]

Very few people play in purely their own style, because they must have listened to other melodeon players and have been influenced by them.
Tony Hall might be an exception to that.

[strad]

Who knows how I play?? As best as I can, though I have noticed this standard varies day to day.

Does Rees have any comment to make?

Nigel

[JimJ]

Mostly sitting down

[Rees]

Well now. If I'm playing with my Zydeco band (Joe le Taxi) it's wild and free all the way.
When playing with fiddler Flos Headford we take it in turns to be wild and free, but sometimes we both go off on one at the same time leaving our percussionist to play the tune on his tambourine.
Then again, if I'm playing for a stepdancer I'm fairly rigid and disciplined.

I suppose it's all a matter of how the music takes you and what you feel you can get away with at the time.
I certainly enjoy improvising inside a tune but it's easily overdone.

strad: any chance of a link to that quote. It might look good on my CV. 

[strad]

Rees: In the Mudcat Forum there's a thread 'UK's best melodeon players' I found the comment in a post by Ian Gill dated 6th April '10. The post was 10 up from the latest post. Perhaps fame and fortune are coming your way!!

Nigel
 

[melodeon]

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=56334&messages=145&page=1&desc=yes


10 down

[Rees]

Ta.

[ganderbox]

I'm sure we all play in our own style. In my case it's a mix of morris, ceilidh, pseudo-Irish, Cornish, French and Breton, all personalised by my attempts to disguise my shortcomings, but generally played like I mean it!

[juker]

I am still at the early part of learning to play so put too much energy into just getting the notes right and so on to have a style as such, but I do prefer to play standing up and, in fact, rarely practise sitting down.