[TPIN] "Now why don't he write?"

[William Graham]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Willey" <richwilley at yahoo.com>
To: "Del Gue" <del.gue.mtnman at gmail.com>; "Mark Deaton" 
<mdeaton at ix.netcom.com>; "Tpin" <TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [TPIN] "Now why don't he write?"


> --- Del Gue <del.gue.mtnman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Why didn't Maynard write the definative explanation of his playing?"
>
> The whole time I played with Maynard, I never asked him how he did it.
>
> What I did find out from paying attention, though, was that Maynard was
> designed by God to have ridiculous high chops. Maynard had no idea how he 
> did
> it, couldn't explain it if he had to, and he couldn't understand why 
> everybody
> couldn't play high like him.
>
> I don't think he ever felt guilty about raising the bar so high for the 
> rest of
> us, and why should he? He was just doing that which came "naturally" for 
> him.
>
> If he had written a book or a text trying to explain what he didn't really
> know, think of the damage that might've taken place. He probably did us a 
> huge
> favor by not trying to write "the Maynard Method."
>
> Rich

IOW, He used the Lauren Bacall method...."You just put your lips together 
and 'blow'."