Talk:Piedmont blues
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Merge Piedmont fingerstyle into Piedmont blues?[edit]
It is hard to see how these two articles are going to go into different directions. The content of one pretty much just restates the other. Whaddya think? -MrFizyx 13:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- I Agree. It's supprising that the two are seperate.GolumTR 02:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
- OK since there have been no objections in the past month and a half, I've mereged them. -MrFizyx 18:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
More In-Depth[edit]
After just visiting this page, I'm honestly a little disappointed at its lack of information about Piedmont fingerstyle and blues. If anyone can find a bit more info, I think it would be a good thing. -Militantsalmon 17:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
- You're right, it really needs to be expanded! Perhaps you yourself would like to give it a go? Regards, -MrFizyx 02:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Category error[edit]
This topic is NOT a guitar technique. It is musical style. If we start listing every style of music performed on the guitar under "guitar performance techniques" we would soon be in big trouble. Therefore I've removed it from that category. RichardJ Christie 00:42, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- That category remains from the merger of the article with Piedmont fingerstyle. It is actually not so easy to distinguish this style of blues from the guitar techniques used to play it. I'm OK with this either way. I don't think having it in that category is getting us into "big trouble". -MrFizyx 04:06, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. I see the term "Piedmont" falling into two categories, at least when refrencing blues music: Piedmont fingerpicking is most certainly a guitar performance technique, whereas Piedmont blues is a subgenre of blues music that incorporates this fingerpicking technique. A similar confusion/controversy arose from whether we should only include musicians in this article that are specifically from the Piedmont region and inventers of the fingerpicking technique, or if the list may also include musicians not native to the Piedmont region but were players of Piedmont blues (i.e. Mance Lipscomb, who hailed from Texas). I'm inclined to go with the latter. However, I'm an amateur and certainly not a musicologist, so I'm not going to declare I'm 100% correct on this. Peace. --buck 15:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- I've edited the redirect from Piedmont fingerstyle so that it now contains the category. This is how I left things after the merger, but someone was unhappy with that as well. We'll see how it goes. -MrFizyx 19:03, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- A good way to make the distinction between the two topics would be to describe, at least a bit, the guitar technique itself. Beside knowing where it got it's name from, we don't know much about the technique, musically speaking. the description is somehow vague, in my opinion. TakenAback 01:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- I've edited the redirect from Piedmont fingerstyle so that it now contains the category. This is how I left things after the merger, but someone was unhappy with that as well. We'll see how it goes. -MrFizyx 19:03, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. I see the term "Piedmont" falling into two categories, at least when refrencing blues music: Piedmont fingerpicking is most certainly a guitar performance technique, whereas Piedmont blues is a subgenre of blues music that incorporates this fingerpicking technique. A similar confusion/controversy arose from whether we should only include musicians in this article that are specifically from the Piedmont region and inventers of the fingerpicking technique, or if the list may also include musicians not native to the Piedmont region but were players of Piedmont blues (i.e. Mance Lipscomb, who hailed from Texas). I'm inclined to go with the latter. However, I'm an amateur and certainly not a musicologist, so I'm not going to declare I'm 100% correct on this. Peace. --buck 15:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)