Then there are certain songs that certain artists have done so definitively you can do them his way, or the wrong way. I learned that from Blind Willy McTell. Either I could do it his way or give it up entirely, and I like it too much to give it up entirely. Midnight Hours Blues . Sparseness is a good thing if you want to be pretty.
Silence is a part of music.
All those nice big fat thirds I got from Leroy Carr. Bout A Spoonful . I got it from Gary Davis. Not everybody knows what a spoonful means. But they know what a pause means.