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Sagacious? Ha! But I do have a couple thoughts and reactions.

1. You can have other members of the group run practice, focus on THEIR interests.
2. Take a break! practicing twice a week is...

I'm putting together a duet (at most trio) project featuring a fair amount of originals done in traditional (old time, fiddle tunes, bluegrass, string band blues) formats as well as some interesting...

That's tasty! Very nice.

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Ok, just tabbed out a rough version of Lyle Meador's break (I believe) from Karl Shiflett's "In Full Color" album. I have my struggles and successes playing all downstroke solos but this...

Bumping this to remind folks that tomorrow's the night and we could use another mando picker :)

Thursday nights, 7-9 p.m., at Blackbird Music, 52nd and Bloomington. NOTE that in about a month, they'll be moving to 34th and Cedar.

I'm leading things so that means we'll play bluegrass but we...

;) Guess how he got wind of your needing a teacher LOL

Have fun and good luck!

Here's the Mel Bay link: http://mb.melbay.com/authors.asp?author=2540

There's at least one guy I know of by the name of Michael Gregory. He teaches at UND and has written a book on Irish mandolin for Mel Bay. He's a real nice guy. I'm not sure if he's on the cafe...

Listen to Compton/Grier or Compton/Newberry too. And I would add it depends on what you and your partner like to hear. There's plenty of room between spare and busy for you to do things. You have...

Look for http://www.northsidesouthpaws.com/home.html. Good stuff!

Thanks Journeybear. I am happy with it. I'm pleased as punch to be proven wrong. I've been humming this ditty for almost two days now. Gotta come up with a catchy name and really learn to play...

MMick: I had heard that before but it's a good reminder. I was, naturally, more afraid I'd done the George Harrison "My Sweet Lord"/"He's So Fine" trick :D

John: Beautiful tunes. I absolutely understand what you're talking about as these two remind me of yet another tune/song the title of which escapes me, though I believe it to be Irish. (EDIT: ...

Thanks for the feedback folks. Yeah, I am usually not terribly self-conscious about whether or not something I've written sounds familiar. Given the multitude of fiddle tunes (pipe tunes, etc. etc)...

I do that from time to time. But I had this tune stuck in my head today so I wrote it down and recorded a rough version. Give a listen and see if it rings a bell. I'd love to sign my name to it...

A buddy of mine and I did one for a while. Distance and music preferences have limited our getting together but we had fun with it. There are a number of practice videos on my youtube of us playing...

Kinvara has some good picking, south of Galway: 2-3 pubs of it, a farmer's market, and a great cultural center. I got to pick with Johnny Moynihan there just about 3 yrs ago this Oct. Frank...

My experience with adult learners suggests that the biggest two problems are "wanna" and "coping with fumbling."

Wanna--how bad do you want to do this? Sounds like you want to pretty bad if it's...

Could be a number of things Eric. It'd be helpful to see a picture of your left hand grip. Fretting hand position can influence tension up or down. I use and recommend this (starts around 2:20)
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Hi Manolo! Thanks for posting your tune. You're doing a fine job! I wish I could have been able to play that well when I was first starting.

As you may or may not know, there are as many...

I understand the "key turn" to be the motion of the wrist where, if you hold your hand straight out from your body and engage the motion, it looks like you're turning a key in a lock.

The reason...

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I got this from a combo of the Grant Brothers' recording of 1928 and the excellent Milliner-Koken collection of fiddle tunes.

rootless C7th--has an extra Bb on the bottom (flatted 7th note) to it but that's what it looks like to me.

Umm...don't? ;) Sorry to be facetious. Most chopping I've done or seen doesn't feature any kind of silent down beat. The premise being that any motion not used to make effective sound is wasted...