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Thanks for your prompt reply.

"This often involves interesting fingerings and/or cross picking to keep the sound going as long as desired. " Mark could you elaborate upon that if you don't mind with examples?

So you have the magic bullet Don Julin's blues scale and Marc Woodward's one and then you get the Andy Statman blue's scale, which, if I remember rights is: g, bflat,b,c, c sharp, f, e.

Which one...

Magic bullet for bluesy. Funny I posted a question about this scale ages ago. I had a book on rock guitar way back when (an American book) and the blues scale they used throughout was exactly the...

I was referring to some interviews yesterday, cited by by someone here on the forum (something to do with the blues I think) and saw an interview with Mr Stiernberg where he mentioned a new album,...

I'm not sure if this is really on the same topic but here goes. The kind of arpeggio playing I am interested in is those little fillers used during songs. Most recently, Ralph Porter posted a chordal...

I don't know about YouTube but he plays it on his rhythm playing for mandolin DVD, which is worth the price just for that one tune alone.

Excellent, Mr Porter

There was a version by an Irish group, the Johnstons that I used to play on the guitar years ago using modal chords and I managed to imitate it on the mandolin starting somewhere on the fifth fret to...

I knew an Irish mandolin player many, many years ago who told me he had his mandolin specially made with a stronger neck so he could use banjo strings. It certainly sounded very good. When I told a...

Thanks for the tips. I suppose I could crosspick but I've never been sure how you incorporate the melody into the crosspicking pattern.
The clip has many famous Scottish and Irish musicians I see....

Thanks for posting the link, Ivan. Actually my doubts about the feasibility of playing this on the mandolin are because he is fingerpicking and that is what I would like to incorporate (with a pick...

Does anyone have any thoughts about the possibility of playing the banjo player's part on the mandolin please?

Marc I only just noticed your great version of Stevie Wonder's song. Well done and thanks.

John Kelly, how does the USB do the job when an ordinary mic doesn't? I installed audacity but obtained a poor result using a standard mic, will the USB improve upon this tremendously. I'm not sure...

"Remember, you don't have to learn to play better than Sam Bush, you just have to learn to play better than yourself. For me, that puts the bar low enough that on a good day I can think about getting...

I think what he means by strumming the melody is exemplified by Sam Bush when he starts his solo to Girl from the North Country. He starts off playing the melody on the top two or three bottom...

Thanks a lot, Tom

That's not bad at all, Tom Sailor. Did you ever get around to writing out the tabs?

I started holding the pick in a kind of pencil grip with the third finger hanging around as backup many, many years ago when playing the guitar. I also used to rest my wrist on the bridget. I...

That is so fantastic, Marc. Welcome back

Thanks very, very much for the tips.

Somebody the other day wrote a post about an exercise he did for improving right and left hand coordination. Finger down on note, down with pick, open string, up with pick, etc. I tried this out and...

Does any one play any JT's tunes on mandolin? I know Marc Woodward worked a JT songup into a mandolin tune once (tune without the words) but I wonder if someone (Marc in particular) does any of the...

I bought the transcribe slowdown program years ago and have learned lots of tunes with this. Very cheap and regular free updates. I have no idea if the Amazing Slow Downer is better or worse but I...