I've had this happen and i've also been the offending guitar whacker :> In my case it's more a matter of not being able to get into a comfortable playing position than worrying about my instrument...
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I've had this happen and i've also been the offending guitar whacker :> In my case it's more a matter of not being able to get into a comfortable playing position than worrying about my instrument...
I've been wanting to do the same thing. As for why not just take the "good one."
I'd really like to have something cheap enough that I could either leave it in my cube at work or at least just...
Add me to the list of people who would like to see a seperate accessory category. I'm not often in the financial position to be shopping for a mandolin, tho I do look through the ads as a window...
I've been playing off and on for three years, so i'm not a complete beginner, but I'm not at all happy with where I'm at with my playing, so I'm looking to get back to basics and try and take a more...
My main pet peeve currently are people who feel they need to sing a harmony part on every song, even if they don't know the part and there are other people in the jam who could sing it.
It drives...
26/30 Would be interesting to see which ones i marked wrong, mostly to see if they were more subtley different than the vast majority or if I was imaging differences that weren't there due to marking...
I've heard good things about Greg Hansen. I had a guitar set up at Harry's and I was not particularly impressed with the results. The mandolins they have hanging on the wall generally are pretty...
Adding a program to a college has probably as much if not more to do with someone deciding there are enough students willing to pay money to study it as how "legitimate" the field of study is.
Welcome to NC. I'm in Cary. Theres a few jams in the area and seems anyone that has a an instrument and knows three chords figures they ought to start a band, so you shouldn't have too much trouble...
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I tend to think of the intermediate and advanced designations on camps and instructional materials as kind of like a grade level in school and really only relevant in terms of figuring out which...
I used to work for a small business that had a very slick website with a lot of product we didn't actually have in stock listed on it. The stories of fotw are all too familiar to what happened at...
Finally got around to watching my Orrin Star Bluegrass Rhythm guitar workshop DVD and I liked it a lot and it got me to wondering if there is anything similar out there for mandolin?
I also learned the four finger chords right off the bat and have never regretted it. I still can't make barre chords with anything though :/
Somewhere around the three year mark for me as well, though I haven't practice as much or as often as I should :>
One of the guys I used to jam with bought a Rover as his first mandolin and had it professionally set up and it played very well. Sounded terrible, but played real well. However, it may or may not be...
High gas prices were pretty much just the nail in the coffin on my festival plans this year. If I had really badly wanted to go, it wouldn't have stopped me, but i've just been meh this year.
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I took up mandolin at the age 27 and i'm still at it three years later. Sometimes I feel like i've made huge progress and other times I feel like a struggling beginner
who will never achieve even...
Re the sheriff's office...one would hope so, but having been a former employee of a guy who engaged in some very shadey business practices, got run out of two states before coming to NC and had many,...
Whole thing smells a bit fishy to me. Looking at the website, it still looks an aweful lot like the old front man is still rather involved and there is no annoucement on the front page about this...
I have a sabine tuner that has a metronome function, but even with the volume turned all the way up I have a hard time hearing it.
I generally end up using my keyboard's rhythm function instead,...
I put an Allen tailpiece on my Ratliff. I don't think it really made much if any difference in the sound, but I like the way it looks and that it doesn't poke me in the arm like the traditional...
I live in Cary, NC. I pretty much only play bluegrass and the jams I know of are pretty much straight up bluegrass, but I think theres a fairly good crowd of people into the alt country, jazz etc...
I've met a lot of really helpful, friendly and encouraging folks at jams who have never made me feel unwelcome in spite of them being far better players than I.
I also regularly see a certain...
The Breedlove Quartz I used to own was often described as the "loudest mandolin i've ever heard," much to my chagrin as a beginning player who'd been told that you have to play hard to be heard on a...