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If you're play fast, legato runs - no. It definitely makes a difference if you are playing a song like "Going To My Hometown" with chords. Upstrokes make it jump out from a mix of instruments.

Where Art Thou?

I think he's just stringing us along

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Some Monday motivation

Seems relevant: Fretboard Journal Podcast 29: John Monteleone (skip ahead about 14 minutes)

http://www.fretboardjournal.com/podcast/fretboard-journal-podcast-29-john-monteleone

All Punch Bros fans, there's a free download off of the Hunger Games Soundtrack - Dark Days. Google also lets you send a "one-time" listen to your friends...

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IFF Sigmund Freud met this builder, it would validate his theories...:)

You have a good point there...

Speaking of Star Trek, does anyone have the tab to Spock playing the Vulcan Harp :grin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm4SZbAgcIA#t=3m08s

Nice older Gibson Mandola with a $399 shipping charge! Guess UPS raised the rates when shipping from Uranus :grin:
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And buy an Almuse pickup and have a good professional install it and sound shield the pickup cavity. Made all the difference in the world to the sound of the Mandobird. (I have no connection with...

Ὁ λόγος γὰρ ὁ τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῖς μὲν ἀπολλυμένοις μωρία ἐστίν τοῖς δὲ σῳζομένοις ἡμῖν δύναμις θεοῦ ἐστιν

Just for fun, some riffs from Mahavishnu Orchestra's - "Birds of Fire"

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But to keep on Santa's nice list, I admit I cannot come close to playing measures 19-20 at speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RgNNEqNb8w

My friend Pete and I did a cover of that in G. I think the Stones did it in Bb. I didn't copy Ry's solo note-for-note, I just used the G pentatonic scale...

Plus mandocello, excellent!

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Tabledit file of the horn riffs to "Sir Duke". I tabbed the break riff two ways.

Or bodhrans and banjos

My suggestion is to approach like playing a mandola. I do have one and find two/three finger chords work best. Suggested book:
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1967-Gibson-EMS-1235 Tenor/Mandolin-Doubleneck

Wow! If there was ever a time I wanted to win the Lottery!

I can't believe that passed over Lady GaGa for Chris ;)

Need help with the tab for measure 7 & 8...
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Audio+picture version we did on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrT6uJotIgg

by Gregory J. Thomas (not me)

I hope Sam changed the strings... I read in Fretboard Journal that he tried Jethro's strings (Black Diamonds?) and hated them...

And the fretboard needs to be replaced
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