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The Monroe version does not include the second part, just the first and third. The quality isn't very good but I did see Dave Davis & the Warrior River Boys do a blistering fast version on YouTube...

Be very careful about your pick stroke direction.

It goes beyond "matter". It's absolutely crucial.

"da picks"? What, are from "da hood"? :cool:

Too many to list but I have played several to many of a few mandolins worthy of note.

Heidens - many, dating back from the very earliest ones. They seem to get better and better.

Loars -...

Here'e the front and back panels:

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This was how he expressed his offer to be educated/corrected:

"So I submit myself to be educated/corrected, but I just don't get it. I rather pick than watch the evening performance of the...

I don't know. You seem pretty set in your opinions and have expressed them vigorously. Camps are expensive and it can be hard to justify them on a "dollar per unit of instruction" basis or however...

You can argue that all you want. You can be as right as right. But it is different with music and I think one is in trouble if they don't recognize that. Liking it is another story. But when it comes...

Now here are some small hands:

That's funny - taking the Loar's name in vain. Mandolin blasphemy!

I gotta admit, that's one thing I never thought I'd see. Cool T-shirt.

I think the connection is that the amount of newbie posts that really ask the same few questions again and again have contributed to a kind of "dumbing down" on the forum. There just aren't as many...

Here's another thing I've noticed about newbie threads and this site. It's getting swamped. Must be a critical mass type of thing but over the past year or two, newbies have been coming out of the...

Fabulous. You should buy it and post a sound clip.

Regardless the question or the way it's asked, the advice turns out to be pretty similar in most cases. There are a few key points to make and plenty of people willing to make them. Newbie threads...

Hmm, can't say I've noticed any particular change recently. Seems at about the same level as usual, which is pretty darn low compared to the internet overall.

This might fit the bill:

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If you're interested in early bluegrass, check out this link:

http://frobbi.org/picking.html

Thanks Mike. Nice to see your new website. Looks good!

I thought I'd divorce this topic from the other thread about workshop ideas. That seems a bit played and I'm well on my way to having the workshop formatted. Thanks again for all the good suggestions...

Doesn't he have his own website? I'll take that over Wikipedia any day.

Here's an unmastered version of one of the tunes from the soon-to-be-released tribute to Snake Chapman. This is "Coburn Fork of Big Creek":

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Ten thousand hours. Or so they say.

Kevin Breit is a big deal in Canada, especially in the Toronto area, where he lives. There's a lot of mandolin and mando-family instruments on his albums.

One of the nicest examples of him just...