I love that Ricky Skaggs "Songs my Dad Loved" album. Great stuff!
you might want to look into:
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Larry Rices "Notions ans Novelties". Really good Mandolin album.
or maybe:
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Butch...
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I love that Ricky Skaggs "Songs my Dad Loved" album. Great stuff!
you might want to look into:
103384
Larry Rices "Notions ans Novelties". Really good Mandolin album.
or maybe:
103385
Butch...
If you need mandolin tab; go here for free:
http://mandolinsessions.com/?cat=8
lot's of good stuff there for Irish mandolin.
but...If you get away from tab and learn to read notation, and seek...
in garage-rock band world, yeah Guitarist can be a bit much...but in acoustic situations, I can honestly say there are more "Diva" types playing mandolin than other instruments combined..JMO, based...
I think I remember reading an interview with Bill Monroe along time ago, where he stated that the ONLY instrument that was really required for Bluegrass to be "Bluegrass" was the fiddle..or something...
I posted my feelings about fiddles earlier in the thread...
Now fiddle TUNES...that's another story. I know a fair amount on mandolin, but do I like fiddle tunes played on a mando (or guitar, or...
I'm mostly just a Bluegrass fan, not so much an old time string band fan, though I of course like it. I appreciate the Celtic stuff and Irish Trad but am not really a big fan. To me bluegrass and...
Do yourself a HUGE favor and go visit the fine folks at Appalachian Bluegrass Shoppe
http://www.appalachianbluegrass.com/mandolins.html
You live in DC, so Catonsville, MD is a stones throw away....
For a paid performance (i.e gig): I'd say it's good form to take the tuner off your headstock. But really, personally, I wouldn't care if someone did or not.
Now for a Jam session...who cares?...
Exactly...that was why I clipped one to the head of my Pedal Steel...to check intonation on the fly during practice...worked fine.
I have a red one AND a blue one. They ARE BOTH chromatic..Both have "metronomes"
Differences:
Red one has a built in microphone if you don't want to clip it on (a little switch to toggle between...
Ouch...That would bug me too! I don't own any instruments that cost that much, but I do like keeping my stuff as pristine as possible, even though, as others said, if you are going to play out, stuff...
I saw him say on stage that the scarf was because there was a Railroad tramp that came through his town once, playing guitar, that wore one and he just thought, as a little kid, how cool would it be...
If you were performing on stage and under lights and people were paying to see an ACT....why wouldn't you want to wear something "Bigger then Life"? Something that showed folks you were in SHOW...
JMO...Let me start by saying I've obviously never heard you play, so of course I can't answer your question..:grin:
anyway..speaking from a Bluegrass perspective, I can make the following...
This is what I do, not that it is right or the only approach.
I keep my chops pretty dry and percussive. Always all closed string chord grips, most always four fingered chords.
As for how much...
I wanted to go but I'm going to the "Wernick Method Jam Class" in Alexandria, Va today. It's a four weekend affair. I went last week and really enjoyed it.
I went to Orrin Star's mandolin workshop...
Good Job! Sounds great. Thanks.
That's a good old song. I always liked Grandpa Jones version. I learned to play it clawhammer banjo style a long time ago and never thought about it for Mandolin..
anyway, here it is in G:
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at an average of an hour a day playing, sometimes more a few times less...I change 'em when they sound and "feel" "dead" to me..usually about every three weeks.
I do, however find that I can...
http://www.bluegrassjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/bill-monroe-280x292.jpg
http://www.allaccess.com/assets/img/editorial/raw/bi/BillMonroe.jpg...
I don't think any of the three is always going to be better then the other two. You got to go play some mandos and then pick. When I bought my Eastman MD515, I kept trying it out and then trying out...
I gots it.
I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet (I got it as a Christmas gift).
I DID learn a cool version of "Groundhog" from it though.
The CD that comes with it is just a copy of the...
What follows is my opinion and not a statement indicating in anyway what one must do, OR the "right way" to do something, just the way I think about and do this...( I preference this this way because...
I can vouch for Helton Creek. It's a good cd. I've listened to it quite a bit. I never heard of the Chris Henry "Monroe Approved" one. I'll have to order that one soon.
Well I got Chris Henrys Bill Monroe DVD last week and have spent a little time with it.
Good stuff. I've been using way too much tab to learn, so this is a good way to wean myself off it and play...