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Jeff, it's somehow comforting to be reminded that things could have been much worse. I wore a cast for 4-5 days. I walk with a crutch; today I managed something like 4 miles. I feel something, not...

Why yes it is. It's OK to throw a capo on a banjo or guitar but it is somehow wrong when it's put on a mandolin. I have yet to use a capo on a mandolin but that's only because I have yet to have a...

Just curious; are you a doctor?

When I was brought to the hospital I was examined for skeletal injuries: neck, back, hips, etc. No problem.
I pointed to where the pain was and I was X-rayed in...

There's the thing with the concept, and sometimes they get in the way. I've goosed up quite a few Monroe numbers myself - there are examples on my website - namely those that offered the best...

Don't think so. It has been said elsewhere that Bush's wrist stiffened as a result of an accident. (My own left wrist recently suffered a similar fate, so I can imagine the truth of this).

Pretty much. There has been talk of adding Ricky to Politics and Religion in the posting guidelines as a hot button issue. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif[/QUOTE]...

the term for that would be "take off". I wonder why the word "break" is used for solo chorus in the BG world. In jazz a break is a short improvised solo phrase with the other cats laying out.

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It's not common and he's not a cheater. He capos III and plays in or around the key of F, which is (taking the first 3 positions into account) the easiest key of all on the mandolin, in a very real...

Thanks. I was X-rayed and examined today. Seems the radius crack has healed completely; I can play the mandolin fairly well. Unfortunately it seems my wrist has been compressed, i.e., the gap between...

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As for the guitar, on a flattop I play with a half-open hand, brushing.
(playing finger-style I used to plant two fingers, but I've given it up).

When playing on the bass strings the extended...

I'm convinced they would produce more rhythmic interst at a slower pace. I believe Curtis Jones manages to play an unbroken sequence of 256 eighth notes in his second chorus (the first is mainly the...

Been listening to the Mulligan Sextet lately. Trumpet player Jon Eardley wrote Demanton on these changes. Nice piece with even nicer soloing by Zoot Sims

Three note chords, that I certainly advocate, can be #just as closed as the g chop and the like. Mixing in an occasional open string may create som unusually close voicings or other effects, but to...

That is my observation, too. Seems the backward arching of the wrist induces some undesirable forearm motion. Hard to see on the screen, though.

Don, the Hot Club version is in G; I have a live recording of Grapelli with the Diz Disley Trio, in F, and I'm pretty sure he did it in the same key with Grisman.

In bop, as you no doubt know, the...

I can now play a little mandolin; seems I can reach most scale and chord forms although I sometimes feel a sting of pain; in other words the radius crack hasn't healed completely. Of course I try...

Am I mistaken, or does 7-5-2-3 mean the G chop chord? #Meaning that the 7 is the G string and the 3 is the E string? #

Does anyone use it, you ask! #That's the chord that everyone is either 1)...

I think this issue is overrated, at least by mandolinists, who also tend to overrate the harmonic and rhythmic possibilities of the mando
forgetting (HACKMAN'S THEOREM: rhythmically and harmonically...

What abut the violin?

My main instrument is the guitar, has been for 50 years, and will always be. That's where I learned all I know about music.


The reason I still play the mando, in spite of diminishing technical...

Don't think so, but he taught Scott Gates, maybe still does.

that same site has a couple of Clifford Brown solos including Pentup House, a lesson in improvising several choruses over a simple progression. But to really dig the dynamics of Brown's soloing you...

In an earlier thread I questioned the existence of genuine mandolones in captivity. However:

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