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Guitar with a built-in fishing-reel?

Wow, I just looked at his discography on CMT and there's around 70 albums on there. The ones we had around the house when I was a kid weren't as close to the beginning of the list as I expected...

Lip-syncing to "Huggin' and Chalkin'" off one of his first albums was probably my first musical performance (in the living room for anybody that was willing to watch). Tried to finger-pick "The Claw"...

Good if you're buying.

Watch Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs in the 3 pickers video (I'm not gonna mention #3, he's too controversial :-) ). They're way beyond trying to impress anybody, just a couple of virtuosos playing what...

A multi-disc CD player or MP3 player with a random function is pretty fun to play along with. Keeps you on your toes cause you don't know what's coming next.

You made them say the T word!! :-)

Go ahead and play that 245 as 2245 if you don't mind barring. It's a nice moveable shape. Slide up 2 frets and you're playing B, 3 frets for C. To me this shape...

It sounds hard when you talk about it. It sounds like music when you play it.

It would be nice if we could circle up and pick a bit right about now.

I should have known "Autumn Leaves" would have been the answer to my stupid question. I'm working on it right now as my first jazz tune. I haven't figured out any simple patterns for jazz chords...

Thanks Don, I was gonna point that out to them, but I didn't wanna step on anybody's toes. :-)

Can you tell me a commonly known song that uses a viim7b5?

I think it's useful to notice the patterns the chords fall into on the fretboard in relation to the I chord. Once you know that, you don't need a chord sheet and don't even have to care what the...

We need some words of wisdom from Yogi Berra here. Maybe some of these apply:

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. "

"There are some people who,...

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Some people seem to be more suited to a methodical/analytical approach to studying music and some tend toward a more intuitive approach. You have to...

This has been suggested on here in several other threads (wouldn't be surprised if you were already doing it), but I think it really ties the open and closed stuff together.

Take those open...

... the guitar player ducked, and the banjo player shuffled through with knuckles dragging the ground, oblivious to the whole situation.

This thread is so dim.....

I tend to think of picking as either being scale based or chord-based. Just 2 different ways of coming up with a point of reference so that you know where the good notes are likely to be found. I...

I'm very pleased with mine. It really likes to growl, but it'll play sweet too and plenty of volume. I'd have to go way up in price to get something I'd be willing to trade for.

...yeah, but sometimes you just gotta haul off an sing the Crawdad Song.

Well executed, simple, approachable music that people can relate to will beat out technical chops any day of the week in terms of just getting people to listen to it and enjoy it.

My band was...

I think it's helpful to pick up the mandolin occasionally through the day and play a song or songs you're learning once and then put it down. We tend to play a new song repeatedly until we get it...

Isn't climbing a mountain just a series of 5 minute walks? Some folks have the luxury of stringing them all together into one long walk, others don't.

If your butt's in the saddle, you're training the horse (and/or the horse is training you). Even when you're just tromping out to the barn & feeding them you're training them.

Same thing with the...

There's a big difference between three-finger picking and flat-picking, so I think the right hand will be the toughest transition. I think flat-picking is easier.

On the other hand (literally),...

I love my Silver Angel. Should be able to find one in your price range and I bet you'd like the tone.