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I'll plug Sharon Gilchrist's Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin course at Peghead Nation. She's fabulous teacher, and her course covers technique,...

Take tunes and songs you know well and play them up an octave or even just starting in higher positions. Take your time working these out and see...

Well that did not last long.

For me, it's been a long journey to get to where I feel reasonably competent maneuvering about the fretboard, so my first piece of advice is "Give it...

I'm in - change to Kevin Winn, please!

MandoLessons.com is exactly what you are looking for. Highly recommended!!

Thanks for the comments gentlemen..its an attractive F5 no doubt about, especially in person. And especially in the early evening light(true mando...

Thanks, I actually saw your other post after going back and refining my search. I was going to delete the original post but could not figure out. I...

Oh,Yeah. Gets played all the time.

Nope....it's all instrumentals. Got my copy and it's great! Highly recommended.

If I've learned anything in 72 years of "stuff", it's that you never know what will be meaningful to someone else. Just an example (from a...

Did it survive, Jim?

Jim, I will admit that I learned it as much from the fiddling of friends Dave Bing and Danny Arthur as I did from Frank George. And, yes, this...

I wrote this last year but it's still pretty much my opinion: We're really lucky to have these online resources. Whether you go with Banjo Ben,...

As to Adrian's observation, I moved the oval forward and used an X brace and did a lot of praying.

The print I have is of teens era Gibson oval which I assumed is what you want to build. Doesn't matter which number ( A-1 , A-3 etc.) they were all...

Short answer: Longer scale tends to sound better. Shorter scale is easier to play. 22 inches is a good compromise. Long answer: It really...

I don't understand what you are talking about here. I only see posts about this relatively new builder and positive comments. Are you perhaps...

I agree chorus is not the same as paired strings. It is relentless, unchanging. Paired strings can be clean or chorused as desired, by means of...

Yep, that's my thinking. If they're actually firm, I'll just walk away. But from what it sounds like, it's unlikely anyone will actually risk 150 for...

Wow, what a beautiful mandolin! Play it in good health. Fwiw, i veryy recently bought a long desired 2011 martin cs guitar. It is universally...

I questioned the need for harmonic suppression until I started playing higher on the neck. Dissonance at G chop chord up an octave is particularly...

Knowledge … knowing a tomato is a fruit …. Wisdom … knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad …. Philosophy ….. considering whether or not...

Not every post is for every reader. The strength of a good forum is a wide variety of posters and readers. Keep up the good work on both your posting...