I'm writing out tab for "In the Mood" (in G major) for a friend. In the third measure there are a couple of flat(ted?) notes. How do I show the flats...
Wow. It is comforting to see and hear someone with a flyaway pinkie like mine play that well. The problem is that I can no longer blame my pinkie for...
My first new mandolin was a pressed plywood top Ibanez. I learned a lot on it, but I think it would be better to start with a solid top instrument at...
It's a Kimble. It was briefly listed in the MC classifieds in late September. Plays better than I can play it. Sounds a lot better when I don't have...
The tune of the month for December, 2020, is "The Girl I Left Behind Me" -- aka "Brighton Camp", "An Spailpin Fanach" ("The Rambling Laborer"), plus...
Here is a website with a series of lessons on musical notation. It is labelled "music theory" but the first 20 or so lessons are basically on how to...
Wow, Maudlin, that version has a bunch of those triplets. If there ever was any doubt, that makes it unmistakably a hornpipe. Good job on a difficult...
hmmm - Louise, I left the following comment on your video yesterday. But I must have not hit the "send" button. Now, on reflection, I heartily agree...
I was born in Louisiana, been over 30 years in Texas, began playing guitar as a teen. I play guitar with friends, at small gigs and at bluegrass jams. I play acoustic blues, country blues, gospel, country, rock and bluegrass music. I bought a mandolin in 2014, got serious about playing mandolin mid-2015 and my interests are mostly in bluegrass, folk and old-world fiddle tunes.
I also have an interest in documenting information about the group, The Bluegrass Alliance (all incarnations of the previous century rather than the re-alliance group of the 2000's).
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Palmer, Texas
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Music, lutherie, woodwork, wood finishing, web design
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Furniture repair, architectural millwork repair, web design
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