Welcome to the Cafe, Bassmedic. I'm not a technician, so others may give you more help there. All I can suggest is that you experiment with the angle...
My coldest concerts were at Winterlude, our February festival on the Rideau Canal. Buffy Sainte-Marie and Randy Bachman (Guess Who, BTO) performed at...
I'm not a jazz player, but I agree with you. I've noted often that some people at the Cafe like to get into great detail about everything. Some poor...
I've been working for many moons on Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" from Janet Davis's book. It has four parts, all with tricky syncopated rhythms....
Correction: Pardon my geography. That should have been Ungava Bay, to the northeast of James Bay. The people of James Bay are mostly Cree, and fiddle...
Believe me, there are days when unlocking the door with numb fingers involves great willpower. Fortunately, our doorway is sheltered. My brother was...
By the way, I used to play fiddle with Morris dancers in Toronto, and sometimes played outdoors at temperatures slightly below zero (32F), with snow...
Man, oh man; other people's problems. My stepdaughter decided not to busk today because at -12 (10F) with a windchill of -20 (-4F), it's too cold to...
I agree with others (above), that it's valuable to play with people who are better than you. However, if they're too much better, the experience can...
Thanks, Mark.
I saw the film recently, and would have noticed if he'd played mandolin. I'd highly recommend Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me to all, though...
Coley Jones (circa 1880s – 1930s), a founder of the Dallas String Band was another outstanding blues mandolinist. Many of the details of his life are...
To expand your analogy, I've heard from Shakespearean actors that they improvise while doing a play. That is to say, that they more or less memorize...
For a few years, I've been using this fellow's video demonstrating how to use the "locking method" on strings, and find it very good. However, there...
Edward Lee "Ted" Hawkins (1894-1985) -- or was it Ezra "Ted" Hawkins? -- was an excellent mandolin player from Atlanta, Georgia. Besides mandolin, he...
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