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The piano keyboard is definitely a wonderful tool as it allows us to see intervals in a clear way (though I'd argue that the mandolin also allows this). When I was first trying to learn this stuff, I...

If you're just trying to memorize theory, flash cards are helpful IMO. I used to have a stack in my car and would pull them out at stop lights or in heavy traffic. Basic things like "What's the 1 3...

I have two old (1930's) instruments - a Stahl banjolin and a Regal resonator. I used light strings - .008 or .009 E's based on good advice from this forum. I would advise the OP to use lighter...

Just came across this impressive video, with Mike Marshall playing and directing the orchestra. I assume that they're on tour elsewhere. Other videos have women, including, I believe, Caterina...

In terms of memorizing chord progressions of jazz standards – it's helpful to be aware of the "mini progressions" found within these structures. Within most any 8 measures of a standard tune you'll...

Up till now I have remembered tunes visually as key-related and inter-related chunks of paths on the fretboard. I don't often look at the fretboard but can 'see' it from feeling. I can't remember...

I don't believe that was true at the time. To some degree, the term "Celtic" was popularized in the 1970's, with Williamson being a promoter. "Celtic" was around earlier, often used by romantics and...

Just my opinion, but this has been my experience in applying mathematics, engineering concepts, plumbing, wiring, auto mechanics and music:

Memorizing steps, formulae, songs, etc. is fine, but...

I have two memorization tips.

1) Just as bigskygirl and others have said,try to relax and enjoy yourself.
It will come naturally.

2) Umm err !.....I seem to have forgotten my 2nd memory tip.

A lost cause at 1.5 years…maybe you’re being just a wee bit hard on yourself…?…I would guess you’ll feel this way 20 years from now.

Anyway, instead of memorization think internalization. Know -...

And another one is to make sure that when you practice these tunes you begin at lots of different parts.
You can record the tune yourself at slow tempo and let it loop, then practice playing nothing...

"fiddle tune ... at a jam". making mistakes while playing at a jam is the normal, not the exception. ideally you play through the mistakes, but if you completely bomb out, just wait for the tune to...

When you practice do you stop and “correct” any clams you play? DON’T DO THAT! If you stop when you practice you’ll train yourself to stop when you play. Play through your errors, keeping the feel of...

Much depends on where you put your thumb during playing. Folks who hold the thumb on the very lowest point of neck (like classical guitar players) usually prefer flattish rounded profiles (depending...

RH sensors are inherently not that accurate. It's easy to measure temperature accurately, not so much molecules of water in the air. I used them at work and I needed very accurate sensors for our...

I'm with the "you've got to play fast" school. I know that in tai chi, after doing the moves slowly for years, you're supposed to be able to use them rapidly when necessary for self defence. However,...

Rummaging through some old hard disks recently and came across this mandolin-&-guitar arrangement of Calace's Moto perpetuo, recorded in 2007 in a Shanghai hotel lounge:

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There is also the pulse effect where the less experienced fiddlers feel that the beat is slightly in front of them, so they speed up - to catch up.
So the others speed up etc.

Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...

This rolls tomorrow, Sunday 3/10, at 8pm Eastern. We revisit the tunes from my "Tailwind" album.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMCZzERmgM

Pretty nice "freebie." Though, the couple comments about Oliver letting him "play it for free," sounds like maybe he's not going to be keeping it? Also, the references to "Loar specs," but it also...

Um, yeah, you tuned your what which way? :confused:

There is a musical reason for that though. C, A, G, E and D are the only keys with open string, first position chords. That is the sound expected and demanded of bluegrass guitar. I can play in...

I wish I could remember the words of Pete Martin, something like, “there are no difficult keys, only unfamiliar ones.”

I'd say that prejudice comes from a few places (no order)

1. Ignorance of other ways to play something
2. Lacking the skills needed to do something another way
3. Lacking the confidence in ones...