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I had blast getting John Reischman to join my band The Slocan Ramblers for some twin mandos on Stoney Creek. Check out his solo, damn!

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Here is another one man jam (boy I can't wait to pick with my band again...) on Fisher's Hornpipe. Hope y'all are staying safe and warm out there!


https://youtu.be/TCmL0X6OCMc

Hi all,

I just wanted to share a very happy story with you, and it's really only happy because of the help of this wonderful community here on Mandolin Cafe!

Earlier last year our shop was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62STufC_EFY

I bought the Kindle versions of the standard Real Books, because they ate jpegs and I can enlarge as needed. An application called iGigPro lets you create your own library from pdfs or jpegs. A handy...

Still a work in progress, and the mandolin was a little stiff that day, but I hope you enjoy it!


https://youtu.be/kNC-Vg1FpbQ

there's a lot of them! I like The New Real Book by Sher Music Co. There are 3 volumes. They also publish other cool fakebooks("The Latin Fakebook")and tutorials( "Serious Jazz Practice Book, Drop 2...

I have the first three volumes of the Real Book, and one of the Scher Music books, the New Real Book vol. 2.

There are six volumes of the original Real Book, I believe. There are also books of...

I highly recommend Barry’s weekly online classes, one for harmony and one for improvisation. 1 1/2 hours each. Best $10 I spend weekly.

I’ve been doing them since mid May and have well over 60...

For myself, I have come to believe "slippery" picks is an issue solved by improving picking and pick/hold technique. As a rank neophyte my experience is that all playing woes will solve themselves by...

I am not sure that too many "session" type videos exist out there for Andrew Marlin's solo effort tunes off Buried in a Cape...so I am sharing this session we filmed at this past year's Green...

My go-to closed chord shapes are these (given for a root of A -- shift them along the fretboard for other root notes):

A: 2-2-4-x
Am: 2-2-3-x
A7: 2-2-4-3
Adim: 2-1-3-x
Aaug: 2-3-4-x

These...

Del McCoy was great Friday night at Old Settlers Music Fest last month...night closed out by Shiny Ribs. Doesn't get much better.

The Air10's are pretty decent. I've heard them, and checked them out, and at under $400 they are well worth the money. The QSC K10's and Yamaha's (DXR's) are certainly a step up in overall quality (I...

spl for the dbr's is much higher (129 vs 121), it's the louder speaker regardless of wattage.

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It was totally on me that it fell, and I wasn't expecting it to be a warranty issue, but they made that call, in writing, twice. The point of my post was that it got sent back to me twice...

dbr-10's are a budget speaker, noticeably less clarity than a DXR to my ears. I love them because of light weight, and it is my goto for an onstage monitor. But for FOH clarity I would use a better...

Behringer powered speakers are very good values. I use a pair of 8" speakers for monitors, but they fill a decent sized room. Well under $200 each.

Well that was surely one of the musical highlights of my year! Just a terrific show!

Two sets. One microphone. Just the right amount of banter and spontaneity to give it a 'living room' feel while...

Hello everyone! My name is Kyle and I work at D'Addario on the Fretted product development and management team. I drove the launch of our new monel mandolin sets in 2018. I'm glad to hear that a...

https://youtu.be/bcYLJWIvNnc

Found this group recently and wanted to share. Great stuff!

I remember having these same struggles with losing focus and weapons of self-distraction. One of my fiddle students summed the problem up nicely: "My biggest obstacle is myself."

Here are some...

A couple of albums that many of us grew up on are:

The Dillards, Wheatstraw Suite, &
NGDB, Will The Circle Be Unbroken.

Hi folks, I try not to post shameless advertising here too often, but as it's been a few years... :)

Here are a few new completions I thought I'd share. I had two different sets of matching...

Start hanging out with fiddlers earlier and more often.