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As we head into the colder months, a lot of students have been wanting to really focus their practice time. So I wrote up a list of a few primary strategies I've used over the years.

I'd love to...

I think I have seen some other videos of them, but your post had me go look again. Nice sounding tune, great sounding mando, whatever it is!


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I'm into spirals and curves:

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I have gotten to the point that, while I still have a healthy ambition, I am very comfortable where I am at. I only work at what interests me, to meet immediate goals. My commitment to playing could...

Picking hand is your voice, fretting hand is your vocabulary. That's the way I've always pictured it. And if you have a strong, flexible, wide range of voice, you don't need a lot of vocabulary.

This is the first and second in my new "no flash" series I call Possum Head mandolins. A style only.
Stained, sealed with shellac and two or three coats of truoil. Some mandolins I can sell for...

If anyone here in Australia is caught drinking Fosters we immediately call the men in white coats.
Some of your banjo player's behaviour sounds spookily Syd Barrett like.

I apologize Jamie, my fault, its just hard hearing the same nationalistic arguement sometimes.

Eastmans are great and work nicely for all styles of music IMO. The newer ones have really balanced...

Scientifically speaking, there is none, or perhaps a slight increase in stiffness to mass ratio because of evaporation of hemicellulose, but if that ratio in one piece of wood started out better than...

One thing I do to synchronize my left and right hand timing is a simple exercise:

- Fret a note -- which one doesn't matter at this point, maybe 2nd fret on the A string.
- Pick the note - try to...

Ok. The "3rd FFcP C, C#, G, Ab" means that you are working on the third FFcP pattern, thus the "3rd FFcP". As you probably know the 3rd FFcP is the one that starts with the ring finger. So play the...

I think it's more of a mental thing than a physical one. I used to teach a lot and this was a common problem. My advice was to play something like a closed position (no open notes) scale very slowly...

I'm in the UK and I never quite understand what "Bluegrass" really is.

I try and learn stuff from my Sam Bush DVDs but is this "proper" Bluegrass or fiddle tunes?

I've heard some incredible...

Back around 1980 I graduated from Berklee, where my main focus was on learning theory and composition. I could play OK but my tone and technique were "not happening", and I couldn't figure out why I...