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How do you set your amp?

How do you set the effects you use?

What about strings?

Or picks?

Jim richters books are good

Mel bays mandolin beginners is good too

I like wah, envelope filters and overdrive.

Once I saw Sam bush do laps in seven on YouTube, I had to get one. So I got in touch with Ted Eschliman who sold me a JBovier ELS. I love the tones I can get, and it makes me play a bit differently....

It’s interesting, isn’t it? At least 10 iconic instruments - Lloyd loars, the l5 the 400, the Les Paul, the 335, the firebird. Let’s not forget p 90s and paf pickups, plus acoustic instrument...

Victor Wooten says if you make a mistake play it again. He leans into mistakes. And the idea is that you notice it negatively the first time but the second time you’re used to it. And the third time...

I had lessons from Mike. Improved my playing infinitely. His style is exactly as it should be. You may have to get used to the sound, like Monroe. But listen to his masterpiece ‘rotten taters'.
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Just speaking generally we live in a golden age of instrument manufacturing so there’s a very good chance that a cheap instrument would sound great. I have a few of them.

What a lovely instrument!

V picks make a really thick pick 8.5 mm. You don’t have to hold it so tightly. Pricey, but you only need one and if it solves your isssue, then I’d venture to suggest it’s worth it?

No...

Sam Bush's octave technique does this. You can sort of hear the 'click' of the muted strings, but that gives a bit more to the notes.

Wes Montgomery on guitar, likely where Sam evolved from did...

Wishing him the best birthday from probably the worst student he ever had.

There are over 1300 genres. How many of them are jargon, marketing and bs, I don’t know, but I’d guess somewhere around 1285. Wagon wheel is not overplayed here in Aus. I get a bit annoyed at...

I love the mandolin on ‘ doubting my ethical and spiritual ritualistic practice.'

The f style oval hole is something isn’t it? Just beautiful.

You’re wrong. It has been that way since before YouTube. Granted it may not sound better, but it’s easier to get the rhyth,m right, particularly if you’re new to the form. Or if you’re out of...

On the old jazzmando site, Ted Eschliman gave the best comparison description I’ve read. I’ve linked it below.

https://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/000141.shtml

Rule 1 of music: No Pain is No Pain. (play ergonomically)
Rule 2 - we play music, not work it.
Rule 3 - if it sounds good it is good.

Use a capo if you want. I don't but that usually because...

I have two ovals - an Epiphone masterbilt mm40l and a Washburn M1. For blues, Irish and Italian and jazz and folk they are superb. The F holes can do some of those well, but like the ovals don’t do...

Last week, I flew home to regional NSW to care for my ailing father. (87, various health issues... it's a thing. I think my sister and I are just grateful for however much time we have left with...

The cruddy instruments a lot of the blues guys used, particularly in the early days, would shock a lot of you. Sure, B B and muddy used nice Gibson and fenders. But look at hound dog Taylor. It took...

I bought mine at Sam ash in Nashville. It needed some fret work - I think it had been hanging there a fairly long time - but I find it a great mandolin.

The oval vs F thing is mainly aesthetic....

Listen to great pentatonic players - not just mando, but Sam Bush is a great place to start on mando.

But, Eric Clapton, B B king. King Curtis. Charlie Parker. Bonnie Raitt., Derek Trucks.

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One of my favourite music stories is the involvement of Roy Acuff, whose agent talked him into going. The agent said, look, just take your fiddle, listen, and if you don’t like it, you don’t even...

Boss Tu-5. Tunes every instrument I have from mandolin through to five string bass