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I wish my cat would sleep in the case instead of climbing on my legs as soon as I tune up, then digs her claws in if I do too much bouncing. Still I will miss her terribly when her time comes. I hope...

I think I found this here in another context but it was the one thing that really made arpeggios come alive for me, because I found this exercise so much fun! (Your mileage will vary.) Now the first...

One of the best things about playing music is that you can't think while playing. Sometimes after a good jam I have to remind myself what I'm worried about.
On the other hand, it is hard not to...

Whenever I get kind of stuck, in a slump, I come back here for the cure. It works!

What should I say to people who when I tell them I play the mandolin say, "Oh is that like a ukulele?" It makes me homicidal. This has happened three or four times. Certain "friends" like to bait me...

If you get it you know it. :cool:

I'm back!
I had to be in Seattle and so, as one does, I decided to check out a music store, and Dusty Strings showed a good selection of mandolins on its website. IRL, I was warmly welcomed and...

Chapter 1: My husband heard me say enough times that I'd love to play mandolin (I had a guitar I played folky fingerstyle) and he gave me a Rogue from Musicians Friend for Christmas. I was hooked...

I can play it outside my house without totally choking and bursting into tears.:grin:

Too often I am the only representative of my gender at the jam (OT, BG). I have asked the women who sometimes come why they don't come more often. Their reasons involve other obligations: relatives...

Hijacking cat thread with baby.

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I'd been trying to work with a metronome, with clicks on 2 and 4 or 1 and 3 and ended up totally lost and frustrated and wondering what was the point. I kept Googling How to use a metronome and...

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Me before I figured out how to make a chop A without cranking my wrist. Having fun anyway.:mandosmiley:

Thanks to all these many replies. I have been educated!
I think the emandos I saw were being played like tiny guitars and that's why they sounded like electric guitars. I can see why playing a tiny...

"Dare to suck" will go with me to every jam from now on.

Brilliant site!

The only reason I pick up my metronome is to throw it across the room.:mad:

I get paid in pies. Their deliciousness has not decreased.

My wife doesn't understand me "jokes" are funny only if you are an old man or a lesbian. Or apparently from Oz.

When people, including me, talk about their mandos and playing they get this shiny-eyed crazy happy look. I dont think anyone but another mandolin player understands the kind of pure, unadulterated...

I sat in on a jam for more than a year before I figured out how to lead a song successfully, but once I did, it has become easy to add more songs and very much fun!
What I learned:
1) Learn a...