Get your mando a good set-up.
A $3000 mandolin with a bad set-up is a monster! :)
A cheap mandolin with a good set-up will be a friend to you.
There’s a great free book on DIY set-ups by Rob...
Get your mando a good set-up.
A $3000 mandolin with a bad set-up is a monster! :)
A cheap mandolin with a good set-up will be a friend to you.
There’s a great free book on DIY set-ups by Rob...
I will go revisit the video that Jim Garber recommends, but I'll toss in one possibility for a beginner mandolin. A dear friend, an accomplished professional violinist, came by the other day to meet...
This link may be of use to some. I couldn't find a list that met my needs so I put this together.
http://www.rainierpickinparty.com/nw-festivals/index.html
Hi, I live in Florence and am always up to jamming, have a large music room and play guitar and mandolin some, (learning) mainly fiddle tunes old time etc.
I am definitely looking to play with others more often. I am out on the coast often chasing salmon, halibut, and tuna often between May and September. I get that far south at least twice each fall.
Another contact in Medford
https://www.crystalreeves.net/about
And contact Mark at Cripple Creek Music in Ashland about other mandolin centric events....541-482-9141.. he is a guitarist and...
Helen - if you ever get up around Grants Pass, there's a pretty good jam at Wild River Pub on 3rd Thursdays. Lasts from 6-8pm or so.
Helen - you're going to be very greatly missed here in Sequim! We've so much enjoyed our jam times with you and watching your rapid progress. Keep that great-grandpa's mandolin busy once you're all...
I hope you find some cool folks to jam with down there 🤓
Sorry to see you leaving our great state! I live in Auburn, just a plug for the PNW!
This happens to me as well. A couple of thoughts. One, progress in any learning isn't linear. You leap ahead, slide back, inch forward again, stall out, leap ahead, etc. It's all part of the process....
I agree, this can be a large part of it. I remember having moments where I would vent to my wife that I'm getting worse, and she disagreed. It's just that I started expecting more out of myself, or...
Lots of assumptions here, like you're properly warming up and playing in 45-60 minute sessions with breaks, and instrument properly setup. Is this a teacher giving you 2 new tunes a week? Mine...
It could well be that you are not getting worse but your discernment is getting better.
Try not to overthink it. You can think yourself into a corner. Just play. And then play some more later....
I've experienced similar. Can be caused by a variety of issues:
1) trying to play too fast
2) tired muscles
3) tired brain
4) trying to learn too many new tunes whereas previous tunes not quite...
Winter never ends
Mandolin makes the sun shine
Spring is on the way
Music in my head
Finds it's way to my fingers
Joy is what it brings
Hold your mandolin, play and dance and be merry, music heals the soul.
We here in the Mandolin Café community can barely contain ourselves when these great "true mando find" stories hit so sorry for the avalanche. We're used to it but for a newbie the sheer quantity of...
I absolutely LOVE when old instruments are given a new life. They give back 10 times to the player/owner, as I am sure you are experiencing. Even better when there is family history...a real...
Wow! A Gibson mandolin, set up by Gail Hester, lessons from Pete Martin...what a string of great events! Enjoy!
Kirk
Portland, OR
Welcome to the forum, hjforsh...
Well, you just missed one of the best gatherings in the Pacific NW--including some great mandolin workshops--a couple weeks ago at Wintergrass...
Catch it next...
Thanks! That is a beautiful mandolin Helen, enjoy it!
That's a spectacular looking top
Helen jump in with both feet when Gail gets your mandolin squared away! You will never regret the time you spend with your Grandfather's mandolin!
Beautiful mando, coming back for another 100 years of playing time! :mandosmiley: