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Song is I Truly Understand, recorded 1928 by "Shortbuckle" Roark and family.

Here's his version:

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My favorite version is Bruce Molsky's:

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Improvisation is composition without the luxury of editting

Here are some recommended steps for gradually leaning to play spontaneous breaks


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Learn the Harmony (harmonies)...

A tune I wrote for my dad.


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I notice that not much is happening by way of blues here, so I decided to start posting a blues or blues-related tune a week (allowing for "the best-laid plans of mice and men...") for blues...

Here’s me and my wife, with a pastor friend of ours on the guitar.

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Because I keep not getting something right embedding the YouTube video, here’s the direct link to it
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The second installment of the solo duets is a lovely waltz originally by David Grisman. While it appears simple, there are a lot of little grace notes and details in the sheet music that you have to...

Please allow me to offer a positive perspective on this program. As someone who Iives in the area where East Tennessee State University is located I’m surprised to see so much negativity about this...

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I play this tune at sessions and it always makes me want to bop around the room for sheer joy! It's been around in tune books since the late 18th century, is...

Here's me on mandolin doing Leather Britches. I just posted a video on here yesterday, so I hope this isn't too much too often. Let me know if I'm breaking decorum. Also, should I just make one...

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My Sterling Reverse Scroll - heavily renovated - nowhere near as nice looking as your Regal, and sounds a bit boxy, but I love it just the same


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Check this: http://www.lutherie.net/nuts.html

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For plain and wound strings.

Don't know what the weather is like in America, but here in Germany it's cool and cloudy. Tomorrow will be the official beginning of the summer season, and I thought, it might be nice to get at least...

Here's me with my new (to me, at least) Kentucky mandolin, had this great Dirk Powell song stuck in my head today so I figured I'd give it a go. I'm in GDAD for those wondering.

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Yes there is a 12th fret harmonic. My understanding is that, just like a guitar, you wan't the open string and the 12th fret harmonic to be as close to pitch as possible. Moving the bridge slightly...

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin

Maple has pretty much the same lateral stiffness whether cut tangentially or radially, quartered is more stable in width, and stability helps with structural integrity, so IMO, quartered is better,...

I understand what point daBlues is making, but I think what JeffD mentions is at least as relevant.

If I've scraped together $300 for an instrument by serious hard work and even then think it's...

Short version: saw a video with Don Stiernberg, and I want to know why it is so good.

Long version:

A couple of weeks ago, there was a thread by someone who was looking for country music...

This is an instrumental cover version of "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain", written by Fred Rose. I have recorded it as a trio of mandolin, tenor guitar and mandocello, keeping it very simple.
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Two words... JOHN PRINE

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I got the bug and ordered one. After a few weeks work the parts are now a mandolin in the white.

I modified a few things:
1) changed the binding from white to black,
2. replaced the plastic...

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These kids First Time Around played 3 songs this past Friday 1/30/15 at the Mountain Arts Center open jam in Prestonsburg, Ky.

They did an amazing job! In fact, they landed a gig opening up for...

I got pretty lucky about 9 years ago, when I was 12. He's a nice man, very down to earth. He doesn't forget how he got his beginnings, as a young kid playing with someone huge. He gave me the exact...

Marty can flat tear it up. Folks forget he got his start on the old mandolin. Love all those autographs; I recall reading somewhere that when he first got it, he showed it to Johnny Cash backstage...