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    Re: Left hand position

    The light came on for me watching the Northfield videos with Mike Marshall and Emory Lester. Great music and up close video. What did I notice? They move/rotate their hand around quite a bit. They...
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    Re: Sold my Collings and got a Pava

    No fiddle? No banjo? No cannon of a dreadnaught? You haven't put it to the test. But in reality, others should be listening to others and adjusting their volume. I can dream, can't I?

    Don't take...
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    Re: Sold my Collings and got a Pava

    My experience was similar, so I sold both a Collings and a Pava and got a Passernig kind of like this one:

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/148347#148347
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    Re: Sold my Collings and got a Pava

    Interesting. I had a similar experience with a Weber Yellowstone. I bought it at Wintergrass. Loved the sound, but after playing it for a few months it never really got comfortable to play - there...
  5. Re: Close harmony with a mixture of male/female voices- strategie

    Practice.
  6. Thread: Humidifier ?

    by jeff_75
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    Re: Humidifier ?

    Could be. If the weather was the only variable that changed before the buzz started, humidity, or a rapid change thereof, is a likely culprit.

    Weather here in VA swings wildly. Case in point,...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    I am thinking any up-the-neck discussion should include the aonzo scales:

    http://www.mandozine.com/techniques/scales/aonzo_family_scales.html
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    "If you try to stuff too much into your brain all at once, you'll likely fail."

    Already there are enough suggestions here to keep one quite busy. I'd approach this by looking for what piques my...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Here's a cover I recorded with some friends
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-QgnYc6usM
  10. Thread: Darkest pick

    by onassis
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    Re: Darkest pick

    I'm a big fan of Curt Mangan strings, and I can unreservedly recommend their Monels. I used them for about a year on my Northfield. I recently purchased a set of D'Addario Monels to try out on a...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    This might be of use in getting the patterns of the mandolin ingrained.
    http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/entry.php?528-Revised-Guide-to-Doublestops
  12. Thread: Darkest pick

    by David L
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    Re: Darkest pick

    For decades I have exclusively used Jim Dunlop Jazztones large round tip guitar picks (dOD 207). They are very thick with a round point and nice side contour. They are the "darkest" (most...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    do a quick search here and look for pete martin’s mandolin improv from scratch series and his chord tone scale stuff. it is excellent
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    Would this chart help you?

    When I was learning how to play the mandolin, my mother made me learn how to read notes. Though I really “can’t” read notes now (well, I can, but it takes to long), I...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    Lots of great stuff here. One thing I'll say that I believe that may sound sacrilegious - don't worry about theory!. I think some of us theory geeks get too easily caught up in it and try to...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    I learned to play from a real " by ear" musician, my dad. He had no idea what he was doing, no theory knowledge at all. If you asked why he did a certain thing musically he would tell you that was...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    Heartily agree! Even now that I can somewhat quickly figure what any note is, that's not the way many of us play.

    What I DID initially memorize (even if it was on guitar!) are the notes at each...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    Take tunes and songs you know well and play them up an octave or even just starting in higher positions. Take your time working these out and see where the same notes reside on the upper frets. Work...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    For me, it's been a long journey to get to where I feel reasonably competent maneuvering about the fretboard, so my first piece of advice is "Give it some time". I've been going at it for 12+ years...
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    Re: Total Newbie Looking for advise

    Hi, misterg, Welcome to MC!

    Well, there are different kinds of Newbies and with your experience you are the kind that knows in advance that there is a learning curve and diligent practice will...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Following a resolution to play more music and learn more tunes in 2019, I'm making at least a modest dent in my to-do list.

    Ugv3Mci7y84
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    Re: strumming help

    * There is a sticky thread at top of Forum Software Support for requesting name change

    I found this useful along the way.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUCHfqMXGCo
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    Re: Silly pick question but....

    I know it stretches the imagination, but either side will be fine. Kinda hard to explain but geometry is geometry.
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    Re: Left Wrist Placement

    Here's a clip from Mike Marshall demonstrating what I think is the "standard" approach, basically treating the mandolin like a fiddle. Not thumb on the back of the neck like a guitar, more angled....
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    Re: Thankful for this forum

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