According to his Mel Bay book, Jethro Burns seemed to be a big proponent of using and exercising the pinky.
According to his Mel Bay book, Jethro Burns seemed to be a big proponent of using and exercising the pinky.
When I took up playing Irish tenor banjo, I found out the hard way that it is imperative to use the pinky. In the style of fingering on the TB, the pinky basically becomes the ring finger for the...
Thanks for bringing this up...I was about to ask about it. I believe it was German Jewish immigrants who came to South Louisiana in the mid 1800s and brought along these accordions and sold them...
wish you the best! I love my #68 I got back in December. It has truly changed my previous prejudice against the A/N style mandolin.
I recently got "A Smokey Mountain Christmas for Mandolin" by Steve Kaufman. Its looks to be pretty good in that it has a fairly simple/traditional melody version and then an intermediate Bluegrassy...