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  1. Re: Strategies (or contraptions) to tame the flying fingers?

    Exhibit A of flying pinkyitis (and one of the most unflattering angles of myself I've yet seen). Keep your eye on the pinky:


    https://youtu.be/Z8xE84PiXQ0
  2. Re: Libraries are down, abcnotation and tunearch.org

    These are working:
    https://www.tunesource.net/tunes
    http://www.folktunefinder.com/

    This one is down
    http://abcnotation.com/search

    tunearch's search engine is not working...
  3. Re: Libraries are down, abcnotation and tunearch.org

    I can get tunearch.org to come up, the other appears to be down.
  4. Re: Strategies (or contraptions) to tame the flying fingers?

    (cannot resist such a straight lead). "flying unruly fingers?" - well, play fast and you will have no time to flail them about. works for me. chicken and egg? make it work for you! but yes, there is...
  5. Re: Strategies (or contraptions) to tame the flying fingers?

    A few thoughts - hope it helps :)

    1. Play major scales but do not lift your fingers on the way up the scale - if your playing an A major scale for example, your 1st finger plays the A on the 2nd...
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    Re: Thanks Scott!

    Forgive me if I plagarize myself from another recent thread, responding to the OP's thanks for helpfulness ...
  7. Sierra Ferrell: lots of mandolin content

    She's amazing and so is her band.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spHoixofvso

    spHoixofvso
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    Re: I miss the Classified Guitar posts....

    You're not alone. I never go there because I found my "keeper" the first time out buying a mandolin after doing a ton of research, and being fortunate enough to have a budget for a good handmade...
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    Re: I miss the Classified Guitar posts....

    Fortunately for us, there's plenty of guitar-porn still out there!
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    Re: I miss the Classified Guitar posts....

    The site owner removed them for good reasons, and explained all this when the removal occurred. Use the search feature if you’re curious. And the OP, Billy Packard, is aware of this.

    Editing to...
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    Re: I miss the Classified Guitar posts....

    I see I'm again in a minority -- I check the forum daily, but almost never look at the classifieds.
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    Re: I miss the Classified Guitar posts....

    Think of the time you save not drooling over guitars you’re not going to buy…
    Take a stroll outside in the sunshine, smell the flowers, greet small woodland creatures…

    : )

    Kirk
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    Voyageur & French Canadian Folk Songs

    I was doing some research on trying to find some French Canadian Folk Songs since we will be spending the summer in Quebec Province and yes, I did study some French in my education but sadly, can...
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    Re: Peghead Nation Video Courses

    Yes, and I agree also with Eastern music. My family lived in Greece for 3 yrs when I was young and I loved the odd time signatures, 5/4, 7/8, 9/8. One of my favorite groups is the Bulgarian State...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Rummaging through some old hard disks recently and came across this mandolin-&-guitar arrangement of Calace's Moto perpetuo, recorded in 2007 in a Shanghai hotel lounge:

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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    I'm just not trying to play all the notes, and in a way, fiddlers do the same.

    Left hand speed can be the higher the less force is neccessary, and fiddlers have considerably less force to apply,...
  17. Re: "Jacob Collier reinvents the guitar"

    It's not such a big jump from cittern tunings some people use.

    For my octave mandolin I tune ADae, and in the past I have taken the top and bottom strings off an electric guitar and tuned it like...
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    Re: Etude Op.45 Nr.4 by Franz Wohlfahrt

    Toomas, do you know the book Wohlfahrt Violin Studies Arranged for Mandolin by Jennifer Case? ~o)
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Here's my .02. Play a tune you know with your left hand not pressing hard enough to get clear notes. You'll soon find out how little pressure it takes to get a clean note as you'll find some notes...
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    Etude Op.45 Nr.4 by Franz Wohlfahrt

    My transcription of Etude Op.45 Nr.4 by Franz Wohlfahrt (1833-1884), originally written for violin but also useful for mandolin. In the preface to Etudes Op.45 the maestro says:
    If practiced...
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Regarding trying to keep up with anyone playing anything, everyone is at a certain level in their playing, so there's that; yes, keep practicing.

    But the other thing is what arrangement of a...
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Busy weekend. I've been taking note of everyone's excellent advice, but haven't had a chance to weigh in.

    I'm in a learning environment, so there are mixed abilities among all the instruments,...
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    An afterthought: To be fair to fiddlers, a fiddler might work for some time at mastering a complex tune or medley, using sophisticated techniques, then go to a "session" to find that fellow musicians...
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    My perspectives come from first being a fiddler and then going over to mainly mandolin. All of the above advice looks good to me. However the differences give each of he instruments different...
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    Re: Has anyone played in Ireland Jam Sessions?

    Well, if you leave the ITM and Scottish sessions and go to a jazz jam session, you'll need to be able to improvise!:grin:

    But your point is well taken in terms of the musical context involved....
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