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It's not an ironclad rule, but it's a convention in Irish trad sessions that mandolins play melody, not accompaniment.

I think the main reason is that the mandolin pitch range is exactly the same...

Hi Doug - The 'taste' thingy is total crap !!!. I'm going to embark on a diet of hot/spicy & Pickled types of food. The ONLY things that have tasted 'real' so far are pickled foods such as Pickled...

Hi folks - I'm very deeply appreciative of the fact that our illustrious leader Scott T.,hasn't closed this thread.

I've been a member for 13 years & as you might see,i've posted a fair few...

Hi Rick - I hope that you enjoy your Weber as much as i enjoyed mine. They're terrific mandolins by any standard. Unfortunately,the type of Cancer that i have is pretty severe,so holding on to any...

Hi all - Tomorrow,29th Feb.,i have an appointment with a cancer specialist at one of our top North of Engalnd hospitals. I expect to be told that i'll be having a course of Chemotherapy. How long...

When I'm learning a new 'lick' or 'run', or whatever, I always picture the major scale on the fingerboard, and after listening to the lick multiple times, try to approximate it with my index finger...

Having attempted to train quite a few people in bridge fitting, I can tell you that the big mistake is not using enough downward force.

I too use sand paper mostly for showing the high spots, then...

First of all you need to take a look at it with string tension on the bridge. A top will flex slightly under tension. If it's still not making contact, what I do is slacken the strings enough to...

I can't see the surface of my fretboard while playing...
I suppose it's for helping your music partners?

Read 'Guide to Doublestops' very thoroughly. I promise that you'll benefit.

Keep it, play it, enjoy it.

The other side of the coin and coming from the vintage guitar world, you can't always pick your options, after the fact. Often, working in a vintage guitar shop, we would hear, "hey this guitar sure...

Neck size and neck profile is very much a personal preference on any string instrument. Different strokes for different folks. You state that you prefer a smaller profile guitar neck. But some people...

this has probably been posted here before, but its interesting, and I just found it.

neat history of times at Gibson thru Ren Ferguson who lived thru it.
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Improvisation is composition without the luxury of editting

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


Learn The Melody
Learn the Harmony (harmonies)...

Yes, the key...FOR ME...was learning the system, the way SG teaches them in a system (she calls it series and neighborhoods) makes it easily transposable...you just have to know how they work - like...

These are passing notes, called such because they are not in the chord, but are sounded against the chord as the melody passes through them. You can do the same thing with your double stops, you can...

Check out Sharon Gilchrist on PegHead Nation, I attended a camp she was teaching at and she has a very nice system of learning and using double stops. DS eluded me for awhile and although Pete...

In "Jimmy Brown," if you're playing in what I guess is called first position (near the nut) in G, and you wanted to harmonize the B note (on the words "name is"), you'd play the G note above, and...

You don't know what you don't know. People who have poor pitch, cannot tell they are off pitch. People with very poor rhythm will not sense that they are off. The recording thing helps a lot IF...

But seriously, learning how to work a chord progression using double stops is the easiest approach I've found to playing in less familar keys. The mandolin fretboard is absolutely symmetrical, so...

The bluegrass box idea (movable patterns) is elaborated on at greater length in a book/cd combo by Niles Hokkanen called “Bluegrass Up The Neck.” It explains the most common double stop and scale...

I practice things I know in all those keys using the open strings...B is a tough key but after awhile one gets used to it. Just take a tune you know and run it thru those keys, after awhile you...

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