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it can be either, or both. very rarely does it start with a chord progression. or a riff for that matter.

songwriting is indeed a skill you can learn and get better at. It's like anything else, it...

copyright only applies to performance for profit. Either for the benefit of the venue's or the performer's wallet. A front porch for fun doesn't ping the meter.

I'm going to put on my flame suit for a few minutes and say some stuff that a few folks are going to take issue with. That's ok. It'd be nice if they would actually think for a minute about stuff,...

Stop making sense. Next you'll be saying that the passive-agressive "I'm sure that others will be along to reply soon, but while you wait I did a search for you so you can read up" type responce...

I don't sell instruments. Well, I've sold one strat in the past 25 years but that's it. It'd be like selling children.

One is never enough. The only proper number of instruments has very specific...

My bass player and went for our weekend Kau Kau lunch and then headed over to Dusty Strings to see what was new since we'd hit Emerald City before lunch...

Saw a mandolin by a Japanese Luthier...

legend has it that the band would hide Eddie's amp, or cut the cord off, or whatever they thought they could get away with to keep him from soloing. Not that he couldn't, he could play like an angel....

way back when I was an undergrad working for my MUCH, I had to memorize stacks of repertoire. It was somewhat daunting to get an hour's worth or better of solo music down for the twice a semester...

add one more to the BC don't make much difference club.
I've found that thickness and shape mean more than material just as long as it's not made of metal or something with a relatively low...

depends on wether you want to play octave mandolin or tenor guitar.

That's not a wiseguy answer, they are two very different instruments. And it's all subjective.

sampler 2 is in the mail.

The instrument side of the business is staying, the "lifestyle" side is being shuffled off.

sorry, forgot the OP asked for tab. easy enough to add the tab. A couple clicks of the mouse and just like magic a tab score is right there....

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PDF of the mando tab attached above.
let me know if doesn't open for you, I can email it if it doesn't work

camera mike>youtube video compression>computer speakers=/= "I can totally judge the tonal qualities of these two instruments".

I don't know about you, but I'm not going to judge either one of...

when classical was all the rage they did... Even in the middle of a piece. It wasn't until the late 19th/ early 20th centuries that audiences started to be "hushed" and it really wasn't until after...

No. Make some noise, sing along, clap, dance, stomp, drink whisky, have a good time while we play. Enjoy the show.

I grabbed a few pics to show what I'm talking about:

you can see here how the string drops through the tailpiece from top to bottom; the string doesn't exit the tailpiece body through the front...

I've got a fat bodied mandolin and a zouk built by Jim. Both are well built, simple instruments. Both sound pretty good with a nice balanced tone across the courses and up to the dusty end. I won't...

I live in Cap Hill as well, closest decent lessons are going to be at Dusty Strings. Which as you know is about an hour away by public transport. You can pretty much walk there in that time if you're...

solid vrs. lam matters most with the soundboard. That's not to say that the back doesn't matter, just that the soundboard matters a whole lot more. What the laminate is made up of matters much less...

An old band I played guitar in back east used to play a club that was located in an old New York Central freight house. The main line was less than 10 feet off the back of the stage. Whenever the...

squeaksticks would be the clarinets. Evil things.

them sliphorns were over my right shoulder, behind the squeaksticks and the baboons...

guess I'm the odd one out. Not a bad take on the tune,, but it didn't catch me. I don't feel any need to listen again. To each his own so they say.

Bass extensions aren't new, The guys sitting...