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Suggestion #1: To quote King Arthur and his knights from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "Run away!!"

Suggestion #2: If you're not ready to run away, fill the channel with the stiffest piece of...

Wait, you're having AI write your forum posts? :disbelief:

Couldn't that be construed as taking a turn toward the dark side? :whistling:

Good points, especially when it comes to forumspeak.....:whistling:

I think on this forum we have a better than average grasp on language basics, especially when compared to other music and...

http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/TipsTricks/SteinwayKit/steinway.html
The Steinway touchup kit.

Here's a lovely slide that I first learned on the concertina from Cormac Begley. I was messing around with it this morning in a few different keys and discovered I really like it in C minor on the...

This song was my introduction to the Allman Brothers. Here is a version with Dickey front and center.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmetEMv7SfQ

That depends on how you were taught to read standard notation...which in the Italian tradition was a way to sing before you were ever given an instrument.

So I disagree, learning to sight-sing...

At 67, with 50 years of mandolin playing behind me, I'm glad to be counted among the "young people who misunderstand the mandolin".
Fortunately for me, I stopped worrying about other people's...

How old is this "too old" that we are talking about? Do I need to be worried about it????

There is nothing "new fangled" about music theory; it has been around for 1000s of years.

Sure, there...

Here is the sound I strive for:


https://youtu.be/Ce9Jtl9D6FQ?si=8HWQHQEsNjBoFjvw




I REALLY like that tiny bit of breakup at the beginning of his hard attacked notes that then turns into...

To paraphrase, Matt F said something like you think about it until you don't need to anymore (its internalized). To me that sounds more productive than to have never, or only minimally, thought about...

I don't understand what people are arguing about. The OP has made clear that he's right, and no one else's experience and knowledge matters. All he wants is a discussion in which everyone defers to...

Video update: FF holes are now 98% complete. I won't take out significantly more material, just refine the edges for the visual aspect. This process with James' test rig has been such an eye opener,...

Hi there. Just happened across this post. To be clear, we do not wind our own strings. We work with progressional outfits that make strings as their specialty. We offer our preferred strings sets on...

Back to Back was remastered(hi-Def) and made available by Acoustic Disc as a download. Outtakes are included..the entire CD's worth! said alternate takes are not problematic but rather contain...

I fought with the difficulty of adapting my mandolin knowledge to mandola for several years. In fact, there are probably a million and half bitching and moaning posts here on the Cafe about it.
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Happy Friday,
I'm working through recording my favorite piece of music, Vivaldi's Four Seasons. All mandolin parts are played on my Flatiron 1-N and the viola and portions of the cello parts on my...

Ethan, Rick - you’re both added to the list.

Always good to get different perspectives on triplets, quadruplets, quin… and then make up your own mind. Here’s one:


https://youtu.be/FXnQ5l-Qo1A?feature=shared
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I believe that there are many apps for flash cards that kendor could find, to answer the original question. I believe the best would be one that requires you to develop your own questions. The task...

Learning the piano keyboard, even just as a music theory learning tool, is very useful. One advantage over the mandolin fingerboard is that each discrete pitch has only a single place to play them....

As a fairly new mandolin player, Aaron's suggested approach using the mandolin keyboard has worked well for me on swing jazz tunes. When I started out I did try a flashcard approach and memorizing a...

Here's a quick little improv from the first night I got my Newport tenor. Definitely not a perfect performance but I absolutely love that guitar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNswk-nEgAQ

For the sake of the ironic humor, I have to point out that it's a genetic proofreading tic. :grin:

Not much to add to this but this is why I like listening to electric mandolin, when there's someone that really knows how to get one set-up correctly and has the right kind of musical sensibilities...