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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Happy accidents happen :))
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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,...
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    Re: Tam Lin

    That G buzz gives it exactly the tube-amp compression Led Zeppelin would have aimed for :cool: and you're not alone with this..
  4. Re: Overcoming halted progress and frustration

    I have noticed two things:
    #1 - when practising stubbornly on the same faulty phrase, the brain can learn how to do it wrong and stick to it.
    #2 - when learning a new tune, the brain overwrites...
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    I tend to move around difficult tunes by practising other, easier tunes in between. This gives me a chance to slowly ooze into the castle of challenge by using back doors I found on the easy detours...
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    Re: Arthritis

    I have rheumatoid arthritis and going fine on MTX, but the pain is caused by an inflammation which must be adressed separately, in my case by injection of corticoid meds directly into the affected...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Yes. Longscale, that is, aka "plectrum guitar", but tuned GDAE.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Just in case you're hungry...

    https://youtu.be/OmSFNptUi24?si=G1trnJAaUT0lVbJX
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    Re: The Sleeping Tune (Gordon Duncan)

    An older one of mine

    https://youtu.be/P1D1KfJSwEo?si=cjbYkoXFXqQzxvMe
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    Re: What did you ask Santa to bring you?

    On Earth Peace.
    Now that may be more than Santa can provide from his factory on that ever-dwindling polar ice shield...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    in our sessions, we extend the last chorus with
    ...and whiskey on a Monday,
    and whiskey on a Tuesday,
    ...
    ...
    and whiskey on a Sunday.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    A somewhat labyrinthine reel set with a faint hint at Christmas.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8coLcSxx8
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Those wooden dancers very much remind me of the song "Whiskey on a Sunday" - I have never seen anything like them before.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Man, Dagger, what breakfast was that? :disbelief:
    I'll have what he's having.
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    Re: Worm holes

    Kate Thompson has the explanation - good read and telling you where all those things go. Tír na nÓg is littered with socks and (I assume) picks.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Hot town, summer in the city, what better to do than to celebrate the advent of hornets (and thus the demise of wasps) with a beer...


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VODBJJwWJg
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    the first one where I use a midi controller keyboard to emulate non-GBOMs but pretend to play the real thing...


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0QO-stKtms
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    Re: I can’t find The Blues in my Mandolin

    Waking up in the morning and finding you've forgotten all you practised yesterday - that's all the Blues you'll get :cool:
  19. Re: Bringing my mandolin to a jam for the first time

    Making a fool of yourself is a neccessary phase on the road to excellence, so there is no need of being scared of an event that will happen as sure as sunrise. Everybody had this, and we are all...
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    Re: Should I bother?..

    Giving up defines the end of the game. You don't want to do that. You want to live up to your dreams if it's the last thing you do on earth.
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    Re: Gibson launches Certified Vintage Program

    This is from people who could sell you a road kill for a hat. Rephrased, it reads: Old neglected overpriced instruments should be bought from us, because so are we.
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    Re: 2,000-year-old Vietnamese instrument

    Re vocoder vs talkbox - technically, the talkbox is indeed nearer to that cat-in-mouth, the string replacing the tone source and tube in one.
    There might be yet another application combined with...
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    Re: 2,000-year-old Vietnamese instrument

    And thus the vocoder was invented...
    There is a technical suggestion in there on the origin of cat gut usage for violin strings, before the violin as such was invented, and cats were used instead.
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    Re: Am I Alone in This?

    Can someone put that picture of a Scot being tossed like a caber (fèileadh beag implied) out of my head? :))
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    Re: My pinky hates me now

    Your pinky couldn't be expecting to stay out of the job forever, could it? Just wait until you follow the call of the Octave Mandolin, and your pinky will thank you for preparing it in time.
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