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goodness, everybody on this are top shelf. Sam Bush playing mandolin and bass, quick glimpse of him holding a blonde mando(does he have a new axe?), Bela, Tony T, Michael on fiddle and as always is a...

I get that some folks may want to speak about their experiences playing guitar or watching videos of others playing guitar... but I am NOT ready to move on from that performance by Thile and Lau...

In old time circles, I've always heard it in G, similarly to how Bruce Molsky plays it: https://www.pegheadnation.com/featured-videos/studio/bruce-molsky-red-rocking-chair/

Outside of old time,...

Hense 1.4 heavy triangle comes in a few colors. Happy turtle, cream, and blue. https://www.thomannmusic.com/hense_plecs_picks.html. About 18.00 USD. Cannot tell any difference between it an the CT55,...

"Master Luthier" would be the next step up from "Pretty Good Luthier," or "Not Bad Luthier."

The very lightest ones, sets with 009 as the high E. As Jim said, strings like the
GHS A-240, the Dogal Calace RW-92b Dolce, etc.



Yeah, well put.:)

A couple of other things.

It's hard...

As far as the pawn one, if it is cheap enough and you are doing your own repairs, that will give you more of an education than anything any of us could tell you. However, the factory ones from the...

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

Hudmister, I agree. I like the look of ebony better. I can't tell any difference in sound or playability.

There's only mandolin in the first tune but it is pretty sweet. A great duo.


https://youtu.be/yeFcUbGW1gA

learn your dots or you never play complex music (release the penguins) https://lostinthecloud.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/faeries-aire.gif

more from John Stump here:...

I’ll confess I have not kept up with the Gibson genealogy.
My friend David Harvey is working away giving them a great name.
Beyond that I don’t really know what’s going on.

Billy

always been intrigued by the F5G Dave Harvey models.
a short time back TMS had an Adam Steffey signature model and i've always wanted to have one of those. never had one in hand but the few i've...

I never estimate or count hours, I'd probably give up beforehand if I did.

But when I finish I'll pull up a chair and sit for half an hour with a cup of tea and admire it, feeling happy and...

Here is some mandolin content as well. RIP David.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_8n_0jDFlo

Her post on facebook was very moving. I don't see how to post it here (too many photos, I think, not just one to which the text is attached) so go to her page. The pics are worth it. Here's her...

Pretty good live show with Jack Cooke on guitar & Del McCoury on banjo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_FJWn4WrMA&t=2s

I was a drummer (simi-pro) for years. I think everyone who plays music should play drums so that he/she can understand timing' how to lead, how to follow, how to count (yes, there's that word again)....

I think Victor Wooten has some great Youtube videos about breaking the beat down to its simplest form.

Grisman time has some distinct "funk" and Gypsy Swing elements, which involve syncopation,...

It's come up a few times, how to define "woodshedding," and I'm in the same camp as tmsweeney in Post #3 and jellwoo in Post #13. I believe the term refers to a concentrated, focussed, work-like...

I played mandolin before fiddle. I love both, but I do find the mandolin a lot easier to play decently than the fiddle. GDAE, the strings are tuned the same (at least until you decide to play your...

Now, now, banjo players are known for their sparkling white tooth.

Isn't it as simple as the fact that the tunes in question were originally composed/recorded/written/passed down for the fiddle, by fiddle players?

If it was good enough for Doc, it's good enough for me...

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At 0.17 Doc mentions that it is "really a fiddle tune" a short time later Jeff replies "it sure sounds good on the guitar...

The term "fiddle tunes" is widespread in the English-speaking world. We often use it across Canada. The violin, generally called a "fiddle" when playing traditional dance music, was an extremely...