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I’ve always preached the Circle of Fifths for beginners to find chords in a song, but I never knew it could be used for scales as well. So cool!

Free acoustic blues show on YouTube. Thu, May 5/2022 at 8pm eastern. Join me for 40 minutes of blues played on mandolin, lap slide resonator guitar, and banjos. Tell your friends!
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I've also had a lot of troubles with memorization, but seem to be improving in that area since the pandemic - now that I'm spending more time at home playing.

I'm about halfway through reading the...

Free acoustic blues show on YouTube. Thu, Feb 25 at 8pm eastern time. Join me for 40 minutes of blues being played on mandolin, lap slide resonator guitar, and banjos. Tell your friends!
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On Thursday night, I'll be doing another Facebook Live show, singing and playing some acoustic blues on mandolin and banjos. This will be the sixth show in a series that I've done since isolation.
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I use an Eastman MD515, but I make no claims to any kind of authenticity in my sound. It's just the mandolin that I have and love.

If anyone wants to see the video from my show last night, here's the link. There were five songs on mandolin, four songs on Irish tenor banjo, two songs on five-string banjo. Spoiler: I played some...

Thanks for the endorsement, Ranald. That show at The Log Drive is probably my favourite show I've ever played: Great audience, great room, and a very supportive environment!

Here's a link to the...

You’re right: It’s just for the ceremony, and just instrumental. I’m not shy about singing, but my voice isn’t appropriate for this type of thing. I’m just making a few suggestions to the couple, and...

I guess there aren’t really any copyright issues. The wedding is happening in a private home. I’ll check this out - thanks!

I’m doing instrumentals because I’m usually a blues guy and there is...

Improvising is 50% theory and 95% ear, and pretty much equal in importance.

... and math is hard.

I do this kind of show all the time. If you do songs in G, D, or A, it's pretty easy to do solos with lots of double and triple-stops, to add some variety. Since it's tuned in fifths, the mando is a...

Some things that I do weekly:

1. I'm practicing weekly with a band of people who are all bringing original songs into the mix. That tends to switch things up a lot. They keep thinking they have to...

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