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I started with Finale 3.5 and have kept up ever since, then I also bought Sibelius 2.11 in a crossgrade special and finally learned it in version 5 and now I do everything in Sibelius. I also bought...

There are two very powerful notation apps on iPad: Symphony Pro and Notion. There are some others but those two are the best -- each has strengths and weaknesses. Both allow files to be saved in...

Nice playing, nice tune! Dwight is definitely a national treasure! Thanks for sharing!

I just heard about Dwight Lamb, who is an old-time fiddler from Iowa, who also play a lot of Danish tunes which he learned from his Danish grandfather. Lamb makes frequent trips to Denmark and plays...

In my opinion there is no single weight that is better for picking than any other weight. So much depends on the specific instrument, an individual's left-hand strength, picking skill, and musical...

One reason the results we hear are almost always positive is that people who go to the expense of buying something which has a negative effect on their playing often don't care to share that they...

Evelyn's books over the past 5 years, ever since her first "Evelyn's Big Book 2015," have been a great source of wonderful arrangements of mostly traditional tunes, with a few originals scattered...

Evelyn's books over the past 5 years, ever since her first "Evelyn's Big Book 2015," have been a great source of wonderful arrangements of mostly traditional tunes, with a few originals scattered...

I'm very curious about why the Peterson says "plucked rather than picked." Once you have tuned it with the plucked thumb, have you checked the tuning with a pick? I find that it's a bit sharper...

Rachmaninoff's "trick" was part of the "serial" school of composition (Schoenberg/Berg/Webern originally) -- it's an inversion of the original tone-row of a composition. So serial composers would...

The answer to your question requires a few questions before it can be answered, in my opinion:
1) what type of music do you hope to play on the mandolin? Classical, bluegrass, jazz, old-time, rock?...

Mike, to Pete's great advice I would add that you need to lose your natural desire to sound good when you start improvising. There are lots of play-along recordings that you can practice with in the...

As it stands now in the U.S. copyright for older works which were under copyright in either their first term or their renewal term when the U.S. Copyright law was re-written in 1978 have protection...

I saw a post the other day which included a link to the Banjo Mandolin Guitar Magazine from England. I followed the link and have to say that I think it's a very great resource and a lot of fun to...

Sound in any amplified instrument is as much controlled/altered by the amplification used as by the construction of the instrument. Damning an entire class of instrument because you haven't heard it...

An additional thank you, John, for knowing how to lay the music out properly! I have an Epson WF7620 printer which duplexes automatically and I simply had to use Adobe reader (could have been any...

I just downloaded John's new book and played through a few tunes and immediately made a donation. I want to thank John for making some of his books available for free with a suggested donation --...

I'd be careful of "resting fingers above the correct scale and chord positions" -- what did your doctor (and I would presume a physical therapist also) have to say about doing anything with your left...

All this talk implying that somehow midi sounds are inferior miss the point entirely. MIDI is merely a set of instructions to some playback device. It is the playback device which produces the...

Thank you for continuing to add to your wonderful resource -- these all look like such fun to play!

I have used a bluetooth midi keyboard into my computer with a bluetooth speaker for output and there is too much latency to be useful. Better to simply spend more money (as if that's an easy thing...

I'm curious about what it is that defines and instrument as a "mandolin." I always thought it was that it was an instrument which had 4 pairs of strings, each pair tuned in unison and the 4 pairs...

Thank you for this wonderful app, Avi! I just purchased it and am very impressed with the settings and the entire concept of randomly muting the metronome so the musicians can find out just how...

I just checked clairnote out and see nothing simple about it at all -- or at least simpler than standard notation.

Any notation system, whether traditional or clairnote or tablature or whatever...

I don't have this mic, but a couple of things in your message popped out at me:

Why are you using a preamp -- the specs at the MXLmics web-site says it has an FET preamp built-in. Isn't that...