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Here is the real progression:

G7 Gm G7 D7 D#7 D7 G7

Many fakebooks say to play a C but it is really a Gm

I make them myself with a sharpie. It takes maybe a half hour to write one. Chords are nice and big so two or three people can see it at once.

I use Mapes on my mandos and even my mandola. I just up the gauges on the mandolin strings to 15,25,35,52. $6.00 a set!

I use Mapes mandolin strings. I order 15,25,35,52 gauges and they are plenty long for my Collings Mandola. They come in 80/20 Bronze, Stainless, Nickle plated steel or Phosphor Bronze. Your...

I like to play Little Deuce Coup by the Beach Boys like a folk old timey song. It works really well. I use the Dm A7 Dm A7 G as the intro and turn around.

12 strings! What is the scale length (from nut to bridge)?

Mapes Strings does not list mandola strings on their web site but they let you customize your gages. I took a chance and ordered a mando set in dola gauges, 15 25 35 52. They are coated strings and...

Yes any note in the chord could be the root. Naming it would depend on the context. The key, the chord before and after. Usually the chord before is a half step lower, say for example a E7...

Me too!

I don't know this song but after a listen I think there are a few notes missing. There are eight phrases to this song. The first three are on the first line and the fourth one is missing. It is a...

Congratulations. The mandola has helped me break out of many ruts.

Inspired by Monk.....Monk is the one....

The Only-est

Perhaps a banjolin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkLhv7XtYso

Forgive me. I missed the word OCTAVE when I read the post I responded to. When I read "cheap way" I thought it was about putting a capo on a mandolin. I see how this is a way (putting a capo on an...

I also switched from mandolin to dola to fill the tenor voice at our weekly acoustic jam. I mainly play bass guitar and the mandola has opened my ears and brain to chords and soloing. It has really...

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Players with bad unsteady rhythm will ruin any jam for me. Many will get upset and insulted when I suggest they practice with a metronome.

We have a cheap clock in our practice room that I opened up and replaced the clock face numbers with the circle of fifths. It is very handy and we joke all the time about it getting close to Bb. ...

[ I guess adjusting the bridge position away from the fretboard could help it, but I haven't dared to fiddle with it yet.

Moving the bridge away from the finger board or away from the tail piece...

Google "guitar speed burst".
Here is one example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK3yH3WPb-A

I moved to Georgia in the 70's and started to play mandolin. Everybody said "are you going to play bluegrass?" Being a Yankee I had no idea what that was and would reply, "No I want to play jazz." ...

The same guy is also selling a Cadillac hubcap banjo
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Interesting mando. Antler nut and bridge. Hub cap back!

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If you have a smart phone or a computer, lap top, or pad, you can get a tuner app for free. I have found these to be very accurate.

Next Saturday my neighborhood is have our fourth annual Porchfest. People volunteer there porches and musical talent for a great fun time. The hood is about a mile square and we have 220 porches...