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Old thread, new thoughts on the Tone-Gard . . . I've had one on the back of my old Gibson for decades, but it recently went missing. Just contacted Tony for a replacement. I believe in them...

Yes - - always thought of vibes solos as a rich field to explore for mandolin. I've been transcribing Milt Jackson solos for years to get that bluesy spirit-feel he has - - great stuff!

One tune I use for technique skills is Golden Eagle Hornpipe - - uses all the strings, lots of tricky string crossings, and the B part has some interesting harmonic leaps.

I finger pick - - using fingers (!), a modified Travis picking in a folkie or Honky Tonk situation. I play a National Steel tenor tuned as an octave mando, so tend toward the "powerchords" (A= 2245)...

Just adding a few cents here - - In the huge world of the internets there is no site comparable to the Cafe for mando-classifieds.
If a big volume wheeler-dealer is taking advantage of what has...

In the Ella (and Louis) version, the bridge goes to Ab (from C), in the Cass Elliot version, the bridge goes to A - - been a souce of confusion on many a bandstand, depending on what version the...

What a cornucopia of helpful tips! Pete's advice to relax behind the instrument is basic, up and down picking, learning tunes, all invaluable. I pretty much play every day and I start by playing...

Altho I started on piano at an early age and had a leg up, so to speak, I really learned sight reading by going thru the 1001 Fiddle Tunes, and O'Neill's Music of Ireland - Irish tunes by the...

So you could play a full 4 set evening of music with 1 chord chart!

As David KOS mentioned, I think of (and I think a lot of swing players do as well) as the role of a diminished scale or arpeggio in a progression as outlining a 7b9 chord, i.e. a V7 chord in a...

Yes, sorry . . . I did not mean to disrespect any poster on the thread. I guess I've just always had a feeling that 'theory' is a great tool to communicate ideas and help us understand musical...

Dang, Aaron, that is beautiful stuff. Apparently you've gotten the Acme pinky extender, my pinky just can't do that stretch. Thanks for the inspiration! ~Will

00h, a mandolin pick discussion! Lot of common sense in all the previous posts - the thing that struck me was - a pick is just a pick - while ontologically true, I don't think a violinist would say...

In response to your post about the lust for that big rhythm section behind your solo thang - Django and Dawg - I've heard that same thing, Art, and had it collaborated by a number of folks - Ya...

Yes, Mandopops, I think you've hit the theory nail on the nomenclature head! As soon as there is a 7th in the chord, the upper extensions BECOME 'upper' - 9ths instead of 2nds, 13th instead of 6ths....

Welcome to this life long endeavor. It's a rich path.
Jazz is a vocal genre - the best way to develop the vocabulary is to learn melodies of standards - from fake books, real books, or (best!) by...