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Bach's, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. I played it on violin, but mandolin would've definitely worked. Not as tuff as one would think.
Oh yes, and Having My Baby. :grin:

"Y'know learning the banjers no picnic. It's one solid weekend of hard work!"

Rollin My Sweet Babies Arms, the first change goes to the 5, so I,V, IV. Pete Wernick (dr. Banjo)has printable sheets of 2 and 3 chord Bluegrass & Folky tune titles.

The solution is to test the...

Memorizing isn't a bad thing. You're finding out how much one needs to rehearse what you already play. Eventually, you get so you "know" how to play the instrument enough. Tunes have brothers,...

I think Robert Craft said, All things in moderation, and moderation's the first thing to go.

"Do you want me to kick this one off, or should I start it?"
or, "What key of Bb should we play this one?"
There's millions more.

Pete Wernick, of Hotrize wrote a book, years ago, How to Make a Band Work. Everything, literally everything was considered. One thing stuck out to me. The last thing the MC says should be the name of...

Not just just black Bluesmen. The enigmatic Chuck Berry, had to have 10k in a paper sack.
Food for a song: "Johnny B. Who? Never heard of him. Not til I get paid."

My friend's only problem with the dola, is the scale length. If one is hip to the interval pattern, finding the note is quite intuitive. It's just a matter of reaching it. Why not fiddle?
Makes me...

For some reason I'm notorious for being a day late. But this is where I sussed out how to play progressions in different keys: http://jazzmando.com/ffcp_studies.shtml

The whole time I'm thinking, why Hollywood Bowl? Why not Austin, or Abbott or . . . .?

I hate to say it but, sheer hours. I know because my chops fell apart. I drifted to other instruments. I won't say "pros," but I will call them good pickers. They practice not enough to play it...

I learned to read notation 50 years ago. I use chord theory 10 times as much today. To chart out songs/tunes with Nashville numbers is very handy.

3 pages of, "Go for it!"
It's my sworn duty as a Cafe member to say, " Yes! Get the Mandolin!"

I've got one those MK models that have a story here on the Cafe. They're not intended to be all that high-end/level, but the more I play it the better it sounds. I leave my "better" Eastman in the...

In addition to "wrap & poke." Mind where the little hole (in the tuning post/peg) is oriented. It prevents one from ramming a string into one's thumb.

It makes my fingers hurt just thinking about it. I play banjer bare fingered, same for guitar. They won't let me near fingerpicks. Not after the nosebleed incident. :)

I can't state this enough: Don't wait until you're good enough. You grow and get better by playing with others.

I've got the homespun dvds, but I'd reiterate, Mike Compton is thee Monroe style guy.

Sir Paul McCartney said something like, "I knew it was good enough if I could remember it enough to bring it to the others."
Not necessarily a complete song but a kernel. This really stuck in my...

I once lurcked in a songwriters forum. The answer is to not hangout in songwriters forums. The answer is to demystify the mystery. To treat a song like a box. A thing. There's very little difference...

Did someone say, Rogue!? I've had a couple forever. Maybe fifty bucks for one. The other was like thirty. It was a blem. Sure I've got a couple other better mandolins, but it's amazing how...

Laughed out loud on the bassist joke!
Because I just learned to play the bass (the instrument not the fish) recently.
It's no picnic.
It was a solid weekend of hard work.

I don't know any musician jokes, just drummer jokes.

What an enigma. I just enjoyed reading most of that thread. I think i just figured something out. I feel much less guilty not playing my MK, than if I had an F5G.