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    Re: Mandolin Mastery webinar training coming up

    Looks like it’s offered again on Saturday, January 15.
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    Keeping a practice journal

    Anyone keeping a practice journal? I’m considering starting one to help give some focus/intentionality to my practice, keep my repertoire in good shape, and capture learnings and ideas. Curious about...
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    Re: Strategies for learning without teachers?

    I’m coming up on 5 years of playing, and most all of my instruction has been via video. Sharon Gilchrist’s courses have been great resources, and Chad Manning’s PegHead course on music theory is...
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    Re: Subscription Tutorial Sites

    I really like Sharon Gilchrist’s courses on PegHead Nation...it’s good to have a curriculum to move through. She gives lots of technical tips as she is teaching songs, and explains the music theory...
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    Re: What's the most fun way to learn the fretboard

    Learning the main bluegrass arpeggios got me to learn the fretboard better. I also used Fretboard Learn (mentioned above) on my phone. Not even an hour’s worth of time using the app spread out in 3-5...
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    Re: Don't be nervous

    If there isn’t a jam in your area, just start one up. I went to a jam that was too far from my house to be a regular thing, met a guitar player there who had also come from near where I live and we...
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    Re: Goals for 2019

    I set a number of goals this fall, the main one being to have about 20 "jammable" songs -- songs I can play fluently with some embellishment (i.e. multiple A parts and multiple B parts) -- by May....
  8. Using Wunderlist to organize my practice time

    Once upon a time in my work life I started using index cards to track tasks, but then I moved to the Wunderlist app. I was contemplating starting to use index cards to organize my mando practice —...
  9. Re: Collings MT and Weber Bitterroot F: newbie play test this wee

    I went ahead and took the plunge on the Colllings MT! Thanks for all the helpful ideas. I played them all again today, and I did enjoy the Weber more than yesterday (there was less competing noise in...
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    Re: Hosted my first jam!

    Hi Bill -- I wanted to make sure anyone replying as clear on my level, so no one would be disappointed! So here's what I posted:

    "Looking for other beginner/advanced beginner bluegrass players for...
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    Hosted my first jam!

    Would never have guessed a year ago that I'd be hosting a musical jam session at my house today (of course that's not the only thing I wouldn't have been able to guess a year ago). I hadn't even...
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    Re: Looking at a used Kentucky KM-805 for $550

    Thank for the feedback everyone. I went ahead and bought the 805. I love those inlays/enlays (?) It seems to be in great shape to me, except that it needs new strings (guess I need to learn to learn...
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