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  1. Re: Good Tone - How long does it actually take?

    There’s a great story of Julian bream, the great guitarist, giving a seminar and at the end one of the students says, ‘sure you have great tone, but you’ve got a great instrument. How do I get great...
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    Music from Central France

    This is a nice video of a band called Cadene, who seem like they are from Central France. The pipes are certainly from there. (Cornemuse du Centre). Really nice, I think. Pretty funky looking lot as...
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    Re: The Pentatonic Mandolin

    There is a very short video on Youtube of Wayne Benson talking about this book and that was enough for me to order it. One of the best decisions I've ever made, as it's probably the best mandolin...
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    Re: The Pentatonic Mandolin

    Niles teaching materials are some of the best.
  5. Re: Would I be happier with a ‘20s Gibson F4?

    Hey Niles: I have a feeling that backup guitar player is going to go places some day. :)

    Nice playing on mandolin, too.
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    Re: English fiddling essay (no mando)

    Thanks for sharing Dagger,
    I haven't listened to all of this but am really enjoying it. Apparently Peter Knight was classically trained which may help to explain his good technique which is still...
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    Re: English fiddling essay (no mando)

    Barry Dransfield used the old-folky style of pressing the fiddle to the ribs instead of the neck -- makes singing a lot less awkard:

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    Martin
  8. Thread: Books

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    Re: Books

    NFI but Niles Hokkanen's Guide to Chords is my personal favorite mandolin chord book. It has the blues grass chords, open chords, closed position jazz chords, and common chord progressions to boot....
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    Re: Where did the tab edit files on Mandozine go?

    Well, it's a truism that nothing lasts forever. Not me, not you, and not anything else! But the June 1, 2003 interview with you, Niles Hokkanen, can still be found on the web, if you know where to...
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    Re: Which way do musicians make more money?

    This popped up on my FB feed today and I thought it fit well with the conversation.
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    Re: Where are the Mandola Books?

    I recently got a copy of Niles Hokkanen's small book The Mandola Sampler. The type is pretty small for my oldish eyes, but it's VERY full of information. Extremely concentrated. I've only read...
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    Re: Mandolin player crossing over to guitar

    I went down the same path. Played guitar a bit as a teenager (not bluegrass) and started flatpicking after I had been playing mandolin for a while. Mike Stangeland, who contributed a lot of tabs to...
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    Re: The Myth of Perfection

    There is no such thing as perfection. We all strive to improve, but perfection is not attainable. I know I have made mandolins I think are near to perfection, but then the next or the next after...
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    Re: Theory: "cheat sheet" for Western modes

    Ouch! Okay, I enjoyed your app (as I posted above) but no reason for a cheap shot at Niles re: his very brief article from years ago. He has done a service there by presenting a lot of information in...
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    Vals från Vargön, jazz version

    The reason why I’m posting this jazz version here, is because of the folk version of the same tune I posted about month ago, so you can compare with it.
    Making tab (PDF) is a little complicated. I...
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    Re: Position playing or shifting?

    +1
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    Re: Position playing or shifting?

    Hey Niles, thanks for your comments and insight! I agree that picking a constant stream of FFcp notes is pretty mechanical. I liked the soundcloud tracks.

    Also, thanks for the great publications...
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    Re: "Dark" Fiddle Tunes?

    I learned this one last night.

    https://youtu.be/dIEWjxy6Ptg
    https://youtu.be/dIEWjxy6Ptg
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    Re: French ABC tunebook

    I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but in this site there is quite a lot of Asturian, Galician music, etc.:

    https://piloche.jimdo.com/
  20. Re: Help! I can't hear the beat when I play a break

    Exactly! Where does my foot go?!

    By the way, I bought your book on twin mandolin, and I find it fascinating, though, of course, most of it is still beyond me. But as I said, I can play breaks...
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    Re: Lefties Who Play Righty?

    FWIW, I wanted to add that during my years working at a guitar shop we hand one experienced right-handed player who purchased a left-handed guitar with the idea of trying a new experience. ...
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    Re: Lefties Who Play Righty?

    You seem pretty sure of yourself, and I would totally disagree, you’re not the final say on this topic. Everytime there is a thread like this someone jumps in and says do it my way, you’ve done it...
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    Re: Lefties Who Play Righty?

    Another lefty playing righty here and yes...I totally think we should have learned to play left handed. There are various reasons why we do this mainly there were not many/any left handed...
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    Re: Finnish mandolinist HEIKKI LAHTI, RIP

    Finnish folk style musicians really miss Heikki Lahti these days. I knew of his illness for several months and saw this coming but can't really believe he is gone now. He was definitely the biggest...
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    Re: Memorizing the neck

    If you teach yourself to play 'tunes / melodies' on mandolin by seeking out the 'sounds' (notes - i'm an 'ear player') - you'll eventually learn all their names almost by default. I never bothered...
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