You know the thoughts you have while you're waiting for a haircut? Same thing.
You know the thoughts you have while you're waiting for a haircut? Same thing.
It's okay to go out on stage and be lousy. In fact, it is quite de rigueur.
I have purchased better ears for all my listeners. Works wonders.
I guess even Beethoven just did it all on a keyboard, wrote it out and made other musicians play it, though.
And interestingly, a surprisingly large proportion of the pianos in those homes were...
In the future, people won't play mandolin. They will just pay for a digital copy of the sound they would have made if they had put the effort in.
This is like one of those murder mystery podcasts where you only get the clues one installment at a time.
It says on another thread that A J Lee says that it was made by someone called Dennis Anderson:
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/143973-Dennis-Anderson-mandolins
He "wanted to laugh at old age" but "got into difficulties off the Azores". A fate to which we can all relate.
Pick 10 tunes that you really like, learn them by heart, and work on them every day until you can perform them exactly how you want them to sound. That is really all there is to it. It's a lot harder...
I'm done looking for mandos. The next one can get off its backside and find me.
Plus it has a molten core and a 10km troposphere.
I always thought it was called an F because of the F-holes, and an A for similar reasons.
I don’t, I am entirely ruled by my passions, and I have no control over what I will do next.
The mandolin can be considered a "gateway instrument" which can easily lead the unwary to purchase many other types of instrument.
A lot of people play perfectly wonderful mandolin and barely or never use their pinkies. Look at Adam Steffey, has some of the best bluegrass tone in the business, and his pinkie rarely gets near the...
No wonder bluegrass bands have such trouble finding a mandolin picker.
Is this the concert?
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I believe his sound has more to do with how he plays than what he plays, just like everyone else’s sound. Either way, it is a glorious noise he makes.
But as the largest minority, we still win all the elections in this gerrymandered district.
Are you able to describe what is bad about this tune, just point out one or two of its most obvious flaws?
I make it so far 2:1 votes for "No I am not a bluegrass player". But remember guys, we are all different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY
This is so post-pandemic.
Easier to do badly. Harder to do well.
What kind of style do you want to play? Whose playing do you enjoy?
The Long and Winding Road….
what was the question?
One good tip is: the more you drink, the less you need to tune.