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Given the blank looks I get when I mention Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Carlo Aonzo - even David Grisman and Dagger Gordon! - to friends and family, I think all mandolinists are under-rated.

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No tune or song is or isn't Bluegrass -- Bluegrass is what you do with it.

Young Mike Marshal w/ the Sunshine Bluegrass Boys interview for posterity ... must be early 70's... bunch of young guys just starting out .. classic..
probably going to need a little help with the...

Who could be a better reincarnation of Homer and Jethro?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUG0JqA7yc

Not a lot of mandolin content I suppose but he sure made his mark on American music.

https://variety.com/2023/music/obituaries-people-news/jimmy-buffett-dead-margaritaville-1235711632/

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Yes I can and do smile when playing and singing any number of instruments/genres. But I started playing and performing music almost 50 years ago and have had several conductors, band leaders, etc....

I’m pretty sure this is NOT an original idea, but since I can’t remember it being shared here, I (somehow) quite belatedly realized that practicing in front of a mirror can result in at least two...

You have that correct. He frequently would use all downstrokes to give a certain sound/emphasis to his playing. Tremolo and certain high speed passages would require up strokes. He certainly was not...

If you aren't notation impaired....SEVCIK: School of Violin Technic, Books 1-4
School of Violin Technics (Schule der Violintechnik, four parts, 1880)


Vol I, First Position,
vol. II, 2nd to...

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Some goofing around on the mandolin yesterday evening eventually led to this spontaneous arrangement. In the end I decided to record it with the Pomeroy mandola pictured. Enjoy!

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I totally know what you mean; I LOVE Strum Machine, just can't practice without it!

Tune in here.
https://calendars.kgnu.org/kgnu-rockygrass-live-broadcast-and-stream/

Great line up and schedule here

https://bluegrass.com/rockygrass/lineup/main-stage-lineup

My buddy Bruce and I have been busking for various causes over the last year or so at a local farmers’ market, particularly for humanitarian relief for Ukraine and for the UNHCR. We recently added...

Very good question. To some the answer may be clear and absolute, others not so much...

Here are some advantages of not looking at any hands while playing...

1) You can watch the people you...

The Flatt Stanley Incident had a fun gig at Wolftree Taphouse in Newport Oregon on Sunday. Here is an audience video of Banks of the Ohio. Other videos available on your youtube channel. I just...

Hey fellow mandolorians! I finally bit the bullet and decided to start making I guess what you would call science fiction mandolin music. Something I've wanted to do for a while now, having been...

An example of a classic pentatonic riff; you could practice your scales by playing this riff in every key. Just one of many examples. But don’t be quick to dismiss the idea of simply varying your...

Most impressive "bluegrass-adjacent" band I've seen this year is Twisted Pine with terrific mandolin playing by Dan Bui.

Here is a great live clip from February 2023:

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Here's today's arrangement. Thanks for listening!


https://youtu.be/m_fnrbn0IuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKieJYp-pP4



Reimagine Art Responders: Mandolin Orange q&a


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfwU6CLjWT8

Plenty of examples here of mandolin and electric 5-string mandola played with techniques and vocabulary drawn from a variety of other instruments, in a varierty of genres.

I've been doing this...

Here is a fun video from Marcel that is somewhat related to the discussion.

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One with 8 strings.

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Yeah, The Alpha List is all originals, and I didn't write "Wagon Wheel," so it wasn't part of that dealio. But just so you're not disappointed ...

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Now, my previous band used to do...