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The headstock looks like it ran out of design after the body...

I think I like it a lot.

Didn’t Lonnie later accuse the new grass revival of selling drugs to children?

There’s an interview with mike Marshall where Sam talks a bit about those mandos, I think. If I can spend five uninterrupted minutes here, I’ll see if I can post it.

I suspect that most instruments today are made better than most instruments of the past. The exceptions are famous. But how many 1934 gibsons, say, weren’t as good as a nice Weber or a good Gibson...

It really is a superb book. I have the download, but will upgrade to a print version.

A Gibson Lloyd loaf
Costs more than we can afford
PAC rim will be fine.

Eight strings and two hands
Unlimited range and style
Unless you like bass

Monroe had the chop
And with earl scruggs on banjo
Changed the whole wide world.

Sam bush. Chris Thile
The dawg and jethro burns
No peers on mando

Here’s an article I wrote a couple of years back on tony. One of my favourite player. My dream band - tony, Sam, jd, Edgar, Alison.

Nfi

https://www.toppermost.co.uk/tony-rice/

I think the simplest thing is to use the parallel minor.



If you take the Cm chord scale

Cm dhalfdim7 Ebmajor Fmin Gb min Ab min bmaj

You can work through substitutions. So in C major...

@explorer. Much appreciated. Thinking chromatically help, doesn’t it?

I’m currently working my way through several high level theory books. We already discussed slominsky.

Levy on negative harmony though, is starting to defeat me.


As I am comprehending it,...

I was thinking ‘I bet it’s a fylde’. Glad I didn’t post that. (Although I would have qualified it with ‘don’t knows and just a guess etc)

This is, I think, great advice. In perusing the contents the pentatonic and heptatonic scales catch my eyes.

Thank you to all. I must say the introduction is not a light read.


I was hoping davidkos would see this. I was wondering what his take was.

@isaac casas - I discovered it in a passing...

Just picked this up. It is of course the book that Coltrane, Mingus, Zappa, and Jaco, among many many others studied.

Has anyone used it? Is it useful for a mandolin? (as in do the intervals make...

In a reverse of what I usually say - 'It's not a big mandolin'. Its responses are different, its capabilities are different, its tone is different. You can actually use a lot of mando technique on...

He knew Country Music was three chords and the truth. What you saw, he was, on stage, off-stage, wherever.

Vale.

I took a student to buy a guitar, and with her price range, 300-500 AUD very quickly settled on an Eastman. I can’t speak to Loar instruments at all, but I was highly impressed with the Eastman. If I...

Very nice mando. Please send it to my home address. We don’t need to waste everyone’s time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTmRKtFPMo&lc=UgxMBXgyk7lqUVuI8h14AaABAg


Please be gentle ....

the song is by Chuck Berry, but I took an arrangement by Ry Cooder and converted it to...

I was checking the specs on the website - I sometimes do for my instruments.

Anyway, two things I hadn’t noticed before became apparent to me

1) the fingerboard material is engineered wood....

Phew - I thought they were selling it.

Man I hope to see it played, even if online...


I think it belongs in a museum, with occasional playing. It's worked hard and deserves a rest.

It’s a V of V I’m thinking of. Apologies for my idiocy.