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Oh yeah, I forgot why I stopped posting here. Thanks for the reminder.

Whatever gets the tone you want is worth the money. The pick is your direct link to the tone you produce. Its priceless. I would not give up my Blue Chip for anything and Ive tried so many. But I...

I use my 4th finger all the time. I like the comment above: "Why would you not". My mind says that by not using it you are taking away 25% of your fingering technique. I wish I have one more finger...

Its been about a year since I started playing mandolin and I am constantly surprised at all of the things that you can do with this little instrument. I have spent a lot of time over this past year...

Paul, This is how I bought my first mandolin. I played everything on the all and ended up with an Eastman that I just love. I still play it and think it sounds great even though my 1924 Snake Head...

Make the trip to Elderly in Lansing. Not Northern Michigan but well worth the drive. They have most major brands in several models and also always have a large variety of vintage/used mandolins.

The books are a wealth of knowledge and very straight forward. I use them everyday.

So, Have you contacted the author or publisher or anyone else regarding this problem prior to blasting it on a...

vfwe. My teacher walked me through adjusting it Monday night. I am going to try and do just that and hope to get balance.

Mig, It had to be the Seafoam green one! Its so RAD I love it. Its really...

Yank Rachell - Blues Mandolin man
Mr Natural - Julin
Shel - Shel (Eva Holbrook is an amazing mandolin player)
Mandolin Orange - Quiet Little Room
The Jazz Mandolin Project
Mandolin Blues -...

Thanks everyone. I am in communications with Steve Ryder to get a new set of pick ups.

This is my first Electric instrument and wow its sooooo different. I thought generating good tone would be...

Mark, Great idea.

Tools= Gear...Manoldoins, mandolins and more mandolins, picks, educational etc.....
Skills = Techniques, pieces etc....

Thanks Sonic, I need to look into this right away. I am not even playing the e strings right now because I cannot get an even dynamic out of them. G, D and A are all in great range....E drops off.

Playing music is like racing/driving cars in a way. When you play music its like your spending time on the race track, or drag racing or maybe a nice pastoral ride in the country. These are the...

Hi Guys, Yes she showed up! Great story of Karma. UPS lost the package. Off the radar completely gone. I was giving up hope when the UPS truck accidental delivered a wrong package to me the day...

I played for a few months prior to committing to lessons and in hind sight wish I would have started with them right away. I too have a musical back ground. The things that helped me were very...

Wow.....I checked out the links. Great! I am going add them into my listening mix for a bit.

Amazing musical journey story. Thanks for sharing.

Pizza Tapes got me started on Mandolin.

Chuck, yeah man Kind of Blue is like a moment for me. Just started listening to it two weeks ago as I am starting to study Jazz. I listened once and heard some pretty cool beats and swings, I...

What song, album, musician or other thing changed/inspired/enlightened your musical perception/awareness style the most? What was that moment you heard something or realized something and said "thats...

Also, when learning MSP you do learn the location of all notes....if you choose to. You just need to be aware of what you are fretting in the pattern.

Hi Jon, The idea is that you are starting by learning the pattern and as you develop and start to practice the pattern in different keys and in different areas of the fret board you start to relate...

I call it free style because I do not yet consider what I am doing improv. Its more like playing a lot of mistakes and a few good ones and figuring out what ones to keep...lol......sometimes the...

Agree or disagree I bet it was a super interesting discussion and all sides have merit. I would bet that as a teacher he see a huge variety of skill and laziness all in one cluster of students and...

Oh man such a great way to explain it. I am finding a lot of things in moveable scale patterns that sound great but I have zero clue what to call them. So right on, that naming what you are doing...