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A wealth of information. Thank you all again.

I appreciate you folks lending your expertise and time. It is a lot to think about and I plan on taking some time to evaluate the situation. I had someone suggest the following equipment for a kind...

Thanks for the advice. I will have to read through it all slowly tonight after work. I was hoping to keep the price under $2K but maybe that is just fantasy.

There have been a few posts about sound systems but I haven't found one that directly answers some questions I have. I play in a four piece bluegrass band (mandolin, guitar, banjo, fiddle). We also...

Seven days left to support this cool project with Mike Compton, Rhiannon Giddens, and others. Wish I was still living in North Carolina.
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Mike Compton is going to be in the LA area November 16th-19th and evidently has some time to give some private lessons. Shoot him an email

taterbugmusic@gmail.com

I'll be there. My frst time going. Do folks jam at the concert or is this more of a spectators event?

Need to practice more
My double stop tremolo
And my mando prose...

Working on this talk now and almost have it licked but having problems on the line "On a fine soft day ay ay".

I have tried playing it:
......G...........D
On a fine soft day -I-ay

and
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Really happy so far with my skype lessons with Mike Compton. Great player, nice guy, and gifted instructor. The guy really invests in teaching you. I have not found that always to be the case with...

Much thanks!

Anyone happen to have created or aware of where exists any mandolin tab for solo parts for Dread Wind and Rain (ala Garcia and Grisman?) I have made up some pretty simple licks that work but would...

Anyone familiar with Paul Statman and the Statmen? Would like to see these guys play live. Really amazing gypsy jazz and Dawg.

To create more structured practice sessions and to expand my knowledge of music theory.

Ok good feedback thank you! I will order Ted's book and begin working on some of the other suggestions you folks kindly made.

I have been playing mandolin for a bout a year, the guitar before that. Recently I have been learning some basic versions of gypsy jazz, choro, and klezmer songs--primarily from tabledit files from...

Jarfly,
You should offer lessons to intermediate players such as myself in Santa Barbara.;)

Tipsy Gypsy

Mike what kind of practice routine would you suggest for intermediate players working towards adding complexity and speed to solo breaks.

Nice flames

Thanks for the info all.

Thank you OS. That makes sense.

I am a novice/intermediate player beginning to think about improvisation and adding complexity to my playing. I have been looking at some of the exercises on the Mandozine webpage. In particular I...

Southern Flavor!

I had the same problem. In addition I had some numbness in my index and middle finger. It was caused from bending my wrist back after tiring it out due to playing for long periods of time. Relief...