Folks, the arthritis in my hands is significant enough that trying to tune these small tuning pegs can be difficult and painful at times. I couldn’t find a small tuning tool for the mando, so I made...
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Folks, the arthritis in my hands is significant enough that trying to tune these small tuning pegs can be difficult and painful at times. I couldn’t find a small tuning tool for the mando, so I made...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNj0wPgyL7A
Mandolin Theory, Technique & Improvisation by Niles Hokkanen
Page 7 at the bottom below the black separation line.
The first paragraph: "The C pentatonic scale is..." This makes sense as he is...
Folks, I'm trying to play the mandolin with the praise team. However, the stage area is so loud that I can only hear about 50% of what I'm playing (right or wrong!). What I'm thinking about is a...
This sounds great!!!
Folks, I tried something for smoothing up the edges of my pick. As shown in the attached photo, I bought a fingernail buffing pad from Walmart that has four progressive buffing surfaces (Equate...
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my post. I can confidently say that the root of my problem has been revealed by all your comments. Yes, I’m a sheet music kind of guy. All my musical life...
I forgot to mention why I started down the mandolin path in the first place. I've played guitar on the praise team at church since 2014. Mostly strumming chords with a bass run here and there. ...
I’ve been trying to learn the mandolin for two non-consecutive years now. I’ve completed home study courses from Mike Marshall, Chris Thile, Steve Kaufman, Brad Laird (Improv), Niles Hokkanen...
Does the mandolin have pentatonic shapes like the guitar does?
Jordan,
This great and very helpful.
Thank you!!
I'm receiving excellent mandolin instruction from Wayne Fugate via Zoom (https://www.waynefugate.com/). My most recent homework assignment was to play a song entirely on one string. Wow, this...
I was reviewing a training video on YouTube of Joe Walsh giving instruction of a song. I noticed the sound his mandolin makes is quite different than mine. His sounds more like he's picking...
I want to do some tremolo practice using the attached song. Does anyone know the name of it? I'll do some searching for the music once I get the name.
Thanks.
On this Mandolin Cafe's home page is a picture of a mandolin - amber in color. It's on the right as advertised by Mass Street Music. This mandolin has really caught my eye. I went to their home...
First I want to say thanks to all who responded. This is all great guidance – all of it!
I requested to participate with the praise team this morning and our worship leader responded yes with a...
I’ve played the acoustic guitar on the praise team for the past six years but decided to switch to the mandolin. The praise team (without me) consists of one acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano and...
I just received my new Chris Thile casein 1.4 mm pick. I really like the smooth play and sound that it produces. One question. The pick is not flat, but concave. Not a lot, but enough to "rock &...
This may or may not help to answer the question. However, the packaging looks identical. I got these guitar strings new in 1967.
I just installed a new truss rod cover from Montana Lutherie. Bruce did an outstanding job making it. I chose the cross on ebony as shown on his web site. I am very pleased with it's appearance on...
I have used Monster Grips with great success.
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