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    Re: Matt Flinner on Duff

    Sounds like Midnight on the Water to me.
  2. Thread: Ellis A5?

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    Re: Ellis A5?

    It's hard to describe tonal characteristics through typing but to me the Ellis has a more complex tone, better A and E strings, more sustain and more bass response. Plus with my Ellis, there seems to...
  3. Thread: Ellis A5?

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    Re: Ellis A5?

    I have Ellis A5 #351 and its one of the best mandolins I've ever played.

    You'll have to decide for yourself how much you need a scroll but for my money there's no better mandolin for the price...
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    You Are My Sunshine "Closed Position" Lesson

    Hey Everyone,

    I made another beginner video lesson for one of my students who was asking about taking a simple solo you know down the neck and playing it up the neck in "closed" position without...
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    Saint Anne's Reel Video Lesson

    Here's a video lesson I just completed for one of my students. It's a beginner version of Saint Anne's Reel to help students work on pick direction and arpeggios. I figured I'd throw up the link in...
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    Re: Turkey In The Straw Video Lesson

    Just trying to give back some content to a website I've gotten a lot of instruction out of over the years. I'm not suggesting anyone buy anything.

    If it's not welcome I won't post any future...
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    Turkey In The Straw Video Lesson

    Here's a new mandolin video lesson I just completed.


    It's the traditional tune Turkey In The Straw. I wrote this up to help one of my beginning students work on their pick direction. I thought...
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    the downstrokes have a staccato feeling i think,...

    the downstrokes have a staccato feeling i think, a shortness that is hard to match with down up strokes. Try it both ways and you can tell it clearly sounds different. They also seem to give some...
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    glamour and grits. same ol' river brilliancy ...

    glamour and grits.

    same ol' river
    brilliancy
    the lord came unto me

    so good.
  10. Thread: Big mon's axe

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    wouldn't have made any difference to me. It's the...

    wouldn't have made any difference to me. It's the SOUND of Monroe's mandolin that I am after, not what it looks like or which company made it. And from what I have heard Monroe sounded like Monroe on...
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    I like playing this one an octave higher than you...

    I like playing this one an octave higher than you did in your video BradW. i think it sounds a little better to my ears and you can get that low F# note without having to retune. Great song....great...
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    I liked the song, it sounded traditional to me...

    I liked the song, it sounded traditional to me but contemporary at the same time. Sounds like it would be a great connecting song between 2 singing ones. It didn't really sound like the dead to me,...
  13. Thread: Delfest

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    i think it was vince gill

    i think it was vince gill
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    if you think you'll be comfortable getting used...

    if you think you'll be comfortable getting used to the left hand I would suggest practicing your right hand maybe a little heavier than someone just starting out from scratch. The right hand in...
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    joe is a great mandolin player. everyone...

    joe is a great mandolin player.

    everyone should check out his solo cd called saturday night waltz which is also really good. I am not sure where he sells it but I bought it from him when I saw JKS...
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    as long as they keep bringing new people to...

    as long as they keep bringing new people to bluegrass music they're alright with me.
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    i haven't struggled with this issue personally...

    i haven't struggled with this issue personally but I would say it might be something to keep working on. It will limit your ability to execute a tremolo I think. A lot of music is goign to have the...
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    hey good to know theres other mandolin pickers in...

    hey good to know theres other mandolin pickers in minnesota. no monroe freaks though, except lonely old me.
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    for some reason thile's name always comes up in...

    for some reason thile's name always comes up in these types of threads but I wouldn't be to quick to assume that this is the only way Chris can play. (Talking about the reference to Jackson video) I...
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    i think mandozine has a copy of that.

    i think mandozine has a copy of that.
  21. Thread: Josh pinkham

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    i love josh's solo on luke but i love how relaxed...

    i love josh's solo on luke but i love how relaxed frank's playing seems, it doesn't really even seem like the chord changes are affecting him his melodies are so powerful the just go beyond the...
  22. Thread: Monroe style

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    save your money, buy a couple monroe cd's and the...

    save your money, buy a couple monroe cd's and the amazing slow downer!
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    where did you hear it? haven't heard this one...

    where did you hear it? haven't heard this one before.
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    did anyone add the untitled tune in D that I...

    did anyone add the untitled tune in D that I believe monroe wrote from the tourbus recordings? I checked with an all-knowing source and this is not going up caney, but a tune that never recieved a...
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    THIS ALBUM IS THE BEST...

    THIS ALBUM IS THE BEST THING...............EVER!!!!!!!!


    ooops I wasn't thinking when I wrote that. Sorry
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