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A friend of mine was having difficulty with his phone one day and started swearing. Alexa told him: "We do not use language like that, Donald."

The expression rode hard and put away wet comes to mind.

I don't know if you ever listened to his podcast he did the last year or so of his life. If you haven't you should. It is priceless. It is near the bottom of his webpage at the link below.
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Secondary dominants (II-V-I) are very common. The chorus of Uncloudy Day and the usual way of playing Further Along have them. Learning to hear the II-V-I is important because it comes up quite a...

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Not to nitpick too much I heard that attributed to Chet Atkins. I do not believe Doc read music at all unless it is Braille notation. Not that I would put much past Doc. He was a rather amazing...

But that is just the bridge.

One approach is to learn to sing or hum the melody then play what you sing or hum rather than memorizing positions on the fretboard. The next step is to sing or hum variations and learn those. If...

Stew Mac sent out an e mail today with a couple of closeout items. They were electric guitar building kits. It read:

"Looks like we stepped on the toes of a certain big name guitar factory....

Andy Hatfield puts up a lot of nice guitar stuff on his You Tube channel. It is not organized as structured lessons but there is a lot of teaching material in there. It is bluegrass focused...

Sherry Mignano Crawford, who is sometimes a poster here, wrote the book on Italian mandolins in America. See the link below. It may have some relevant information for you.
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I am not sure if I was clear but all of the past sessions on YouTube have the playlists attached when you expand the description. Click on the word more

He said something in the last jam about...

I do not know if you are looking at Facebook or YouTube. I have linked to the livestreams on his YouTube channel below. On the YouTube livestreams, if you expand the description by clicking where...

So you have gone away from using small screws to attach the top and back to your test mandolin? Just curious what you are using for glue and why you went away from the screws.

Since no one else has dared to bring it up, it would be ideal for playing Rye Whiskey or Whiskey Before Breakfast.

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Most of the bluegrass guitarists I know will play out of E forms. However most bluegrass guitarists are flatpickers. Scruggs used fingerpicks when he played guitar. You Are My Flower, which is...

Just to clarify a point on intonation. With modern factory built mandolins the location of the frets is rarely a problem. Fret slots are CNC cut and usually accurate. Fret location can be a...

I am in the camp of step away from it for a little while. The longest I took to learn a song was just short of 40 years to learn Cannonball Rag on guitar. I would mess with it, set it down, come...

The zero fret only works for the other end, not the bridge.

What kind of bridge did these mandolins use? Could he get a new saddle from Gibson or whoever the bridge supplier was? Did they use...

Today is the 101st anniversary of Doc Watson's birth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLXs_Y0FvA

Gary Scruggs introduced Soldier's Joy as going back to the 15th century. Earl proudly piped up "I wrote it."

There is a musical reason for that though. C, A, G, E and D are the only keys with open string, first position chords. That is the sound expected and demanded of bluegrass guitar. I can play in...

I have been surprised by some pretty good horn or sax players who really did not like to have to play G, A or E. They would hang around in Bb or F all day given the chance.

To take this even further off the beaten path, a friend of mine whose last name is Wolf worked with a number of Mexicans on a landscaping crew who referred to him as Señor El Lobo. So it seems in...

David Grier says that someone asked him once "Is that a real song or one you wrote?"