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Haha yeah, I never know how people will react when I mention John Mayer. I'm from England and he's still pretty unknown here so I get all excited about his songs lol.

Sorry if this isn't really the right place but I recorded a song this afternoon and I'd really appreciate any feedback, particularly as this is the first bluegrass song I've tried recording. It was a...

Has anyone tried Gravity by John Mayer on the mandolin? I started messing about with it and I think it could make a great mandolin piece and something to improvise with. Because it's in G you can...

I spoke to Chris at a gig about this song and he said it was just dudu all the way through...though I'm guessing you would start with an up position.

I'm still getting through tabbing this at the moment and was tempted to start a thread in the Song and Tunes Projects forum to see if everyone wanted to throw the tabs together to see what we've got....

I've been tackling the same problem too since I bought an F style mandolin. Someone suggested tilting the pick slightly and it's worked wonders for me. I still get the odd scrape but it's a lot...

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about Set Me Up...my minds been totally Guy Fawkes'd since I got back ;-) anyone remember the setlist? Off the top of my head (and not in order)...

Raining At Sunset
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Cool photo :-) I was there too. What an amazing night.

Raining At Sunset and Song For A Young Queen...be still, my beating heart.

Just wanted to bump this up as someone else had posted about it. I've had a crack and I think it's gradually getting somewhere. I've set it to D minor and it sounds quite nice with the note ringing...

Wow, sounds really nice :-) I can definitely see This Side in it, which is never a bad thing. I think if I'd have to nitpick (and it really is just nitpicking) is that the break might be a little bit...

I've been starting to write pieces of my own the past couple of months and wanted to ask how other people go about it? I'm particularly interested in the formula. I'm also a guitar player and so I'm...

I've honestly given up correcting people when they call it a banjo now. My housemate knocked on my door one night looking quite angry and said 'can you stop playing that banjo, I'm trying to sleep!'....

lol I always thought he wasn't officially part of Union Station and so that's why they mention him on the end.

Yeah, I've tried transcribing it a couple of times and it's certainly a challenge to try and put some fizz into it. I think playing as many open strings as possible to give it a ring may help. I'd be...

If you go to http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp and look for 287 it has a Chris Thile/Mike Marshall show and Waltz For Dewayne Pomeroy is played...might help you with the fingering/chords etc.

Dfyngravity - great list, those would be my choice too.

Hi everyone,
I had a mandolin for Christmas but I've been having problems with it. When I tune it up it sounds fine on open strings. As soon as I start fretting it it's out of tune. For example the...

Thanks for the replies guys http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I'm kinda relieved as I thought I'd picked up a really bad habit or something. I guss it's just learning...

I've had an A style mandolin for 2 years and I'm finally upgrading to an F style for Christmas. I had a quick play on it today when it came through the post and found a couple of difficulties.

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If it's on the backside then shouldn't it be an A hole?

Ahem, sorry.

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It's been a while since I read about this so I may be wrong, the frames per second may be out slightly, but...

It could be due to the regional coding. From what I can remember in the US dvds run...

After hearing Chris Thile rip through this one I've decided to give it a try. I do have the pdf file but my adobe acrobat reader keeps crashing so I can't use it and so I'm trying to work slow it...

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I use Transcribe as well...although it has a hard time opening up CD tracks (mp3's are fine). I don't know wether it's just my slow computer...but when I've used other programmes (such as The Amazing...

Yeah, I think I remember talking to you about When Mandolins Dream in another thread http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif I'm impressed you can remember it all, let alone...