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  1. Re: Jazz Mandolin Appetizers -- original tune names

    Thanks Don, great minds (?) think alike. Last week I bought the Soundslice rhythm course and I am working through it in parallel to the Appetizers. The Appetizers have cool lead lines but just chord...
  2. Re: Jazz Mandolin Appetizers -- original tune names

    Thanks so much Don!! And especially thanks for putting this together. Although I listen to jazz all morning every morning on WBGO Newark I am not enough of an expert to figure out your clever clues. ...
  3. Jazz Mandolin Appetizers -- original tune names

    I recently purchased the excellent Jazz Mandolin Appetizers

    https://www.melbay.com/Products/22021BCDEB/jazz-mandolin-appetizers.aspx

    and am really enjoying working on it. Don Stiernberg has...
  4. Re: "Bill Monroe plays Bill Monroe" / an album edit

    How about one of the classic F&S album covers with Monroe replacing Curly Seckler?
  5. Re: Bill Monroe playing on Joe Greene's Fiddle Album?

    Thanks! He sure had absorbed Monroe's style! A great album all around.
  6. Bill Monroe playing on Joe Greene's Fiddle Album?

    Re-enjoying Joe Greene's Fiddle Album County 722 on Spotify. Mando is only on three tracks, well-known Monroe pieces Paddy on the Turnpike and Grey Eagle and Salt River ("Creek" to some). The breaks...
  7. Re: Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature - NMC

    Charles Seeger (Pete's father): "Plagiarism is the basis of all culture"
  8. Picking in the Pasture Festival Lodi NY Aug 24-27

    I'll be there... Andy Alexander books the traditional side of things, this year we get David Davis, who for my money is one of the purest exponents of the Monroe style, Tristan Scroggins (in the Jeff...
  9. Re: Free resources to learn playing in the keys of B and Bb

    A pro player once told me "your first finger is your capo" for transposing tunes with open strings to keys one, two... frets higher. The 2/3/4 fingers do what the 1/2/3 would do with open strings....
  10. Re: is buying a mandolin like buying a bicycle?

    I don't know where you are in Germany, but if you're near the Dutch border you should visit The Fellowships of Acoustics (tfoa.eu) in Dedemsvaart (near Bad Bentheim (D)) or Harry Boetzkes...
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    Re: RIP: Dr. Ralph Stanley

    I promoted Ralph and the "classic" Clinch Mountain Boys (Roy Lee Centers, Jack Cooke, Curly Ray Cline) + teenage Skaggs & Whitley in Ithaca NY high school in February 1972. This was during the period...
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    Re: Early Bill Monroe style

    Monroe Brothers were revolutionary in their duet harmonies, fast tempos, Charlie's bass runs and Bill's sparkling mandolin solos. He played lots of long arpeggios, very unlike what he did in the...
  13. Re: Report Substantiates North Korea Musical Instrument Concerns

    Speaking of golf (the famous 36 under par on first attempt), you neglected to say that the first time the Dear Leader took a mandolin out of the case he played all Bach's Partitas from memory using...
  14. Re: Bluegrass Breakdown--Figuring Out Bill's Break--Youtube Vid

    No, he goes to F the first two verses (A part) and then C on the next two (B part). He implies the F in the first break mainly with the A note on the G string (3rd of the F chord = F A C). If you...
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    Re: Fixing the Flying Fingers!

    I am surprised none of the above good advice has mentioned a key point to solving FF -- namely keep fingers down, once they are down, until they need to be lifted. In this way the "back" fingers on a...
  16. Thread: D/C# etc.

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    Re: D/C# etc.

    Slash chords are generally only for guitar or piano, where they show the bass note. This is usually part of a "walking bass" line. The guitar can play these fairly easily and since the bass strings...
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    Re: Rest in Peace, James Allen Shelton

    Wow, this just goes to show how fragile life is and how much we should appreciate every day we have. James Allen Shelton took Shuffler picking into the modern age and brought his own touch and tone....
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    Re: chop question

    At fast tempos and with a string bass most players just chop "and". But even then some get their hand into a rhythm where something light is indeed played on the beat. Even with a short upstroke...
  19. European World of Bluegrass coming up this week!

    May 29-30-31 (Thurs-Fri-Sat) in Voorthuizen (Netherlands), about 80 km east of Amsterdam. See the official website for times, band lineup etc. Of course the best part is jamming in multiple European...
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    Re: Time signature

    "Daniel Prayed" is indeed one good Stanley Brothers example: "he prayed to God [extra 2/4] every morning, noon and night...". The classic example is "Clinch Mountain Backstep" (although some people...
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    Re: bluegrass fiddler

    Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys!! OK, not bluegrass but Mon thought enough of them to record several of their songs (I Wonder if you feel the way I do; Time Changes Everything)
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    Re: Jethro's Mel Bay mandolin book.

    The book doesn't speak, Jetho's playing does. If that doesn't speak to you, so be it. I encourage you to dig into the book and pick out gems at random... so many cool ideas. Just the solos from the...
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    Re: Jethro's Mel Bay mandolin book.

    Buying it is the easy part... learning Jethrology is a long-term project!
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    Re: Standard Keys

    I think it depends on the composer (if there is one) for mandolin or fiddle tunes, if the composer was trying to get certain sounds by using open strings / drones. Pike County is a perfect example --...
  25. Thread: A 432

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    Re: A 432

    I thought Bertram's choice of 0.00001157407 Hz for the Love Frequency was referring to Barry White... but even Barry can not sing that low.
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