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If that is you in the videos you are doing just fine right handed. No need to change to lefty. You have timing with your pickhand and dexterity with your fretting hand. I didn't see you strumming...

Wait, I thought Simon's enitre profile was AI generated.... :redface:

Number 7 should be number 1 or number 2. Maybe 1.1 at the least..

Always listen first.

Listening first is a good rule of thumb in music and most other things in life.

I have always thought that tab works best with some understanding of dots and that paper (tab and/or dots) will work better with a little help from the ears.

If Mandolin Cafe were ever to offer t-shirts for sale V-Neck should certainly be an option.

Me too. It took me a long to get this - Playing fast is a different feeling. If you want to play fast - try playing fast now. Slop it up. Sound like garbage. "grind it 'til you find it". Then...

I'm just testing this out to see if it lines up.


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Wow!! Now this is quality info. Thank you Simon!

I think this checks those kinds of boxes: Jake Jolliff with Joy Kills Sorrow - "Was It You"

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"Picking error" - When I have halted progress, especially halted progress related to playing faster, it is my right hand (my picking hand) probably 90% of the time. Small changes in pick hold, pick...

I'm glad this thread is kind of random and not just about the use of capos on mandolin. Here are some random "Thoughts on Keys" that are not mandolin specific. Some of these are just my opinions. ...

Finding the right hat is so much trickier than finding the right strings and picks.

Very good explanation of Nashville Numbering System! I am also not sure what the OP is asking but if it is about Nashville Numbering System and how chord durations are charted in NNS - this is the...

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Hear the change from "peppy" to "draggy" around 2:30...
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This is a good review. You weren't very specific about your budget $$ but the mandolins you mentioned or very similar mandolins to what you mentioned are reviewed here. If you order one that is...

Pretty sure you meant measures 11-12 as 7-8 aren't chromatic. Picking them all is going to be easiest and the best way to get the crescendo. This fingering is from one of the exercises in Marylinn...

https://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen/hm14.htm

The very one is on that site.

Warming up and resting are very important elements of practice in my opinion.

Warming up is talked about more often than Resting. Taking time to rest muscles within the practice activities....

This video by David Benedict is really helpful for DUDU and string crossings7q46xxa9asE

Why is it a bogus setting? Here it is: https://simplymandolin.com/flekd/angeline-the-baker/

The point that I'm sure the OP's instructor was trying to drive home was to play down on the downbeat...

I believe that the OP's purpose for starting this thread was really to get feedback about "Using a capo on the mandolin?" and not so much about the tune - Big John McNeil (aka Lord Ramsey's...

Both should turn the same way. Do you wrap the string around the post in the same direction on both mandolins?

The tuners in the picture above on that F-Style mandolin with the beautiful flamed...

I would say that the key of G variations on The Session were most likely uploaded for flutes, whistles and pipes and the key of A variations were likely uploaded for fiddles. There is also a D...

There are banjo/mandolin capos that will fit better. I have no problems with the use of a capo. I just checked out that tune (that's a good one!) and I would not use a capo on it. The A part would...

Caberguy, thanks for sharing what it is that brought the issue up - keeping the DUDU going with slurs/hammer-ons or pull-offs. That can be tricky and there are many situations where it gets trickier...