But have you heard my fretless mandolin? :)
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But have you heard my fretless mandolin? :)
Thanks for all the replies, which pretty much confirm my suspicions. I've often passed this OT group playing and liked what I heard, but much prefer the role of the mandolin in BG. When I first...
I'm definitely a bluegrass mandolin player (as much as I can call myself a "mandolin player":redface:) but I attended an Old Time session recently. (too) Many fiddles and several banjos, one guitar...
I don't know the caged system, but a quick google shows that can soon be remedied! I've had some fun with CarlM's suggestion about the D shape -- so long as I stay on the 3 highest strings! But these...
Funny too though, I also started playing fiddle a couple of weeks ago and now just realized how often they play in first position and utilize those open strings. Waaaay more than I do on mandolin.
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But I always wanted to BE a cowboy! And I've been playing country and bluegrass music with standard tuning for nearly 60 years. Too old to start doing otherwise!
This looks like excellent stuff, Carl! I can't wait to try some of it out! Thanks very much.
Thanks. I'd assumed whatever pattern would need to be used up the neck where the frets are closer. Wayne Benson's Wayne's World of Mandolin has some fantastic videos that make understanding scales,...
I've returned to my guitar after becoming totally absorbed in mandolin for the past few years. Once I discovered how to find melody/harmony notes on mandolin by fretting with my index/pointer finger...
I use a heavy gauge on my main mandolin because I play bluegrass and a) need the volume and b) love the chop sound they provide.Recently, however, as I’ve been struggling with developing new skills...
Thanks for the update, Ivan. I've often thought about how you might be doing. Wish your news could have been otherwise, but glad to hear your spirit is still strong. You might enjoy reading Rachel...
ToyonPete, That’s perfect! Thanks so much, and Yes, I doubt seriously that Martin could read sheet music. Of course, with a voice like his, why SHOULD he?!
To judge from the underwhelming response, Jimmy Martin songs aren’t normally a part of local orchestral repertoires.... Any way, if you think of anything, please give a shout. Celtic tunes show up in...
Does anyone know where I can get free sheet music for Mr. Engineer? After years of working on learning how to play by ear, now my wife’s BG harmony teacher wants her to plot out the various harmony...
Ivan, You didn’t know it, but you were the reason I bought my Weber Fern! I think of you often whenever I take it down off the wall, and I’m going to play the best I possibly can for you. You deserve...
I might have “understood” that, but I was dead wrong! Thanks for questioning my “understanding,”whatever I had based it on. To set the record straight (since I had started it on a crooked path....),...
I don’t like changing strings, so put it off as long as possible. What usually gets the lard out is an A string that seems hard to tune (and stay tuned). I understand that the reason strings for my...
I agree that my learning is a mix of many approaches. I've become much better at learning by ear, but that's taken me a long time. If I hadn't had the option to learn some basic tunes from sheet...
Australia and the US are about the same size.....
"Why not start by copying licks you’ve heard and liked from the players you like best? YouTube is so great for this now, with its slow-downer feature." I do this to some extent, but hate sitting in...
Thanks, Mark. I'll check out the book. I have a lot of licks from the various exercises in Niles Hokkanen's BG/Up the Neck (an excellent book), but haven't figured out yet how to fit those in with...
As I plod ahead in learning the delights of BG mandolin, I need the help of Cafe activists once again. So I've learned/am learning to put together some breaks around the melody, esp using double...
Phil, I just got to the Tiny/Up TENT/Down TENT section of Laura's wonderful book. It is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. I had found some useful videos (some mentioned above) for using DS on specific...
Yes, my musical exploration thus far has been a delightful sequence of Aha/Eureka moments and epiphanies. I'm just itching for one coming up real soon related to DS! Thanks for all the direction....
Great! I'm working my way through it, but I keep getting distracted by Mandolin Cafe and by my mandolin!!! Lucky guy, me!!