Thank you very much for sharing that link with us -- what a great tribute to a great man!
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Thank you very much for sharing that link with us -- what a great tribute to a great man!
I started with Finale 3.5 and have kept up ever since, then I also bought Sibelius 2.11 in a crossgrade special and finally learned it in version 5 and now I do everything in Sibelius. I also bought...
There are two very powerful notation apps on iPad: Symphony Pro and Notion. There are some others but those two are the best -- each has strengths and weaknesses. Both allow files to be saved in...
You don't have the pair of E strings on the mandolin. In my opinion you shouldn't be worrying about intonation until you have all the strings on the instrument because the additional pressure of the...
Excellent spreadsheet and wonderfully helpful! Thank you for sharing it with us! Great practice concept -- if people practice and absorb all that information for each key, even if it takes more...
Nice playing, nice tune! Dwight is definitely a national treasure! Thanks for sharing!
https://oldtime-central.com/category/musician-profile/ Is a great place to learn about musicians who specialize in old-time music. Especially Billy Martin -- his book of 500 Fiddle Tunes is a great...
I just heard about Dwight Lamb, who is an old-time fiddler from Iowa, who also play a lot of Danish tunes which he learned from his Danish grandfather. Lamb makes frequent trips to Denmark and plays...
In my opinion there is no single weight that is better for picking than any other weight. So much depends on the specific instrument, an individual's left-hand strength, picking skill, and musical...
In addition to the advice against leaving the mando in the car or closed in the case in direct sunlight on a very hot day, for people in colder climates, the same goes for very cold days also.
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If you want to move the keyboard around, consider whether you want "weighted" keys which make the keyboard very heavy, or whether "touch sensitive" keys will do just as well for you. True, the...
+1 more for the tonegard. When I started playing mandolin, I read somewhere (probably here at the Cafe!) about holding the instrument away from my stomach. I could notice a difference as a player,...
The Boss RC3 can handle loops of great length, so it could handle complete songs if desired.
One reason the results we hear are almost always positive is that people who go to the expense of buying something which has a negative effect on their playing often don't care to share that they...
You can use a microphone for the looper but you have to be very careful about how you aim the microphone. If you want to start playing around with the looper without altering your mandolin, using a...
Evelyn's books over the past 5 years, ever since her first "Evelyn's Big Book 2015," have been a great source of wonderful arrangements of mostly traditional tunes, with a few originals scattered...
Evelyn's books over the past 5 years, ever since her first "Evelyn's Big Book 2015," have been a great source of wonderful arrangements of mostly traditional tunes, with a few originals scattered...
I'm very curious about why the Peterson says "plucked rather than picked." Once you have tuned it with the plucked thumb, have you checked the tuning with a pick? I find that it's a bit sharper...
"Oh Them Britches" is a good and simple tune. "Bile Them Cabbage Down" is another one.
Rachmaninoff's "trick" was part of the "serial" school of composition (Schoenberg/Berg/Webern originally) -- it's an inversion of the original tone-row of a composition. So serial composers would...
The answer to your question requires a few questions before it can be answered, in my opinion:
1) what type of music do you hope to play on the mandolin? Classical, bluegrass, jazz, old-time, rock?...
I love that book and make great use of it both on mandolin and fiddle. I printed it double-sided, so it's only about 250 sheets of paper and there are coils which can handle that capacity.
Mike, to Pete's great advice I would add that you need to lose your natural desire to sound good when you start improvising. There are lots of play-along recordings that you can practice with in the...
Are you asking about how to get musical ideas that will sound good on the mandolin? Or asking about how to write them down so others can play them?
As it stands now in the U.S. copyright for older works which were under copyright in either their first term or their renewal term when the U.S. Copyright law was re-written in 1978 have protection...