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howdy yall, in honor of st. patricks day, im offering a free download of my recording of "whiskey before breakfast" from my new EP. fellow mandoliner matt flinner is playing banjo. please check it...

so what is the make of that guitar? and what companies employed the faux graining?

i would like to wish everybody a happy fourth of july, hope yall like this tune i charted out today (with thanks to the katharine lee bates and the great ray charles....)

America The Beautiful
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"I am looking to get a pocket-size device to record myself practicing, or a rehearsal, and play it back on the spot at slower tempo to be able to "put a magnifying glass" onto certain parts -- to...

Anyone know what that little trumpet is called ?

that would be your piccolo trumpet....its probably most famous (nowadays) for the solo in "penny lane"

dont forget
"limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns and calls me on and on across the universe."
i think that ranks up there with anything john has ever done....

and...

thanks jim, that is a cool story!

jim, PLEASE tell the story of the picture!

i just turned 1 year old, and obviously dont remember that night, but for almost 20 years now, the beatles, and john in particular, have been an endless...

youre right mike, my bad...

thats low to high, (down a half step from G to F#.... then, up a whole step to A)....D and A courses stay the same, and you drop one E course all the way down to a unison A....and keep the other the...

hey brian, it is in a cross tuning. F#/A-- D/D ---A/A--- A/E---hope that helps. good luck!

i recognize the last one as "maid behind the bar" i think it also goes by "judys reel" dont know about the one before it.....

oh, forgot to mention....steal all you can. nobody ever gets put down after being called out on a lick, its always "that was a cool flinner lick...."

yo tbone. play your major pentatonic instead. 1-M2-M3-P5-M6. throw in your major 7th to resolve to your one. i also like a Maj 9th arpeggio. 1-M2-M3-P5. let each interval sound out against the chord....

best mandolin cover......period. (imho)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHXBAPs-4cg

if you watch dierks right hand, he keeps playing throughout the end. and if you watch sammy, he stops for a split second at the top of the measure. if anything, sam was thinking the song was over...

uhhh...that's jason carter dude....

sorry ed, but i dont think we have any extra.... but if you want to meet up at disneyland, we could maybe pick a few tunes in the parking lot....:cool:

and martin, ill let you know if were ever up...

thanks for the quick responses guys. and extra thanks for the info eddie. i was on his website and saw no mention of disneyland, so wasnt sure if he was still there or not..... and im actually going...

hello all, i will be in the anaheim area this weekend and am staying across the street from disneyland. anyway, i am wondering if anybody knows if (and when) evan still plays at disneyland. i cant...

tim obrien

another favorite....

how do you know the toothbrush was invented by a banjo player???

it it was anybody else, it would be called a "teethbrush"

ok, time to pick on some bass players...

how many bassists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
1. one, but the guitarist has to show him how to do it...
2. none, the keyboardist will just do...

besides the waverlys, there are a few aesthetic differences, like the natural back/sides, pickguard, bound "S"holes, headstock inlay...etc. its also entirely built by mike, as opposed to being a...

hi hans, i replied to your topic through a private message. nick