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in G:

G - A - Bb - B - D - G

repeat as required.

Last time around, play

GGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAABbBbBbBbBbBBBBBBB Gchord Gmchord GCHORD!!!!!!

if you want to experiment with diferent tunings why not get an electric bass? much easier to restring, and also way easier to sell on once you're done experimenting (ever try to pack an upright bass...

Hi! I have
(1) a Kalamazoo KM-11 flat top mandolin, and
(2) a K&K Big Shot pickup

and I'd really appreciate any advice/tips/counselling on where to place the pickup to get the best* all around...

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"You mean like Red Rector played?"

"You mean like Buzz Busby played?"

what you might be hearing are the different 'voicings' you get with mandolin chords because you've got four strings tuned in 5ths instead of six strings tuned mostly in fourths.

for example, an...

you whopped that boy with a ee-lectric guitar?

that ain't bluegrass!

next time, borrow a banjo.

.... because the electronic tuner knows better than the musicians .....

I got mine on ebay 3-4 years ago for not much ($20 or so).

if you search around youtube there's plenty of songs with him backing up Emmylou Harris to look at.

brown latigo lace from Tandy, noose at the button end, running bowline for the scroll.

And of course low-to-high matches the way chords are spelled ... unless there's people out there who say an A chord is spelled E C# A http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Guitar players (and there's a lot more of them than mandolin players) have been clamoring to get the Oak Clarence White book republished for decades w/no luck. #

Just buy the Homespun video. #It...

I've only ever seen standard guitar tuning referred to as EADGBE, myself.

I think the idea behind low to high is, you're looking at the front of the instrument (hanging on a wall or whatever) and...

Besides JS, there's some pretty impressive stuff by The Wizard Of The Strings viewable too.

Just head over to youtube & keyword search for Smeck.

Hall of Fame baseball player Edd Roush, in a radio interview ....

ANNOUNCER: It must have been a big thrill for a young farm boy like yourself to have the opportunity to play big-league ball and...

As I remember, back when Mr Bill was inventing Bluegrass, he had a day job hauling oil drums around in a refinery in the beautiful rural paradise of Hammond, Indiana.

So I guess if you REALLY want...

Ah! i was thinking both D's in DAD were the same pitch. Which would have possibilities, of course, but an octave apart seems more promising.

I tried arranging the frets to allow for quarter tones,...

If you want a REALLY GOOD mandolin that isn't excessively pricey - they list at $830, but you can get 'em for less - I'd say (IMHO) your best bet is a Weber Y2K model. Superb craftsmanship on all...

I never felt I was being cheated out of a couple minutes' guitar picking when ol' Leo sang "Pamela Brown" ...

No resetting the neck on my saz - neck & body are all one piece! Fortunately no problems with that though.

Mine has just the three strings - six, technically, unison pairs on each side & an octave...

Here's a description, to start with;

overall length 29 inches
nut to bridge 20 1/2 inches
17 tied nylon frets
black & gold label under the bridge says "GUNGOR / saz ve muzik evi/ Hoseyin Gungor...

Bill Monroe: Bluegrass Instrumentals

Anybody who can't find everything there is to know about mandolin on that LP just isn't listening.

You might just try "faking" an F chord: x301

Gets the job done!

Looks like a lute more than a mandolin. Incredibly high action, mmm?

Oh, bad bad bad. #Totally backwards. #And heinously user-unfriendly. #Throw that book away.

Instead, try:

Ed Roseman: #Edly's Music Theory for Practical People #(for general theory)

and...