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    Re: How to combat memorization tendencies?

    Memorizing isn't a bad thing. You're finding out how much one needs to rehearse what you already play. Eventually, you get so you "know" how to play the instrument enough. Tunes have brothers,...
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    I mostly play fiddle but on occasion play mandolin or guitar to sing a song. They let me set the pace if it's my turn. I'm not proud. I can only play so fast.
    I remember seeing Bill Monroe playing...
  3. Re: Overcoming halted progress and frustration

    I know everyone learns things differently, but this works for me. I don't force it.
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    Re: Learning mandolin as a fiddler?

    I kinda learned both concurrently. But violin took so much, mandolin took a backseat. Twenty years down the road, ima two finger mandolinist. I used to play both equally well. I play mandolin for...
  5. Re: Would this be a good invention, or is there another solution?

    Mark, I think I found a solution up at post #6. I just thought the thread drifted into folks looking for accompaniment solutions otherwise.
    As I said at post #16, I don't intend to gig with my...
  6. Re: Would this be a good invention, or is there another solution?

    There's also a YT channel called Bluegrass Backing Tracks. Not all tunes are hard-core Bluegrass. And there are many tunes in many bpm's.
    I can and have made my own backing tracks via multitrack...
  7. Re: Would this be a good invention, or is there another solution?

    Obviously. I live an hour from the next capable musician. $30 round trip.
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    https://youtu.be/a2wz876pUnc?si=0__JA762mz0J_jVa
    Obviously I'm not a proud man. Those footella vids got me thinking. Sometimes when all you have Is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
    I've got...
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    Being a fiddle player by trade, I sort of ignore keys. I've got in trouble. The vocalist said F# but she's a semitone off. I guess not really ignorant but have my private opinion. I've got caught...
  10. Would this be a good invention, or is there another solution?

    I want a gadget with 4 pedals. 1 with a root chord, one with a 4, and one with a 5 chord. The forth would be more configurable. Possibly a minor 2. Simply select a key, and a voice, maybe a bpm, or...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    I think Robert Craft said, All things in moderation, and moderation's the first thing to go.
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    Is lite beer even drinking? I've drank free Busch light all night, at no cost other than urine. But I would not waste good gin by trying to play at the same time.
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    Is this App Already Invented?

    I wanna make a video of me or someone else playing. Then I want to add a split-screen, and play along with the first video. Maybe up to 4 or 6 splits. Have it all synced up to the original/first...
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    Re: Nashville Chord changes

    So I've got this software. (Chordbot) You can declare a key then add chords accordingly. Let's say G = 1 = key of G major. One can add chords in either 2/4 time or 4/4 time PER CHORD. But I've never...
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    Nashville Chord changes

    If the chord changes 4 times in a bar: ___________
    If the chord changes 2 times in a bar: ____________
    I can see this on a chart, but does it/each have a name?
    This is If both have the same meter,...
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    Re: Gig material

    Pick a key. Then, either a 12bar Blues, or some easy chord progression, like 1-4-1-5. With a chord progression you can get everyone together. Then from there, it's a matter of attaching lyrics. A...
  17. Re: Is it true that Frank Wakefield can talk backwards?

    "Do you want me to kick this one off, or should I start it?"
    or, "What key of Bb should we play this one?"
    There's millions more.
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    Re: R.I.P. Jimmy Buffett

    He should serve as an example for every singer/songwriter that pulled the handle, and hit the jackpot. Textbook. If there was one for a successful man in the USA. I wept because, I thought he died...
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    Re: I'm jaded...

    there's classified ads?
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    Re: Your advice for playing a concert

    Pete Wernick, of Hotrize wrote a book, years ago, How to Make a Band Work. Everything, literally everything was considered. One thing stuck out to me. The last thing the MC says should be the name of...
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    Re: Your advice for playing a concert

    Not just just black Bluesmen. The enigmatic Chuck Berry, had to have 10k in a paper sack.
    Food for a song: "Johnny B. Who? Never heard of him. Not til I get paid."
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    Re: String numbering

    A bass is EADG. E being the coursest. G being the finest. And yes, guiding a student to go up a string, starts a comedy. Going up a fret, same way. If I were to do it again today, I would name the...
  23. Re: Should one learn mandolin/mandola before tenor banjo/guitar?

    My friend's only problem with the dola, is the scale length. If one is hip to the interval pattern, finding the note is quite intuitive. It's just a matter of reaching it. Why not fiddle?
    Makes me...
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    Re: Ability to Jam

    For some reason I'm notorious for being a day late. But this is where I sussed out how to play progressions in different keys: http://jazzmando.com/ffcp_studies.shtml
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    Re: Ability to Jam

    So, a week or two down the road, how's it going?
    My advice would be much the same: Don't wait to play with others until you get good. One gets good by playing with others.

    The mere act of making...
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