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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    Hm, what is the actual topic? Bluegrass+blues + instrumental. Blues?: A few examples given here could be called bimodal: melody in, e.g., the Mixolydian or the Dorian, over major chords. I don't hear...
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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    #4 is misnumbered, should really be #3. But it relies heavily on the vocal, perhaps the best blues vocal I've heard from a BG musician, Just take that line: "Hair like a horse's mane".
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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    That's simply a 12-bar blues in G, with no theme, just something they put together or improvised on the spot. Much like Bluegrass Special, in A. Bluegrass Stomp at least has a profiled theme


    A...
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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    thanks -- I found out after a few minutes,
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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    What exactly is a 57-1 turn around?
  6. Re: How do YOU play the C section of Jerusalem Ridge?

    Chris Henry presents it as Monroe's version, and that is chiefly what Monroe plays on the Baker plays Monroe album, except the fourth part which is left to Baker. Monroe's version is emphatically ...
  7. Re: How do YOU play the C section of Jerusalem Ridge?

    Why would anyone want to know that version, and why does Chris Henry teach it? It's a crude version of the actual melody, cutting corners as it were, played in an even stream of eighth notes, all of...
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    F&S at one point in their careers, often tuned a half step sharp. There are several recorded examples in Db (e.g., On My Mind), F#, and Ab. For medium up numbers, like Dim Lights, Thick Smoke they...
  9. Re: How do YOU play the C section of Jerusalem Ridge?

    There are four sections, and I suppose you mean the fourth. It can be done in either 2nd or 3rd position or a combination of both.
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    The story I've read is that Berlin reduced everything to F# major by means of some kind of lever shifting the keyboard sideways. Perhaps his understanding of the major scale was centered on the...
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    Paul Anastasio, jazz and Western swing violinist. Cut a beautiful swing album (We Ain't Misbehavin') with Joe Holley and Frank Hicks. Just two violins and a guitar.
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    Monroe did Voice From on High in Eb but I believe he tuned a half step sharp on that session. Guitarists, of course would much prefer to go a half step higher, to E, for the deep rumbling bass of the...
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    Thoughts on keys.

    The recent key on capoing took the expected turn, with almost no one addressing the actual *didactic* issue. One prejudice that was repeated was that certain "unusual", "difficult", "strange" etc....
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    Re: Rearranging strings on a mandolin?

    When I started out on the mandolin I never used chord charts, I worked out the chords myself, looking for chord forms that connected well, following Johansson's rule: In an ensamelbe, rhythmically...
  15. Re: There has got to be something better than Tabledit, right?

    What appears "comfortable" to the beginner may not be the ideal approach in the long run. What you speak of in the last half of your post is *interpretation*, and who would want any of that in...
  16. Re: There has got to be something better than Tabledit, right?

    The idea of "TABbing out" nusic is very alien to me, and probably my whole generation in BG, and related genres (I was born in 1944). In fact, on mandolin, in the early days, I never used any kind...
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    AT LAST someone who shows some understanding of the actual -- didactic -- topic. On just about any instrument, and in just about any genre, the basic advice given to beginners is, learn to play in...
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    The main reason mandolin players, as a rule, don't use capos (as special effect tools) is the high range and lack of sustain.
  19. Re: Is "Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite" bluegrass

    "Dawg" is an anti-label for what I would call a neither-nor music. And "new acoustic", an expression coined, I believe, by Darol Anger, even more so. A "synthesis" of manouche (without "la pompe"),...
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    Paul Anastasio.
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    Re: Thoughts on tremolo

    I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "pointing up wards" or (even less) "perpendicular". With tremolo I'm pretty sure I pick both strings on the U, because I have to stay in the plane of the...
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    Re: Thoughts on tremolo

    In this context, to me at least , "beyond" means "longer than". Seems to me that to some people tremolo is to be used anything longer than a quarter note.

    Not sure what I would do on a tune like...
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    Re: Thoughts on tremolo

    How can you tell? There are lots of features in my technique that I'm not aware of. E.g., I used to feject the common suggestion of picking both strings in the pair on the downstroke, and one on the...
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    Re: chord trouble

    To me many of the differences between mandolin and guitar are automatic: On guitar you are concerned with reaching across the wide neck, on mandolin along the narrow neck. Bringning your fretting...
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    Thoughts on tremolo

    I've said this before: tremolo is an expressive device to be used when it expresses something. I.e., to me it's not a default technique to be used on, say, anything beyond quarter notes. I try to...
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