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Just out of curiosity why are you not going to play it for a year? Hopefully your health is ok.

To start on a path toward improvisation learn to play simple melodies that you know by heart. Pick out the notes one by one matching your voice., either humming or singing. Make sure you sing it...

Kaufmann Kamp is still the gold standard. It has a lot of levels from prebeginner to advanced and top instructors with emphasis on their teaching skills. Even instructors who were not as well known...

Sticking then slipping is more often due to the nut slots. Sometimes cleaning them then lubing with graphite will fix it. Or a string change. If the strings are too heavy of a gauge they will...

This song was my introduction to the Allman Brothers. Here is a version with Dickey front and center.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmetEMv7SfQ

A friend of mine was having difficulty with his phone one day and started swearing. Alexa told him: "We do not use language like that, Donald."

The expression rode hard and put away wet comes to mind.

I don't know if you ever listened to his podcast he did the last year or so of his life. If you haven't you should. It is priceless. It is near the bottom of his webpage at the link below.
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Secondary dominants (II-V-I) are very common. The chorus of Uncloudy Day and the usual way of playing Further Along have them. Learning to hear the II-V-I is important because it comes up quite a...

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Not to nitpick too much I heard that attributed to Chet Atkins. I do not believe Doc read music at all unless it is Braille notation. Not that I would put much past Doc. He was a rather amazing...

But that is just the bridge.

One approach is to learn to sing or hum the melody then play what you sing or hum rather than memorizing positions on the fretboard. The next step is to sing or hum variations and learn those. If...

Stew Mac sent out an e mail today with a couple of closeout items. They were electric guitar building kits. It read:

"Looks like we stepped on the toes of a certain big name guitar factory....

Andy Hatfield puts up a lot of nice guitar stuff on his You Tube channel. It is not organized as structured lessons but there is a lot of teaching material in there. It is bluegrass focused...

Sherry Mignano Crawford, who is sometimes a poster here, wrote the book on Italian mandolins in America. See the link below. It may have some relevant information for you.
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I am not sure if I was clear but all of the past sessions on YouTube have the playlists attached when you expand the description. Click on the word more

He said something in the last jam about...

I do not know if you are looking at Facebook or YouTube. I have linked to the livestreams on his YouTube channel below. On the YouTube livestreams, if you expand the description by clicking where...

So you have gone away from using small screws to attach the top and back to your test mandolin? Just curious what you are using for glue and why you went away from the screws.

Since no one else has dared to bring it up, it would be ideal for playing Rye Whiskey or Whiskey Before Breakfast.

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Most of the bluegrass guitarists I know will play out of E forms. However most bluegrass guitarists are flatpickers. Scruggs used fingerpicks when he played guitar. You Are My Flower, which is...

Just to clarify a point on intonation. With modern factory built mandolins the location of the frets is rarely a problem. Fret slots are CNC cut and usually accurate. Fret location can be a...

I am in the camp of step away from it for a little while. The longest I took to learn a song was just short of 40 years to learn Cannonball Rag on guitar. I would mess with it, set it down, come...

The zero fret only works for the other end, not the bridge.

What kind of bridge did these mandolins use? Could he get a new saddle from Gibson or whoever the bridge supplier was? Did they use...

Today is the 101st anniversary of Doc Watson's birth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLXs_Y0FvA