I started playing BEFORE electronic tuners were affordable and common!! Believe me , if you cared about being in tune with those you are playing with you would cover 3/4 of the mandolin rather than...
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I started playing BEFORE electronic tuners were affordable and common!! Believe me , if you cared about being in tune with those you are playing with you would cover 3/4 of the mandolin rather than...
Several years ago I was in a music store, picked up a “cheap” mandolin. Price was $99 case extra, it flat blew me away!! I figured if I bought another mandolin I would have to find another wife , so...
It will CHANGE the tone! Improve depends on the mandolin and what you want to hear
If all this confuses you, raise until you eliminate fret buzz
A mandolin’s tone changes so dramatically with a capo, I guess because of high pitch, short scale. That is why I oppose them.
How about Jesse McRenyolds cross picking, he has a real hitch in his. I cross pick more like a backward Shuffler which also means like a banjo roll you use different rolls a lot of times for one...
I think people change tuners simply because they can. I have played mandolin 60+ years owned several mandolins from slightly above a MSO to a Desrstone that takes a back seat to no mandolin I have...
I think someone called Wagon Wheel bluegrass. That makes me look like that
I agree the way to sound absolutely monotonous is ududidu all
The time
If the timing is right, the basic melody is right , what is one passing note. Maybe Monroe was wrong! Really playing your way
I disagree , if you playMandolin you need those chop chords, real chords and he is doing great on them. Bluegrass uses them on any speed not just fast and traditionally tone not just a slap like so...
This is bluegrass! I’ve heard one of Don Reno’s boys say they can’t recall their dad playing s break twice the same way. This could even be a transcript and she might be playing it different on what...
The hat doesn’t matter, one break and everyone will know how good you are regardless of what hat you have on
I guess it becomes a matter of taste, I thought the condensers all sounded harsh, love the ribbon on any acoustic instrument I have no idea on price of this ribbon but the others would greatly...
I’m going to recommend something that s lot of folks will flat think I’m crazy. For acoustic instrument with possible exception of fiddle I think a Nady ribbon mock is hard to beat unless you pay...
Ive always thought there is “one clef”
Eleven lines. Theses others are partial of that whole, only difference is where you start and stop the partial
All these post say this
Project is good music. I haven’t heard it but I don’t doubt that it is good music. Willie doesn’t do bad music. But it aint bluegrass. Every post says that!! Then why call it...
My experience had been that they don’t change much, they don’t even seem to go dead. They may would last forever except after a couple months ( I play about 2or 3 times a week) I
can not get the...
Because of this “drive” even slow songs sound almost fast! Listen to Flatt & Scruggs, and early Country Gentlemen, master of this drive, when they play l slower songs. It punches right thru you
First I’ve never heard an electric bass that did not have at least one of s couple problems
1) no depth -most BG bands using electric base have a hole bottom end because bass isn’t filling it. Bass...
May have Gibson strings on it
Get over your scroll fetish. A good Astyle is half or less than a good F, snd while not as eye catching as a F the sound is what Is important. If we were talking looks that
Lump scroll Is about the...
The top A style Kentucky A900 or 950 is at or slightly above his budget and is professional quality instrument that you won’t outgrow.
( did not say you will never want another)
There is enough things in music to confuse. If it has been numbered high to low for 400 years WHY CHANGE!!! Where is any advantage either way?? Seems to me s change got changes sake, which if a...
No pick up will sound like an acoustic. Best pick up is inferior to mediocre acoustic