Re: How do you get better at the mandolin?
1. Try not to noodle apart from to warm up.
2. Play everything as properly as you can verbatim as from the source you learn it from.
3. Try not to play fast until you can play well.
4. Find a good tone and build from there - that way you'll get your own sound.
5. Play with others as often as you can.
6. Dare to make mistakes and get through it.
7. Listen to other mandolinists.
8. Don't spend too much time on the cafe, great though it undoubtedly is!
Add your own 9, 10, 11......
These are principles that I have taken time to learn and hope to aspire to at least most of the time!
GerryHastie
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
- Albert Schweitzer
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