Jandante

At last in my retirement years I am getting satisfaction from playing music. I know my efforts are very amateur in the grand scheme of playing, but I have been playing ukulele with a couple of others on guitar in church, and now I am happy with my beginner efforts on the mandolin.

I attempted to take up guitar over thirty years ago, but the teacher I went to for individual lessons (big $s) just gave me 4 songs this week and 4 songs next week, with no interest in my individual performance, or more importantly to me, my lack of being able to produce a clear sound to my satisfaction. Next I bought a mandolin, but that teacher started on tremolo on the first lesson, and that was too overwhelming.

It is a great help that hubby plays several instruments well, which gave me access to the mandolin, and having youtube and so many online sites available these days makes a big difference.

Already I have found some new links from a group here, and while I may not have anything to contribute to the main forum, I am looking forward to getting help from Mandolin Cafe.

Thank you!