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Today, 2:24pm
As a number of folks have said, Adam, it's not like that everywhere by any means. In UK, I'd suggest it's mostly not like that (dunno about USA...
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Today, 11:58am
OT again, but there are some differences in usage of the word 'ceilidh/ceili'. A few have been discussed above. In the South of England the usual...
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May-18-2022, 12:27pm
I've never seen a person stick their hand down a catfish's throat at a session, but someone's done it, somewhere.
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May-18-2022, 12:10pm
For me, all of it helps - the sound gets you the style, dots on the page gets some kind of visual memory of the tune going (even if it's...
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May-11-2022, 4:02pm
That's not what happened at the session I mentioned - 3 or 4 people who didn't normally come to this place had hijacked an existing public session...
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May-10-2022, 2:52pm
The OP could try going to a mandolin camp where they teach by ear for a week. I used to go to Alasdair Fraser's fiddle camps (no connection), where...
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May-10-2022, 2:46pm
'The Swang's The Thang' (c. Stevie Ray Vaughan?) - maybe he spoke his ad in.
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May-10-2022, 9:48am
That's not meditative silence, Simon - it's fear. Everyone's keeping schtum because they don't know what tunes these guys play yet, and they might...
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May-10-2022, 7:36am
Slightly OT, but it sounds like you got good local sessions Ray. My take on this is that if an individual requires that the audience and all fellow...
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May-06-2022, 2:24pm
Re. the original photos here, is that one of those gold 'Made in China' stickers on the back of the head
stock at the top?
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May-03-2022, 10:24am
Thanks - the Tri Yann version is the one we used to play, until err, the trumpet bit comes in :) One of the comments on that YouTube is that Tri Yann...
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May-01-2022, 6:29am
Thanks guys - interesting, The Session has maybe six identifiably different versions of that tune. Hunt The Wren is a Manx version tune this band...
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May-01-2022, 6:15am
How do you all feel about using different gauge picks on different instruments - or do you use the same thickness on everything?
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May-01-2022, 6:12am
Well done! It should get easier from here on re. nerves, although I was surprised recently to find that an issue after the lockdown layoff.
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May-01-2022, 6:08am
It's going to slay then at gigs as your Mando roadie opens a drawer and hands you the next instrument!
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Apr-30-2022, 11:48am
To explain - I suspect this tune, although obviously popular in UK (as the number of versions on The Session would suggest) is originally a Breton...
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Apr-30-2022, 11:37am
I'm trying to simultaneously learn mandolin and a DADGAD tuned Guild jumbo 12 string. I find the difference in size stops me forgetting what I'm...
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Apr-28-2022, 1:12pm
OK, here we go again - but this time I know better what I want. Can someone recommend an irish/bluegrass/folk tune/w.h.y. mandolin book that has the...
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Apr-28-2022, 9:52am
Another Breton tune (I think) has turned up in a band I play in with an English name - 'The Wren'. I remember playing this years ago as an An Dro...
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Apr-24-2022, 2:15pm
I deliberately didn't give the title, Roger, so we could discuss the general concept rather than the book - but I better say it's not your book I...
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