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Discovered this a while back and it's just so cool that I wanted to make sure others had seen it. Uploaded by Butch Robins. Really shows the continuous...

I thought I'd share recordings of a couple of my arrangements of old tunes. Both of these tunes have sweet melodies which I think lend themselves to playing around with chord changes, etc. I'm no...

This might be my absolute favorite Beatles song from my favorite Beatles album. Here's my solo attempt at it. Most of it played pretty nicely, though trying to squeeze in some of Paul's bass line...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_XtLqiXDA&t=90s
My "MandAlone" CD is mostly slow stuff.

minor ii-V-i's are often sounded with alterations (b5,#5,b9,#9) added to the dominant chord. This yields a cadence that sounds more minor, jazzlike, and chromatic..also suggests a different set of...

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Yep. My first thought was "fingernails".



The wraps in the photo ARE going down from the initial wrap but would normally slide UP TO the inital wrap. That both looks neat AND leaves no slack...

I was not necessarily suggesting we follow the Parker example literally!:)



I've seen that happen when folks get an idea of what is involved in learning to play jazz. I had a folk fiddler...

Hi all, I'm writing to share my recently rediscovered Macrostie instrument, pre-Red Diamond, Rosewood back and side, European spruce top A from 1978. I just got off a lovely call with him after...

This is a used Eastman I traded for which I got in the mail today. I'm still working on the action a bit. There is a pretty noticeable bow in the neck. I adjusted the truss rod relief a bit but...

Update! The Mix Mandolin has been evaluated by a couple of luthiers at Dusty Strings and as Peter Mix predicted, the neck is straight. Only a minor adjustment is necessary. Thank you to J. Condino...

A different take on it.


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

Don, I built this one. You like? Here's another one of mine...

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I like to play it there because you can hit the open E at the same time and double. It sounds especially nice when you slide into the A-string E and do that.

I recorded the Siciliano from the G minor Partita for Solo Violin about this time last year! I've been hunkering down during my time off right now and learning the B minor Sonata in its entirety,...

Very nice!

https://youtu.be/CYeDpOiRn1M

I used my Grace Design Felix on 10mOhm for a while before I realized there was a switch on the back, it didn’t effect anything I could hear. Ymmv

Here's my take on it as a former navy electronics tech who dealt with a few signal attenuation problems due to improper impedance matching issues:

At every interface in a signal path, the greater...

While I'm at it here's another video when I did a guest appearance with Peter Rowan and the Tony Rice Unit to play "New Camptown Races" when they played at The Egg Albany NY on April 6, 2008. Tony...

And here's another video of New Camptown Races from a show I did back in 2011 with The Hickory Project and special guest Chris Leske on banjo. Hickory Project members - Anthony Hannigan on guitar,...

Here's a video of me playing New Camptown Races with the Del McCoury Band at a show back in 2007.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y61wf30jMM0

I'm an old fart, I remember when Roy Clark was honored as Entertainer of the Year, and for good reason. I study his work from time to time, or rather, I watch videos. Buck Owens was no slouch either,...

Almost Five Decades!
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Forgive me the long back story, but I think its awesome and an important part of what is to come, so I felt the need to share it...

16 years and one month ago I married Mrs. Awesome. The following...

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