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    Re: What's your new fiddle tune?

    Ashokan Farewell.
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    Re: Love for Ovals

    My next mando will be an oval. Starting to look like it will be a Mike Black A2z.
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    Re: Learning classical mandolin technique

    I have Marilyn Mair's book The Complete Mandolinist and I am also taking lessons through Artist Works with Caterina Lichtenberg. I've been playing mandolin about a year and a half. You can't beat the...
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    Re: The Beatles: Hey Jude (solo mandola)

    Sounds great!
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    Re: seeking modern bluegrass suggestions

    Not recent but you might try Steve Earle's album The Mountain, with the Del McCoury Band. It's got some mandolin on it and the songs are all originals.
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    Re: Sí Beag, Sí Mhór

    That was great. I thought I recognized the title. I have this song performed by Deiseal on the Narada Celtic Legacy CD but it sounds quite different.
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    Re: The Beatles: Let It Be

    Very nice.
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    Re: The Girl I Left Behind Me

    Great tune, I’ve been playing David Benedict’s version. There’s quite a bit of melody in that song that makes me think of the Pogues Waxie’s Dargle.

    Postscript: I see on the Wikipedia page it...
  9. Re: Jerry Hill Mandolins -- Anyone seen/tried/have one? Feedback

    I emailed Fiddler's Green about Jerry Hill mandolins a few months ago. Here's what they told me:

    "Well, there isn’t too much to tell. Jerry is a local guy (great fiddle and mandolin player) that...
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    Re: How special is this sound?

    To my knowledge he just makes stuff up, sometimes on the spot for those videos. I've been tinkering with that one. Here's the sheet music I came up with starting right after he strums the Am chord....
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    Re: How special is this sound?

    Can’t say I know much about that particular instrument but Carl Miner is an incredible guitar and mandolin player.
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    Re: Pro Monte Players

    Christopher Guest - Actor, Director, Musician

    Paul Glasse and a few others.

    https://monteleone.net/Artists-howard_emerson.php
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    Re: My album is out today

    This one's got some mandolin!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teNva9NaFZU&list=OLAK5uy_nAFTDK6ly9o7YiX8enJEYWu_nXPG8kVHg&index=5
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    Re: My album is out today

    Thanks! I tried posting one with mandolin but it wouldn't work.
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    My album is out today

    I released my first solo record today Tell Me Your Love is True. It's available on iTunes and can be heard on youTube, other digital platforms to follow. I play mandolin on 2 songs, Long Winter Night...
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    Re: Winder Slide, octave mandolin solo

    Sweet tune!
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    Re: This Tune Needs a Category of Its Own

    I like that, great tune.
  18. Re: Collings Tour 2009 and Serial No. 1072

    Wish I did, it's a beauty.
  19. Re: Need help figuring out the tuning for this song

    Maybe capo on the first fret - Ab minor?
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    Re: Second Breakfast

    I like it. Makes me think of the mandolin part in Spinal Tap (Stonehenge) and the line in The Lord of the Rings... "He doesn't know about second breakfast?"

    What are you using to record? Software,...
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    Re: Austin area Mandolin Shops?

    As a resident of Hutto, go to Lockhart if you can.
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    Received, thanks! Sounds good.
  23. Re: The weight balance between the head and body

    I didn't like the way my Eastman MD315 balanced either... especially with the strap around the f curl. I started putting a thin piece of leather under the strings below the nut. It balances great...
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    Re: Have tips for a songwriting course?

    Some of the material in the two books overlap. A lot of timed, sense-bound "Object" writing exercises.

    Example: Write for 5 minutes using an object (let's use 'Soft Bed' as an example) to get you...
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    Re: Have tips for a songwriting course?

    I have no experience with songwriting workshops. I bought a couple songwriting books, Songwriting Without Boundaries and Writing Better Lyrics, both by Pat Pattison, who is a professor at Berklee...
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