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Rather than playing scales and exercises improvise along with recordings. Branch out from what you are comfortable with to new stuff. Close your eyes and play by ear. Make it hand/ear coordination...

Put a set of Thomastik flatwounds on there. Pretty buttery, though not a bluegrass string.

Check for continuity between the bridge and the casing or knob on one of the control pots. If there's no conduction between the two the bridge isn't grounded. If it's made like most electric guitars...

When I sing I just sing the note. I don't think about what note it is. When I'm playing right, it's the same thing. My hand knows where it is, like my vocal cords.

"Blues" covers allot of ground. Messing around now trying to find something the Clapton, Stevie Ray crowd would like, how about a Canned Heat style boogie? On the G and D strings played together open...

G minor is made for mandolin blues. Learn the Bach sonata in G minor and take it from there. Think Autumn Leaves.

I play both guitar and mandolin without looking at them most of the time as a way to connect to letting my hands go to where the sound is rather than to a specific place, like first string third...

G minor is a pretty good box for minor blues on mandolin. The instrument is well suited to it. Try "As the years go passing by" as done by several Kings, or "Thrill is gone"..Try em in Gm.

It appears to me that this BB Box business is talking about using a particular range on the guitar as a sweet spot for sound. This depends on the guitar, the strings, the tuning, the amp and how...

Might try lubing the slots with graphite from a pencil.

The business about wrist curls (a flat out cure for me) is from the book "Sports Health" by Southmayd and Hoffman. There's more info there.

The Sennheiser has a pop filter for vocals, though it's fine for instruments. A 58 is more comparable. 58s and 57s are about the same but the 58 has a pop filter for vocals and it's superior to the...

Put a third octave EQ in line, turn up till it feeds back, notch that frequency down...repeat.

I struggled with this years ago. I read about doing wrist curls to strengthen the forearm muscles which helps to hold the tendons in their proper positions which is where the pain comes from. I sit...

My first Eastman is a El Rey guitar. It is the obvious ancestor of the El Rey mandolin. It's a guitar with some contradictions. First and emphatically, it's wayyy neck heavy, so heavy it's hard to...

As a guitar player, much of my motive for getting a mandolin was to have an instrument I could play while flat on my back.

As a guitar player learning mandolin I like the Mike Marshall lessons allot. He's a good teacher and comes across as a real good guy. The learning curve is probably pretty steep, though I've skipped...

If the string rests on the tuner side of the nut due to the angle it's filed when you fret the string at say the first fret you are making more of a jump distance wise than the other strings if they...

How about these "neopolitan" picks..long and thin. I'd try one if I knew where to get it. I saw a clip of some serious chord tremolo on a bowlback with one, guy held it like a pencil.
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