Put a pick between your pinky and ring finger,this will ensure your hand is in a "fist" position. Make sure the main part of the pick is inside the fist and not outside scratching on the instrument!
Put a pick between your pinky and ring finger,this will ensure your hand is in a "fist" position. Make sure the main part of the pick is inside the fist and not outside scratching on the instrument!
Yes. (well….I can, anyway).
But the issue is also "are you willing to learn to think musically?" My teaching experience is that women students are less skeptical (or hostile even) to things...
Being a huge fan of Nate Lee (great guy, great teacher, great artist, and he'll be a great Dad) I read his recommended book, "The Practice of Practice" which addresses the issue under debate. The...
The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten is entirely based on the idea of learning musicality instead of how to play a musical instrument. In it the teacher Michael says that he cannot teach the...
Thanks Nate, for the welcome and the reading list... and congrats on the baby!
Should also probably clarify that the mandolin is my second instrument-- started very young on the cello and kept...
To keep with the analogy to visual arts—
In learning to draw you really need to learn to see. To play music, you also need to listen and hear. A large part of what musicality is, I think, to use...
Yes you can teach musicality. The people we think of as having it naturally still learned it from their environment. Something as simple as staying on the beat is part of musicality. If you get a...
Fastest way for you to pick it up would be to get Nate Lee's DVD or download https://thenatelee.weebly.com/. I picked it up at Kaufman Kamp and it will definitely get you going on pentatonics.
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I tried some of Pava's instruments at Wintergrass in 2017. They were all excellent.
Sorry to point out the obvious (or near obvious) but when you solicit info about a maker in this way...
Nate, yep, that's what I was getting at. With no frets on a fiddle, people who learn only on the fiddle can easily get lost in terms of what notes they're playing, or the intervals between them. It...
If you're interested in a good read as a starting point I would recommend having a read of Phantoms in the Brain by V.S.Ramachandran. It gives a good insight into how malleable the brain & self are...
If you go to the Wayback Machine, it's an internet archive, they probably have most of them.
https://archive.org/web/
Example:...
Perhaps Joe Mendel will chime in. If anyone knows, he probably will. He used to write for them.
Hello fellow Cafe friends and Happy New Year.
My wife and I travelled over the holidays to New Orleans and San Antonio before stopping in Austin for a few days. I had reached out to Ellis...
I posted earlier to this thread...complimented Nate's new instrument and gave a nod to DataNick's observation about MAS...
Just browsing through and noticed half of my reply is missing for some...
Now you need a Pava oval to complete the sound samplings ...
there is a Pava oval at Elderly I have my eye on, priced just a tad bit high for me.
I am to new and green to give a "personal" answer as I haven't really improved yet. Any way here are my thoughts as to what will help me improve over time based on feedback from my instructor.
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Thanks for sharing that ~ really good!
nice!
No doubt some use this method from Frank Ford's www.frets.com.
Congratulations...a great looking and great sounding mandolin...enjoy!
Lovely F5. I'm very curious as to how the A and the F siblings differ in sound, and would love to hear a side-by-side YouTube comparison.
Great sounding mandolin!!!!
What I do will change, depending on how fast the tune is moving, and what other instruments are involved.
If it's just me chopping with one other player (no guitar or bass providing a strong...
Pava Pro #197, purchased new from Seth Rippey in Lockhaven, Pa. Love it! Great setup as well as fit and finish. Sounds great. Wonderful round neck (don't like sharp V's). Beautiful blonde with ebony...