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    Re: Has anyone played in Ireland Jam Sessions?

    They'll definitely play all or some or none of those tunes.
    My top beginners tip for any session:
    Learn at least one tune that you can start confidently and steadily on your own. Don't play it...
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    Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    If the tunes are just 65 years old they're younger than me!
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    Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    All good.
    If they suspect they're younger they'd be blocking them for plagiarism or something.
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    Re: The Queen's Welcome to Invercauld

    Brunello , a bothy was a kind of hut or outhouse for farm workers. Hence the great northeast Scotland tradition of "bothy ballads" - often comic, but sometimes tragic songs and stories of rural...
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    Re: The Queen's Welcome to Invercauld

    Thanks John.
    Brings back fond memories of playing impromptu sessions until all hours in the 1990s in the bothy bar behind the Invercauld Arms Hotel in Braemar with piper and local identity the late...
  6. Re: Developing a lighter touch on the pick and strings

    I have a tendency to dig in too much and the first thing I do to counteract it is relax my shoulders and breathe calmly and steadily.
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    Re: Good picks for beginner

    Chris Thile said recently that pick technology is only in its infancy.
    He compared picks to bows, which can cost tens of thousands.
    But you can still learn fiddle using the cheapest of bows and...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    My reaction to OP's post was that it was about playing in informal pub sessions or festival jams, rather than paid gigs.
    Since he is in UK, and that's the way it is over here. Often in a pub you can...
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    Re: Good picks for beginner

    I find the 1.5mm Primetone a bit brittle-sounding, in my hands anyway, but if that's what you're using on your videos, sounds fine to me.

    The Yngwie Malmsteen one also comes in 1.5mm, white...
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    Re: Good picks for beginner

    My favourite picks in the cheap-enough-to-buy-a-whole-6pack range have been mentioned:

    1. Jim Dunlop Prime Tone 1.5mm large triangle. This has a greater bevel on the "up" side - as in this image...
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    Re: My Journey so far.

    Hi Tom,
    In my opinion there's no better UK maker of high end mandolins in the classic Gibson style than Mike Vanden.
    I tried a couple of his new instruments last year and although he doesn't often...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    This may be the case with those punters who come up and buy us drinks!
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    From the accumulated wisdom of decades of pub session playing, and now in old age, I'd say:
    Start drinking (more than a dram or two) before start playing: results bad
    Start playing before start...
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    Re: King of the Fairies

    x2 - Nice one Dave!
    Just off playing two Burns Night ceilidhs in a row and the bandleader sprung it on me the first night by singing "Ye Jacobites by Name", with introduction and interludes of "King...
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    Re: Reason to Believe fiddle break

    Also Ray does great pictures of vintage buses these days.
    And Aberdeen bass player friend, Mikey Rae, now deceased, played as a session musician in London for a while.
    He played on novelty hit "The...
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    Re: Reason to Believe fiddle break

    At the time of the recording, Lindisfarne were outselling Rod Stewart.
    Of course they should have found out Ray's name before doing the cover notes, but the power imbalance then was not how we might...
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    Re: Top Current Makers

    Australian builders had access to some good local wood, but I think it's really a story of those individuals rather than a whole country.

    From what I know of Gilchrist, Duff and Coombe, they all...
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    Re: Living in Kazakhstan, ready for online course

    I can recommend Magnus Zetterlund's "Mandolin Secrets Academy" which has an eclectic range of music, including classical, jazz, bluegrass and Scandinavian folk, and Misc including some Irish.

    The...
  19. Re: Flatwater Fran (mandolin, mandola, concertina, guitar) waltz

    I was never quite sure who this tune was written for, except that it was someone called Fran who loved rowing.

    However this story about Flatwater Farm, run by Fran and Annie Tuite, in Michigan...
  20. Re: Flatwater Fran (mandolin, mandola, concertina, guitar) waltz

    Wonderful playing again Colin!
    Great tune and one you can hear at almost any session in Scotland and never get tired of.
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    Re: Top Current Makers

    The big recurring names are not only good but also prolific over a long period, so they have a body of work that can be judged for consistency etc.
    And perhaps a few whose instruments command good...
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    Re: RIP Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith

    Good work JB.

    Another precedent for your action is Scottish poet Robert Burns, who in the 1700s paid for a gravestone for Robert Fergusson, a brilliant Scots poet who'd died aged 24 and buried in...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Our Christmas Ceilidh was a sell-out last night and it does the heart good to look out and see everybody dancing.
    All available band members usually turn up for this so we had :
    Accordion/vocals...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    That's not fair maxr - the bodhran players always know it.
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    In my limited experience from years ago, and then this year when I'm mixing with more "Americana" and bluegrass musicians again, you don't need to be that loud because other musicians tend to drop...
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