Yea, I don't know. Usually this is an excellent mindset. But to be honest with myself, I learn the picking when I learn the tune. So yea I play mostly DUDU, but that is because it is what the...
Yea, I don't know. Usually this is an excellent mindset. But to be honest with myself, I learn the picking when I learn the tune. So yea I play mostly DUDU, but that is because it is what the...
I have played a Collings MTO, trying it out. At Pickers Supply in Fredericksburg VA, if I remember right. I fell in love with it immediately. But alas I had a bit too much impulse control concurrent...
Or, to achieve similar tonal improvements through expensive luthier modifications.
Absolutely correct, sadly. :crying: Because I find it much easier to to get a good hat than to get good at the mandolin.
My goodness, isn't this the way its supposed to be? The break is supposed to be an improvisation in response to the energy in the room and the inspiration of the moment, not a collection of memorized...
That is a very powerful technique, and a ton of fun. I learned arpeggio shapes "keyed" to one finger. Put that finger on a note, and one can play the major and minor arpeggio for that note. I use my...
My favorite Kenny Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=DTU4_Apvplw
Anyone who thinks that is not mandolinning will have to deal with me first. :grin:
Some negativity is inevitable in these kinds of discussions. I know I have to overcome an initial pang or two. I know, in my case, it is a twinge of anger.
For all of us, our mandolin skills are...
No it doesn't. But really many of us are no longer trying to get closer and closer to the holy grail with each mandolin purchase. It is more that as we play more and more and get involved in all...
There are straps for bowlbacks? Oh, ... never mind. :)
Yes we have all heard our heroes, Chris Thile, Jacob Reuven, Avi Avital, etc., but lets not forget to include one of my all time favorites Carlo Aonzo. And if he doesn't inspire one to play a bowl,...
My nephew asked me, many years ago, "Uncle Jeff why do you play mandolin? Isn't that something musicians do?"
My view is that from the second mandolin on, one should spend as much as reasonably can be spent. Get a forever mandolin. As if you are never going to get another. Denial is important here.
Get...
A pick made of that substance found in the nature would, naturally, wear over time and provide the kind of bevel your playing would make. In my case right handed. With these virtually indestructible...
Beautiful!
If you include the whole world, I would guess that maybe half of the mandolins being played are bowls. Maybe a little less as of late as bluegrass inexorably takes over the world. There are many who...
Bowls are extremely fun. I play a Washburn bowlback, circa turn of the last century. Very loud, without sacrificing scintillating tone. It only plays delicate if you back off a bit.
I use it is...
Sweet very nice.
For my gigs this month:
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Bingo. And he did wondrous things that way.
I play with a lot of tremolo. Too much maybe. It is such a mandolinny thing to do. I cannot think of how tremolo would be done fingerstyle.
My...
So I have "lucked out". Many years ago (many squared years, since it has been many years since the last time I told this story), I purchased a Gibson 1923 A2 snakehead.
I didn't know what I had...
I would guess the Sobell would excel traditional Irish and Scottish music. And maybe maybe excel to such an extent that it is kind of optimized for trad, and perhaps not optimal for other kinds of...
I have experimented with calico tuning, AEAC#. Very interesting sound. It makes an A major chord when strummed open.
I had a collection of tunes written in various popular cross tunings, including...
I believe that having a participatory relationship with music, at what ever level, has such gigantic benefits and adds so much to life and being alive. So many life lessons, so many insights, so many...