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Congrats on the win! Nice prize to boot.

Robert

gpmando25,

Nice playing!!! Keep up the good work...you're going places.

A little salt, pepper, and garlic and you should be good to go...

...that's not what you meant, is it?

...I went back and checked it was on 02/20/07 that I saw the Tension's Mountain Boys (soon to morph into the Punch Brothers) in Hamilton, Ohio.

It also happened to be Chris's birthday the day of...

Achy Bonz,

Well, it's a little bit of a contested topic on the Cafe.

One school believes it is a fairly strict definition of the style Jesse Mc Reynolds created to emulate a banjo roll. In...

sblock,

I'm with Jordan Ramsey on this one. It's not just about the string sequence, the right hand pattern is the crux of the style Mr. Ramsey describes/defines as "Crosspicking". The alternating...

I was always fond of the "Travellers" album by Butch Baldassari, John Reischman, and Robin Bullock.

I saw him back in the early eighties, opening for Rush on their "Signals" tour at UD (University of Dayton) Arena. A most memorable performance.

Robert

Austin Bob,

I love math humor, even better when it pertains to mandolins.

I am drooling over these Gils right now.

Robert

Well, I broke down and joined the ranks. I received my "S" about a week ago. Enjoying it immensely!118394118395

Amen Old Wave! I live about 45 minutes from Washington Courthouse and remember going to Dennis's first location that seemed like you had to walk through a maze in an old building to get to the...

That tailpiece is a stunning piece of artwork! Incidentally, the rest of the mandolin isn't too shabby either. :)

Thanks for sharing.

You will get a lot of opinions on this, but with the blues scale you can cover the chord changes just fine. Listen to a bunch of blues on guitar and you'll see different ways this is handled:...

Don't know how much theory you've had to this point but here's where you basicically dive in. A 12 bar format is the form you'll start with and this usually is a I-IV-V chord structure. Does any of...