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Guitares et mandolines
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Tout en croquant des pralines
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I believe the singer in that scene was Fran Jeffries.

Love the original Pink Panther and the corny scene where this song is sung in the ski lodge. Even better that it has a mandolin reference !

No, but I found the following info (and full lyrics) on a blog page:

Song title: "Beyond Compare".
Lyrics written by: Marshall Barer.
Music composed by: David Ross.

YouTube recording: ...

Started when I was 20, having played guitar a bit. I didn't know any mandolin players.
I had learned and forgot some basic music reading from recorder lessons at school when I was 12 or 13.

I...

Great stories Dave.

(sorry, can't contribute - never had a teacher)

I have had a teacher for a couple of years. With his help, I have made much faster progress than I would on my own with YouTube. Occasionally, I attend a camp (virtual these days). There is never...

I would find time in your week to take a lesson with a teacher that plays mandolin - many of them have 30 minute lessons. May as well get started off on the right foot so to speak, picking a mando...

Here's the obverse of that story, sort of. My older daughter took lessons from early on from a respected school in the next town. Her teachers were all Juilliard students, very well trained and...

Music in my head came out by whistling and humming, then the head tunes ..
took me a while.. getting my fingers up to the task..

:whistling: this was in the cretaceous era, before the...

Interesting theory, although I doubt that is how it works. Mark was always a prodigy and we would have found out that regardless if he learned how to read music. I would be very surprised if he does...

There's plenty of good advice above, but I didn't find the transition from fiddle to mandolin all that easy. Picking out notes was simple, but what I was doing with both hands was quite different...

Round2:

I agree with everyone. With your past musical background, I wouldn't consider you to be a novice. Transition from violin to mandolin is quite easy. I also second the suggestion about...

10 years of violin should set you up quite nicely. I took piano and guitar lessons when I was a kid but never steady lessons on fiddle or mandolin. I wish I had violin lessons. I have been playing...

Hi Round2!

If you are not working (or did not work) with a teacher to learn to play the mandolin, how did you go about it?

I have never worked with a teacher, except maybe just a smidgeon with...

Jim Bevan hit the nail on the head, and your response shows you have some musical experience. I’ll answer your personal questions from my own perspective.

The way I went about it at first was to...

If you are looking for a bluegrass instructor I can highly recommend Keith Yoder of Maryville, Tennessee. He is a multi instrumentalist and focuses on how to play well with others and on developing...

Having a spouse who plays is a huge advantage to learning a new instrument. When I taught myself, I had a book, some eight years of formal music training and the experience of teaching myself and my...

I started playing the mandolin as a side activity to playing guitar and slide guitar. So I already had a basis when I started. I have learned a lot from listening to blues mandolin players - that is...

IMHO, based on my experiences as both a student and a teacher, teaching is an art. A good teacher does not have a one size fits all method. He or she strives to understand how each student learns...

I started with mandolessons.com, and have been working through Sharon Gilchrist's Intermediate sessions on Peghead Nation. Highly recommend both.

Sounds like you're good to go. :)

I'd say just hunt around on YouTube for someone playing something that you want to play, study it enough to figure out how it's being done (physically as well as...

Those points are well taken, Jim. In my own case, I studied violin for 10 years or so (but never fiddle, I'm sorry to say), double bass for one year, and piano for three or four years. I noodled...

I would imagine that my reply would be true for many of us self-taughties here:
I learned to play another instrument before mandolin. I already understood how music "works" when I first picked up a...