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I'm Canadian so I like to keep my money in the Commonwealth, so I'm limited to Duff, and Gilchrist in Australia, Heiden, Weins, Muth and Sohn et al. in Canada . It's true but I'm kidding of course. I...

I stumbled on this. It's been great for me, though I already can read music:

http://shop.theviolincase.com/pages/Online-Flashcards.html

You can adjust for bass or tenor clef (The tenor is the...

Picklosers guide is gigantic. It really is a wonderful starting place.

I noodle a lot and find a lot of cool stuff, and practice it. After a while things come to me while playing a tune and I try...

Okay, so I'm not a great player and I struggle with actually using them, but google Pickloser's Guide to Double Stops-- it's fantastic and one of the first resources that got me really starting to...

So there IS someone else on the planet who thinks that solo on "Stairway.. " is WAY overrated ?

You should start playing the 'game' of "Memory Jukebox".

You have hundreds and hundreds of songs in your head already - start putting some of those melodies* onto the instrument. Make your...

I have and I know the feeling and I've always resisted. If my '61 Hummingbird ever goes on the block however....

Incidentally I don't feel like I betrayed the instrument I feel like the...

Jackson's roots aren't in bluegrass, they are in gospel ...so he's certainly the kind of person we need to keep out of bluegrass. (Yes, that's sarcasm)

Why the hatred guys? Jackson paid his...

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Beautiful, talented, and a great sport!

Nothing will stop a discussion faster than unforgiving absolutes and rampant semantics!
1. “Invented” - bluegrass is not the light bulb
2. “Didn't invent” - bluegrass in not the light bulb
3. Bill...

This is from Fred Robbins site of BG Festival recordings that have been digitalized...there is a wealth of Monroe stuff from the contributors, all downloadable into mp3 format. Poke around and...

OK, mystery case solved.

Not a scam at all but a seller's misunderstanding. The money was in his PayPal account all the time. He just wasn't aware that is how PayPal worked. One thing is for sure,...

Ridiculous. 'Old Time' music was invented in the '70s, from what I can tell. Prior to that, people played string band music or banjo music or square dance music or whatever they wanted, as attested...

Here is the first of a few videos with 3 members of the Modern Mandolin Quartet and substitute mandolinist, Lief Karlstrom playing my matched "Element" quartet at this summer's Healdsburg Guitar...

I'm not sure, but I think they call that device a "mobile phone".

I am sure this thread has been on here before but i couldn't find one. So I am going to start my own. So if you have some pics of your kids, grandkids or any other kids in your family playing...

:)) my thoughts exactly :)) Oh, John, just left Conroe a week ago Saturday. Saw a couple of neat cars East of the 336 loop on 105. (a white/red '65 Fairlane hardtop and a blueish green (mid 50's)...

And even though I didn't win, kudos to Scott for giving picks to someone named "pickloser" - they must need them!

Hey everyone! Vinni Smith here from V-Picks.
I just want to send out a big THANK YOU all for getting involved in this giveaway.
This is fun stuff.
I also want to thank Scott for making it...

In case it helps / if you're a number person I use semitones and remember them like phone numbers.
So with Jon's example in #16
= 2122122
= 2122131
= 2122221
2122122

There ARE rules in music, which is why we think of it as "music" and not just ambient noise. It's a complex system and the rules are only the rules because they are necessary for music to sound like...

This was a recurring problem when I was teaching at camps and workshops. Eventually, my wife gave me a customized shirt to wear during these events to try to preemptively minimize the problem.
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As the title implies, I recently went through alot of mind wrenching on whether to refret my Loar myself, and if not, who to have do it.

Lloyd was still sporting the original frets and after...

Wow.

Learning from a book isn't necessarily about learning to improvise. It's about learning the TOOLS to improvise. Surely you must agree that a good improviser should at least know the...

This is my daughter, Adele - 3 weeks old. My wife wanted to have family pictures taken...I said, "Sure, as long as I can bring a mandolin!". So, here's my favorite girl with a mandolin - my Brentrup...