I never played tenor banjo, but I discovered the methods available everywhere when I got serious about learning CGDA mandola. The three books which really got me using mandola to its fullest were...
I never played tenor banjo, but I discovered the methods available everywhere when I got serious about learning CGDA mandola. The three books which really got me using mandola to its fullest were...
I have an Eastwood, and love it to death.
My personal use takes it, and also my Gold Tone GEM-5 and my J Bovier / eMando 5-string, beyond the norm. Fingerstyle jazz is easy with a good set-up....
Yeah, I wasn't thinking writer's block, but instead of capturing no matter the circumstances. Now, the more chaos around, the more I get on paper and tape / chip... and the more inspiration swirling...
Hey, Charlie!
I've had the same fantasy, being able to (variously) compose, write, practice, etc. I hope you find the space to do so.
In my case, I started folding activities into my day,...
Somebody did manage it.
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Details in the following topic.
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/163316-Don%E2%80%99t-shoot-me-Need-Gold-Tone-F12-Mod-advice
For those who are concerned, normal guitars regularly tune their highest pitched string to E4 at a 25.5" scale length. No Ovation I've owned has had a problem with it.
I also have an Ovation...
I've talked with Bruce many times, purchased from him, gotten advice on DIYwork, and am planning to have him do work on two unique instruments (Mix NewMAD oval-hole F-style with scroll, Walt Kuhlman...
A regular steel .007 will break around G#4 relatively quickly at 25.5".
An Octave4Plus will get there, but needs a clean string path, and will NOT tolerate repeated detunings. I say that in view...
No financial interest on my part, but...
https://republicguitars.com/collections/highway-49
...Republic has a few of their Highway 49 resonator tenor guitars in stock.
The scale length is...
Not quite mandolin, but definitely fifths-tuned...
The amazing and generous Tony Lombardo put up a video series exploring Freddie Green-style comping on CGDA fifths-tuned tenor guitar.
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Three solutions I use at various times:
1. I slide indo and out of notes. I do it judiciously and rarely more than one fret. I try to emulate how it would sound if I was just singing it, scoops...
I think I was at that particular workshop, and some of the tunes might have been "Black Rat Woman" and "John Henry." That and a few other workshops led to me taking lessons from them.
Nice guys,...
It's not the voice, it's the vocabulary and the accent.
Coming from a non-bluegrass background, I always cringe when a bluegrass player claims to be playing jazz or blues... and then uses all...
I'm from a part of the country where Piedmont blues was the main form being played. I was lucky enough to learn guitar from the late John Cephas, and formed my initial harmonica chops taking private...
Actually, gradually stretching *is* possible.
I suggest you play it 5 frets up, as a C chord. Put your fingers down and play it slowly (not chop) to be sure each string is fretted cleanly. Take...
For the benefit of future readers and to dispel any inaccurate rumors, here's the back of the Ovation MM68 mandolin, with a large access hole visible.
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This is inspiring.
When a piece of music grabs my attention, I often try to see if it fits on mandolin or mandola. I will also often cheat at watch videos which teach that piece on guitar,...
I do use and like three different 5-string fretted electric violins, playing them as violins and also as mandolins. I have a NS Designs NST active, their WAV-5 passive, and a headless passive acrylic...
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I hate strap buttons at the heel, because I use the whole neck. Please, make that optional at best. That's actually a deal breaker for me.
My main instrument is mandola, and I manage to play all kinds of '70s guitar-centric rock on it in the original keys (Doobies Listen to the Music, BTO Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Edgar Winter Group Free...
I normally accept that I have to build my own chord books for non-standard stuff. Here's the tool I use, putting in a custom tuning as per the instructions, looking at the resulting fretboard...
Sorry about the loss. The world needs more kindness.
Here are three cuts which led me down the math rock path. I suggest enjoying them in the order given, and either on a good sound system with decent bass, or on good headphones/earphones.
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Jill, is this the first you've noticed this user doing this? Personally, I think it's hilarious when he routinely resurrects my various topics on my 6-course 25.5" mandophone in full fifths tuning...