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I have always thought that tab works best with some understanding of dots and that paper (tab and/or dots) will work better with a little help from the ears.

If Mandolin Cafe were ever to offer t-shirts for sale V-Neck should certainly be an option.

Me too. It took me a long to get this - Playing fast is a different feeling. If you want to play fast - try playing fast now. Slop it up. Sound like garbage. "grind it 'til you find it". Then...

Finding the right hat is so much trickier than finding the right strings and picks.

Hear the change from "peppy" to "draggy" around 2:30...
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Pretty sure you meant measures 11-12 as 7-8 aren't chromatic. Picking them all is going to be easiest and the best way to get the crescendo. This fingering is from one of the exercises in Marylinn...

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The very one is on that site.

Warming up and resting are very important elements of practice in my opinion.

Warming up is talked about more often than Resting. Taking time to rest muscles within the practice activities....

This video by David Benedict is really helpful for DUDU and string crossings7q46xxa9asE

I believe that the OP's purpose for starting this thread was really to get feedback about "Using a capo on the mandolin?" and not so much about the tune - Big John McNeil (aka Lord Ramsey's...

The first thing that pops out at me is that the liuquin has 4 single strings unlike the mandolin that has 4 courses of strings. Single strings lend to fingerstyle approaches better than courses. ...

I think the jumbo Big Muddy is a good choice. Following from what is generally known and predictable about flat backed guitar tone woods I would go with Rosewood or Walnut for deeper darker tone. ...

Well, I must say that "taverns" makes more sense but I'm hearing tarriffs every time. Oddly, almost every lyrics page I search says "taverns"

Tony sang "tariffs" or maybe "sheriffs" see 1:22
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Cool tune! No luck on tab but if you can read dots there's a version here: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Brushy_Run

and Erynn Marshall teaches it slow on fiddle in this video. She really gets...

Stringjoy strings are a new option. NFI. Maybe give them a try

Related to the concept of keeping fingers down while ascending pitches on a string is loading up fingers beneath a note.

For example: Let's say the note that a tune or phrase starts with is a D...

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I said goodbye to sweet Randy last night. She was a good girl. I believe that she truly liked my mandolin playing in addition the comfy place to curl up. RIP Randall Jean

Yes and Arabic numbers are used as the chords in Nashville Number charts. This is a simple version of Crazy. I'm not the best charting NNS but this is darn close to the Patsy recording.
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Nashville Number system is not the Roman numerals. They are 2 different but obviously related systems. Nashville Number System uses Arabic numerals.

The answer is YES. It is completely ok to shift up one fret, two frets, 3 frets etc. Don't even overthink it for a second.

No matter how much time and effort I spend (or waste) trying, my pinky...

Are you trying to rest the mandolin on the top of your right leg only like the guy in this pic?

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This would be difficult without a strap and yes, you're left hand would have to hold...

Thank you for sharing that Billy! I have been ate up with that song lately since Sarah Kate Morgan released this version in November. She has become one of my favorite musicians.

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Jokes aside, mandolins are more physically demanding than ukes. The mandolin is going to "keep you honest" as far as fretting cleanly, picking evenly etc. whereas the uke will be more forgiving. ...

Go for it. It will make playing more comfortable. I once did this on a very inexpensive (dirt cheap) mandolin that I was setting up for a friend. It turned out that the bridge and saddle were made...

Caleb, your tone and playing both sound quite nice to me. You mentioned that you only play every once in a while. "Buttery and smooth" tone comes from frequent playing over long periods of time. ...