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"The person writing the tablature" today is mostly a computer program. Glancing at a piece of tab I'm usually struck, e.g., by the abundance of open strings, often in contexts where they're best...

And Detroit is similar to Buffalo, Madison and Syracuse, except that Madison is colder and it snows a lot more in Buffalo and Syracuse. Spent years in each place, like I said no issues. Ymmv.

My acoustic trio covers "If I Had A Hammer" by Peter Paul and Mary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxqRFqaa3NY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxqRFqaa3NY

Music theory isn't a set of rules you follow to make music, it's a description of the music, and a language for describing music. The theory comes from the music, not the other way round.

Now we know why he started wearing big hats ��

I found this picture online and I just love it and wanted to share it. I just love Bill and Charlie’s duet stuff.
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Here is a version of Scottish musician and composer Dougie MacLean's lovely air written for his parents. I have recorded this along with my great friend and playing colleague Janine Ashall who takes...

Given the blank looks I get when I mention Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Carlo Aonzo - even David Grisman and Dagger Gordon! - to friends and family, I think all mandolinists are under-rated.

At...

You can look at Mandolin Mondays every week (thanks David Benedict) and see very good players who often are not particularly well known and could generally be said to be somewhat under-rated. There's...

First, thanks for the great responses.



Standard tuning indeed.



Surprise! Not feedback. Well, ok, it is, but not in the guitar amp feedback sense. That's the SOMA Lyra-8 synth. You'll...

Yes, the truth is that I have always thought that, "what a great musician he is"... he has recorded things that surpass in performance quality those of many "professional musicians" who are often...

Good points, especially when it comes to forumspeak.....:whistling:

I think on this forum we have a better than average grasp on language basics, especially when compared to other music and...

I was working in Florence some time back and was sitting in a park one morning playing the F-style mandolin I brought with me overseas.

A couple of Italian old boys came by to see what I was...

This is the fourth song of my Goblin Folk project, where I use electric & acoustic mandolin family instruments to create music that feral woodland humanoids would enjoy. It's a take on Andante Lute,...

OK, dots means standard notation. It's a really good thing to learn to read standard notation. I learned it when I took classical guitar lessons. There are several major advantages over tablature. It...

I have gone to a session where I couldn't play a single tune. I was taught to respectfully ask if I could record on my phone to learn the tunes and enjoy the show - Then go back home and learn those...

Here's a lovely slide that I first learned on the concertina from Cormac Begley. I was messing around with it this morning in a few different keys and discovered I really like it in C minor on the...

Thanks my friends! Here's another great John Reischman tune. Thanks to Tim Sweeney for turning me on to John. Thanks for the Listen!~o)~o)~o):mandosmiley: ...

Generally speaking, when I remain sensitive and try to figure out WHY a session is run a bit "differently" than I expected or am used to, I look closely and notice that there are reasons that usually...

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Right, but the problem is the relative humidity in the environment that it's going to be stored, not the humidity outside.

But as soon as you start heating that room, that relative humidity is...

(by the way, Fisher's Hornpipe and Devils Dream are well established in the American tradition, the latter known as "De'il Among the Tailors" in Scotland)

Indeed Ranald, we foreigners sometimes call it "the Canadian national fiddle tune" but we still mix it with Scots and Irish tunes at the ceilidhs.

Outside of formal dances and competitions,...

May I humbly remark that, when using other languages for comparison, one should be careful not to confuse grammatical and natural gender; they are not necessarily identical. A number of grammatically...

Ever since the removal of the fretboard extension, mine's been confused.