Just think about keeping them down when you practice, and eventually that will become your default. I don’t think there’s a shortcut other than just working slowly through left hand exercises with...
Just think about keeping them down when you practice, and eventually that will become your default. I don’t think there’s a shortcut other than just working slowly through left hand exercises with...
Ronnie does a good job on the Monroe tune.
https://youtu.be/OqGQ6Ll_TkM?si=KmL3GCWywuut9uuw
I have osteoarthritis, but it’s pretty severe. My hands have been through a lot. The basal joint is espcially painful. The only thing I’ll say is that, after doing everything possible to minimize...
https://youtu.be/cDWmApnQ4ek?si=JPCvs1pX7TRKHAiR
https://youtu.be/JMKVCkVqJYg?si=iKkuwkuL_PD0UxFm
When I answer yes, I’m afraid of Bill Monroe, it just means that I have more respect and awe of him and what he accomplished than conventional language can convey.
Of course no one is actually...
Maybe some very fine mandolinist will arrange and play a solo version of this one.
https://youtu.be/uHEs0EbLU9M?si=a7DIGQWgo6Px4dj1
https://youtu.be/HQVRG7sKnx4?si=_oAIXCh701-HeQd0
https://youtu.be/kUAYCzGiSUA?si=b0SJ5MtVX6sTq_se
Journeybear is right! That is not me! I am a decent sax player but this is a little beyond me on mandolin. OK, a lot beyond me.
This is one of only two videos this guy has posted, and the only...
Sony, or Apple, doesn’t know from bluegrass music. As far as they know, anything played with a acoustic stringed instruments without a drummer is bluegrass.
They are not alone in that. Check out...
Andrew Collins has published a good video on right hand technique exercises.
https://youtu.be/EnLgww2w79c?si=1K9ZSMeVnoy9ymNE
There was, and probably still is, on youtube a long video of Mike Compton and a fiddler whose name I do not remember playing old time tunes one after the other.
I have not been able to find that...
https://youtu.be/D7N9qnFQU5E?si=BMCfJQZ81hBqYlSG
https://www.youtube.com/live/zRLxi0ZHQ_o?si=yIrlYDgboRqOFvuV
You better be scared of him! He’s more alive dead than most of us are alive alive.
I don’t know, but this seems like a good excuse to marvel at Tony’s right hand one more time.
https://youtu.be/XTiy8n8vlxo?si=vJt6yURb_N0eGHqS
Something to think about.
https://youtu.be/C8bDc5d79yw?si=ViFUvKoRHpaG7zY_
This is about the slowest tempo I’ve ever heard Bonaparte’s Retreat played, but it still has that hypnotic flow I...
Lately I’ve been listening to and playing Waynesboro.
https://youtu.be/D7N9qnFQU5E?si=DjT8CZzVgRiPTZml
Blues playersused a lot of tremolo too.
https://youtu.be/KBw_xKf4-3U?si=imvXXqKa88_LAPp6
https://youtu.be/Cok4aP1Au4M?si=K_Ied7kAg093ZhF6
https://youtu.be/EFfQf27n1xE?si=iIC9y8LcHbwiJwFo
That is bluegrass with a clawhammer banjo.
The voicing I would probably play for the A-6/9 and C-6/9 are 3 finger voicings on the G, D, and A strings playing the -3rd, 6th, and 9th. A-6/9 542, and C-6/9 875.
Mike Compton, mainly downstrokes.
https://youtu.be/3l33fYfgIzs?si=cKozLlDIMtJfMoz3
Sierra Hull, mainly alternating.
https://youtu.be/zDuT1Ujze6E?si=HDz6xb2N3RrS-G8B