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  1. Re: Strategies (or contraptions) to tame the flying fingers?

    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...
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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    Ronnie does a good job on the Monroe tune.


    https://youtu.be/OqGQ6Ll_TkM?si=KmL3GCWywuut9uuw
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    Re: Love for Ovals

    https://youtu.be/cDWmApnQ4ek?si=JPCvs1pX7TRKHAiR
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    Re: Love for Ovals

    https://youtu.be/JMKVCkVqJYg?si=iKkuwkuL_PD0UxFm
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    Re: Is anyone else scared of Bill Monroe?

    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...
  6. Re: Nice solo arrangement Sunny Side of the Street

    Maybe some very fine mandolinist will arrange and play a solo version of this one.


    https://youtu.be/uHEs0EbLU9M?si=a7DIGQWgo6Px4dj1
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    Re: Slow, sweet songs

    https://youtu.be/HQVRG7sKnx4?si=_oAIXCh701-HeQd0
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    Re: Slow, sweet songs

    https://youtu.be/kUAYCzGiSUA?si=b0SJ5MtVX6sTq_se
  9. Re: Nice solo arrangement Sunny Side of the Street

    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...
  10. Re: Is "Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite" bluegrass

    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...
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    Re: Right hand advice

    Andrew Collins has published a good video on right hand technique exercises.
  12. Nice solo arrangement Sunny Side of the Street

    https://youtu.be/EnLgww2w79c?si=1K9ZSMeVnoy9ymNE
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    Re: Mando and Fiddle duo's

    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...
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    Re: Mando and Fiddle duo's

    https://youtu.be/D7N9qnFQU5E?si=BMCfJQZ81hBqYlSG
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    Re: Mando and Fiddle duo's

    https://www.youtube.com/live/zRLxi0ZHQ_o?si=yIrlYDgboRqOFvuV
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    Re: Is anyone else scared of Bill Monroe?

    You better be scared of him! He’s more alive dead than most of us are alive alive.
  17. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    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
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    Re: What's your new fiddle tune?

    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...
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    Re: What's your new fiddle tune?

    Lately I’ve been listening to and playing Waynesboro.


    https://youtu.be/D7N9qnFQU5E?si=DjT8CZzVgRiPTZml
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    Re: Tunes that lend themselves to tremolo

    Blues playersused a lot of tremolo too.


    https://youtu.be/KBw_xKf4-3U?si=imvXXqKa88_LAPp6
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    Re: Tunes that lend themselves to tremolo

    https://youtu.be/Cok4aP1Au4M?si=K_Ied7kAg093ZhF6



    https://youtu.be/EFfQf27n1xE?si=iIC9y8LcHbwiJwFo
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    Re: Jesse Smathers "Aint Going Down"

    That is bluegrass with a clawhammer banjo.
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    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.
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    Re: Pick technique

    Mike Compton, mainly downstrokes.


    https://youtu.be/3l33fYfgIzs?si=cKozLlDIMtJfMoz3

    Sierra Hull, mainly alternating.


    https://youtu.be/zDuT1Ujze6E?si=HDz6xb2N3RrS-G8B
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    Re: Clefs are like subnets

    Tenor clef is used quite a lot in double bass music also. I play instruments written in bass clef, C, Eb, and Bb, and have learned to transpose for each from each. It's not as difficult as it...
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