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Wow, some great stuff here. Inspirational for sure... I couldnt read through all the pages so I apologize if this has already been posted but here are two of my favorites:

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I stubled across this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy1_vARLIp0

and I really dig that tune/style.

Does anyone know the tune? Is it an original/jam?

What style of music is that? it sounds...

RIP Jerry.

Im sure he had a couple mandolins and at least knew his around a few tunes...

When the Dead were "on" there was nothing like it. I am partial to mid 70's/One From the Vault...

..also scale patterns!

the patterns like 4 up from 1, then 4 up from 2... Matt Raum has a book with some exercises like this. He also has a column in Mel Bays mando sessions online but I cant...

I think learning fiddle tunes is the best way to learn to improvise quickly. Pay attention to the V I licks that end sections. In D that would be the measure or two that takes you from the V (A) to...

Not really a fan of bluegrass country. I agree that it sounds like country
music with bluegrass instruments. The exception being
True grass.

I am into many genres of music. I like bands that...

ah, its "DancLa"

thanks!

is dancia an etude book? I would like to get one and work through the whole thing. I have only been playing a month but I play guitar and banjo, have been playing for about 10 years. I can...

I am working my sight reading as well as my overall technique and I came across a website with a bunch of violin etudes. Right now I am trying Wohlfahrt Op. 45 no. 17.

I realize that each of these...

thanks, thats what ive been doing. I guess its just a matter of me practicing it to get it cleaner. I use my fingertip, i find that if i press right between the strings it allows both of them or...

I guess the basic question is how do you finger adjacent 5th's (like A (G string) and E (D string)? with one finger?

I am learning Minuet 2 from Bach's cello suite in G and I came upon a sequence of notes that I'm having trouble fingering cleanly. The notes are AEA with the first A being on the G string 2nd fret...

that show is in fact, staged. They give people things to bring in and "buy" them or discover theyre "fakes" Its just to make it dramatic, like someone else mentioned.

Maybe the first season was...

Hey all,

Been working on mandolin lately (Im a banjo/guitar player) and Ive been playing some fiddle tunes. Everything is going well except when I go to play backup it seems like im doing an awful...

thanks again.

Ive looked through my music books and found:

Oneils 1001 "The Dance Music of Ireland"
"English Scottish & Welsh Fiddle Tunes" -Robin Williamson
"Complete Irtish Tin Whistle...

"If you like Punch Brothers, God bless you. Revel in your superior taste but keep it to yourself and others who like them too."

OK, how about if you DONT like PB then god bless you, just revel in...

thanks for the advice everyone.

abuteage, that is an interesting approach! i think that will be useful for me. I already know the names of the notes so this seems like a good system to get past...

thanks,

as it goes now, I look at the music, recognize the note think "f#", then tranlate that in my head to the mandolin and play it. I would like to skip the translating in my head. Id like to...

I recently got a decent mandolin and I want to learn to play. I can fumble around with it now. I can make chords, i can pick ok, ive been working on scales to get my hands used to the small area...
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mikey likes it!

banjo (scruggs & clawhammer) and guitar player here in west haven.

always lookin to jam

email me at aol.com mikey5string

Joe Val Festival in Mass.

i got one, need one more .

Thanks!
Mike

need 2 Joe Val tickets (weekend passes) if you have extra e-mail mikey5string --at-- aol.com

thanks!
mike

im actually in more southern CT (New Haven) so thats a bit of a drive. thanks though.