How exciting! Have fun.
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How exciting! Have fun.
Thanks for bringing this old thread back up. I love playing cross-A (and sometimes cross-G) tunes on my fiddle, but hadn’t even considered that on mandolin because of the high string tension. But...
Try out Mike Marshall’s Great Book of Finger Busters: https://www.elderly.com/collections/all/products/mike-marshall-s-mandolin-method-the-great-book-of-finger-busters
Getting your pinky working...
It’s a great book, as are all Gordon Stobbe’s books. His Red Book of Fiddle Scales has really helped me on fiddle and mandolin.
Yeah, love this tune! I think we’re talking about the same phrase, but we play it a little different. I play E F# G A B G A G E C#. So, if I didn’t the index shift up to that G, it would be there...
Thanks, Bill. Sorry for my confusing terminology. All of these notes are on the first string. The numbers are fret positions. So, fret 2 on the first (E) string is F#, etc.
I was prepared for the...
I don’t generally have trouble with my pinky, but a phrase in one of my favorite tunes—Half Past Four—gives me trouble because, if I play it in normal position, my middle, ring, and pinky are all...
https://youtu.be/VweMZusa1S4
Jimmy Triplett and Bosco (whom I didn’t know played banjo, but should’ve figured!). https://youtu.be/m4C_GEI8ykw
And then their’s Chinquapin, an altogether different tune. Here’s Rhys Jones. Jimmy Triplett also plays it. https://youtu.be/YACoaVLxFQg
I love my honey amber Collings MT! Gloss spruce top/matte tiger maple back.
Wishing you all the best for a speedy and complete recovery, Doug!
In Appalachian old-time music, many (maybe most) standards that have “hornpipe” in their title usually aren’t played with much of a hornpipe rhythm. I’m thinking of some of the most often played...
Love my two McClungs!
Thank you both for the tips, Mark and Jim!
Do others shift into 3rd position to help make playing C tunes (and I guess F tunes?) easier? A friend once gave me that tip, but I have trouble working out where to shift up and shift back, and...
I would send my best wishes to anybody, but it’s especially nice to send happy wishes to someone (even though I haven’t had the pleasure to meet him myself) who sounds like such a wonderful person. ...
Excellent! I never bought it the first time around, but I will now. Hopefully I can get it signed by Chirps next time I see him at CROMA.
Great tune. I learned it from Dave Firestine and some other friends in Tucson. Some of us call it the Gilligan’s Island song. Somewhere in those lyrics has to fit: “A three hour tour, a three hour...
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That was my initial question when I watched that beautiful and fascinating video. I guess it’s not surprising that you can depict a regular and circular pattern (the sequence of notes in the major...
Mike Marshall covers this nicely in one of his Homespun DVDs. Salty Dog Blues is another classic example of “playing around the circle,” jumping from G (I) up to E (VI) and then backwards by fourths,...
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Seems like the consensus, not surprisingly, is that there are no hard and fast rules, and that the best guide is to do what works best and sounds best. For me, at this stage of my mandolin...
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