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    Re: Mandolin Mastery webinar training coming up

    Looks like it’s offered again on Saturday, January 15.
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    Re: Help this beginner

    Just saw this posted by Tim Connell in the jams thread: https://www.timsmandolessons.com/registration-page-363b4ae5-1113-477b-9067-8153de05187e. He did this free 90 minute seminar in December and is...
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    Re: Help this beginner

    If you are at all interested in bluegrass, I’d very highly recommend Sharon Gilchrist’s beginning bluegrass mandolin course on Peghead Nation. It’s a coherent introduction to mandolin that will get...
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    Re: Mandolin Lesson Advise

    Hi Randy — I have utilized a lot of online resources in my 6 years of playing but only started regular live (online) 1:1 lessons with someone about year ago. I’m very glad that I did — it’s really...
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    Re: New Player - Kentucky KM-150 vs KM-250?

    I hope you are enjoying your new mando! Before you dive in to those books, what about learning by ear? If you know some tunes from guitar (per Mike Scott’s comment above) just try finding them on the...
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    Ear training apps

    Anyone have any apps for ear training to recommend? What kind of progress were you able to make?
  7. Re: Banjo Ben Clark store, lessons and Eastman 515V

    Ben has great arrangements of lots of bluegrass standards, plus more gospel tunes than most sites if you are into that, plus other useful instruction. Online resources, in the scheme of things, are...
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    Keeping a practice journal

    Anyone keeping a practice journal? I’m considering starting one to help give some focus/intentionality to my practice, keep my repertoire in good shape, and capture learnings and ideas. Curious about...
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    Re: New player looking for instruction

    I wonder if the reason there aren’t many posts is because there are just so, so many instructors available online. Name your mandolin player, and there is a good chance they are doing lessons online....
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    Re: Seeking a virtual program where we can jam

    You need the audio interface, microphone, and headphones to use Jam Kazam. No way around it. I spent a bit less than $200 and was able to just plug and play on a Mac. Windows is more fiddly according...
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    Re: 3-Part Chris Thile Master Class online

    What did folks make of the content? I missed the first class but might drop in the others.
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    Re: Strategies for learning without teachers?

    I’m coming up on 5 years of playing, and most all of my instruction has been via video. Sharon Gilchrist’s courses have been great resources, and Chad Manning’s PegHead course on music theory is...
  13. Re: Which online lessons have a good interface for mobile?

    I love Banjo Ben’s arrangements; learning them has really pushed me. But the tabs scroll along the bottom of the video, which I wouldn’t be able to read on an iPhone.
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    Re: peghead nation?

    I started 4 years ago with the beginner mandolin course on Peghead and I am very glad I did. There are other great online resources, but many of them are a la carte versus a course. Sharon’s beginner...
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    Re: Subscription Tutorial Sites

    I really like Sharon Gilchrist’s courses on PegHead Nation...it’s good to have a curriculum to move through. She gives lots of technical tips as she is teaching songs, and explains the music theory...
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    Re: What’s your travel case?

    I bought a $40 slightly padded tennis racket bag for my travel mando. I fly almost every week for work. Sometimes I put some clothes in there with it, sometimes I put a tennis racket in as well. I...
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    Re: Should I take my Eastman MD305 on vacation?

    Take it! There are recent threads on this site that pretty definitively answered the question of whether you can carry your mando on. The answer is yes. In fact several posters said that for some...
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    Re: What's the most fun way to learn the fretboard

    Learning the main bluegrass arpeggios got me to learn the fretboard better. I also used Fretboard Learn (mentioned above) on my phone. Not even an hour’s worth of time using the app spread out in 3-5...
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    Re: Under Seat on Plane?

    I have flown 10 times with a mandolin in the last two years or so. For most of those flights I have hung my mandolin, with a flight attendant's permission, in the closet just as you enter the plane....
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    Re: Tunefox

    I signed up for the free trial and learned Little Maggie. I liked the arrangement — a friend likes to call it in our local jam and I couldn’t find any tabs for it until I saw it on Tunefox. I...
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    Re: 1 year of online lessons

    Hmmm....seems a little unfair to imply you had a bad experience without saying what it was. Your reason might be very particular and not applicable to what others might experience, or it could be...
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    Re: 1 year of online lessons

    I agree. Try them all out. I like Banjo Ben’s song arrangements a lot, so I like to enroll for a month and learn a few new songs. Peghead Nation gives you the coherence of a thought out course; the...
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    Re: Don't be nervous

    If there isn’t a jam in your area, just start one up. I went to a jam that was too far from my house to be a regular thing, met a guitar player there who had also come from near where I live and we...
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    Re: Goals for 2019

    I set a number of goals this fall, the main one being to have about 20 "jammable" songs -- songs I can play fluently with some embellishment (i.e. multiple A parts and multiple B parts) -- by May....
  25. Re: Using Wunderlist to organize my practice time

    For now, anyway, I still have a binder, too. I practice at my desk and use my iPad and sometimes my laptop, so the paper isn’t that essential, but I do use it, especially for new stuff. I do find the...
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