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    Re: Neck shape/feel: "V" vs rounded

    If Mandolin Cafe were ever to offer t-shirts for sale V-Neck should certainly be an option.
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Me too. It took me a long to get this - Playing fast is a different feeling. If you want to play fast - try playing fast now. Slop it up. Sound like garbage. "grind it 'til you find it". Then...
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    Re: How do you play “split” beat

    I'm just testing this out to see if it lines up.


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    Wow!! Now this is quality info. Thank you Simon!
  4. Re: Artist/Album Recommendations like Punch Brothers & Sierra Hul

    I think this checks those kinds of boxes: Jake Jolliff with Joy Kills Sorrow - "Was It You"

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    Re: Overcoming halted progress and frustration

    "Picking error" - When I have halted progress, especially halted progress related to playing faster, it is my right hand (my picking hand) probably 90% of the time. Small changes in pick hold, pick...
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    I'm glad this thread is kind of random and not just about the use of capos on mandolin. Here are some random "Thoughts on Keys" that are not mandolin specific. Some of these are just my opinions. ...
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    Re: New Mandolin Cafe Hat

    Finding the right hat is so much trickier than finding the right strings and picks.
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    Re: Nashville Chord changes

    Very good explanation of Nashville Numbering System! I am also not sure what the OP is asking but if it is about Nashville Numbering System and how chord durations are charted in NNS - this is the...
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    Re: Songs about moonshining

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    Re: playing late and drinking

    Hear the change from "peppy" to "draggy" around 2:30...
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    Re: Best Budget Mandolin? Advice.

    This is a good review. You weren't very specific about your budget $$ but the mandolins you mentioned or very similar mandolins to what you mentioned are reviewed here. If you order one that is...
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    Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Pretty sure you meant measures 11-12 as 7-8 aren't chromatic. Picking them all is going to be easiest and the best way to get the crescendo. This fingering is from one of the exercises in Marylinn...
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    Re: Hawaiian mandolin

    https://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen/hm14.htm

    The very one is on that site.
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    Re: Approaches to Practice...

    Warming up and resting are very important elements of practice in my opinion.

    Warming up is talked about more often than Resting. Taking time to rest muscles within the practice activities....
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    Re: Right hand advice

    This video by David Benedict is really helpful for DUDU and string crossings7q46xxa9asE
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    Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Why is it a bogus setting? Here it is: https://simplymandolin.com/flekd/angeline-the-baker/

    The point that I'm sure the OP's instructor was trying to drive home was to play down on the downbeat...
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    I believe that the OP's purpose for starting this thread was really to get feedback about "Using a capo on the mandolin?" and not so much about the tune - Big John McNeil (aka Lord Ramsey's...
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    Re: Upside down tuners on Eastman 814

    Both should turn the same way. Do you wrap the string around the post in the same direction on both mandolins?

    The tuners in the picture above on that F-Style mandolin with the beautiful flamed...
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    I would say that the key of G variations on The Session were most likely uploaded for flutes, whistles and pipes and the key of A variations were likely uploaded for fiddles. There is also a D...
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    There are banjo/mandolin capos that will fit better. I have no problems with the use of a capo. I just checked out that tune (that's a good one!) and I would not use a capo on it. The A part would...
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    Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Caberguy, thanks for sharing what it is that brought the issue up - keeping the DUDU going with slurs/hammer-ons or pull-offs. That can be tricky and there are many situations where it gets trickier...
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    Re: Un-learning - what an ordeal !.

    This is what I have noticed as well. That there are 2 ways people play it.

    1) Some play it with the crooked measure in the first C part or going into the first C part. The tab in post #9 shows...
  23. Thread: Speed Bevels

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    Re: Speed Bevels

    By "top (upstroke) side" do you you mean the 'thumbside edge towards the headstock' or the 'thumbside edge towards the bridge'?

    If it is on the thumbside edge toward the headstock that is...
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    Re: Continuous tremolo technique

    The first thing that pops out at me is that the liuquin has 4 single strings unlike the mandolin that has 4 courses of strings. Single strings lend to fingerstyle approaches better than courses. ...
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    Re: Flat top for blues?

    I think the jumbo Big Muddy is a good choice. Following from what is generally known and predictable about flat backed guitar tone woods I would go with Rosewood or Walnut for deeper darker tone. ...
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