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In my public school band, which I participated in from 3rd to 12th grade, we never did any sight singing.

Ear training is on my radar screen of skills to work on.

For me, I very much aspire to...

I think never having learned to read music gives you an advantage in learning by ear.

I learned to read standard notation as a kid. I also like it when the music has both, as I'm not yet there with my fretboard mastery, especially up the neck. I'd really like to get to where I can...

A major upside of Artistworks is certainly the personal feedback via video exchange. The downside is the delay (even longer now as attested by DaveGinNJ).

I subscribed to Artistworks for a year...

To paraphrase, Matt F said something like you think about it until you don't need to anymore (its internalized). To me that sounds more productive than to have never, or only minimally, thought about...

I'm kind of old, too, but am not yet an intermediate player.

I figure that unless you've got a heckava ear and an outstanding talent for pattern recognition, if you want to learn to improvise, or...

I kind of like the scroll. It looks like something from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (reversed).

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My oval hole SOL is female, the f-hole SOL is male. But then again, my F2 is also male (a pirate, I was told recently). ;)

I feel like the instrument itself will let you know :cool:

These have been up for awhile. I saw them months ago when looking for tuners for a SOL. If you think about going for them, I'd suggest you might be able to do better than the asking price.

(btw -...

Automated stations. No human disk jockies or human curated selections anymore either. If AI doesn't make the selections now, it will soon. So all the songs will likely be the overplayed ones that...

I think it would be great fun to play a mandolinetto on stage. Probably, though, you'd have alot of people thinking its a ukulele.

Wow, 2,000 posts in 4 years. That's quite alot. What do the kids call it now - a yapper - (and that's not supposed to have any negative connotation, they say).

I will say this, I feel like I'm...

I'm a fairly new player (4 years - wow they went fast) with a stack of books to rival Dan's, and I agree with DCHammers and Phaedrus157 - take a class. Hindsight is 20/20.

Don Julin's book is a...

I am curious as to why one would want to obscure the serial number in advertising.

Sounds like a great guy. Now I'm going to have to go read some of his books.

I'm not all that sure about this, unless you are already a multi-instrumentalist (which I am not).

I have mandolins, a mandola, an Octofone tuned as an octave mandolin, and did have (traded it...

My husband has mentioned to me that things he's had sitting in his cart have dropped in price.

I'm also interested in what happens, Dan.

I am consistently amused and befuddled by the differences between British and American English.

I just started Matt Flinner's Swing Mandolin Basics class last night. He is talking about tying together some of these concepts. As a novice musician just starting to deviate purposefully from the...

I think you're right, and that's why it is so very sad that it ended up in a flea market for $20.

Nice find and an awesome deal ! It would have caught my eye as well :mandosmiley:
Be sure to visit the Strad-O-Lin Social Group if you haven't already.
And welcome !

Here's three that I've seen live that were pretty dang impressive:

Ronnie McCoury
Mike Marshall
Matt Flinner

Too bad it couldn't have stayed in the family.

Ha ha, do you need someone to twist your arm? Plenty of enablers in this crowd :cool:
I've got you covered on the stencil.

One of those sexy pictures they put on the noses of the WWII aircraft, maybe.