"fiddle tune ... at a jam". making mistakes while playing at a jam is the normal, not the exception. ideally you play through the mistakes, but if you completely bomb out, just wait for the tune to...
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"fiddle tune ... at a jam". making mistakes while playing at a jam is the normal, not the exception. ideally you play through the mistakes, but if you completely bomb out, just wait for the tune to...
"coordination between left and right hand, the pick hitting the string at the same time as the finger hits the fret". timing of the pick is of course cast in stone by the up-down pendulum motion of...
(cannot resist such a straight lead). "flying unruly fingers?" - well, play fast and you will have no time to flail them about. works for me. chicken and egg? make it work for you! but yes, there is...
in the other thread is the movie from the gibson factory, movie has a short segment where they install the frets. chop, chop, chop style, impressive, very industrial.
"I have two inexpensive humidity gauges". as the man had said, "never measure anything twice". you need 3 (or 5) gauges with majority voting in case one or more sensors are faulty. remember the 737...
cool project. went to check if you have Buddy Merriam's Monteleone, sure thing, you have it! here is the man himself in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yybK_gRQvA4
"bad habits" - playing fast ensures you have none. like running a sprint ensures you have no broken legs, you know how to walk correctly, you have the right shoes and you eat the right stuff for...
gah! honey, I shrunk Mike Marshall! that's a beastly machine with amazing tone. pete, thanks for posting it!
i just recently went through a machine-shop worth if allen keys until i found one (1) that fits my truss rod exactly. i wish makers would stick to metric sizes. the matching key was a metric 9/64...
you can put shims under the bridge to make it taller. plastic credit card material is popular for this, widely available and you can cut it with normal scissors. pile up as many of them as needed...
"the beat is slightly in front of them". that's right, I am told that for Irish music, fiddle should be slightly ahead of the beat. as result, guitar/drum are slightly behind the beat. the best...
i, too, hesitate in recommending a new person on an uninhabited island to make "no undo" work on their brand new mandolin.
but as a rookie fret-worker with no previous experience, I can describe...
numbers, man, numbers! are your too-fast fiddlers puttering along at 90 bpm or rocketing at 120 bpm? for a mandolinist, it's a big difference between the two. pedestrian technique and boil-the-frog...
"ideal X" is the proverbial spherical horse in vacuum, a simplification that allow simple computations yield results "close enough" to the real thing.
they are not necessarily good things. ideal...
a related question, did anybody do/publish force-stress analysis of bowl backs? for example, I was recently surprised to discover that bowl-back cant top wants to go up, not down like archtops and...
these days distinction between OM and Irish bouzouki is more marketing (GDAE/GDAD, octave/unison, high/low action, colour of strap, size of pick are all player preferences/customizations). the real...
"dead area at both ends of a vibrating string". this is the difference between an ideal string and a real string. ideal string has no stiffness and can bend at sharp (unphysical) angle at the...
I learned the version from the Fiddler's Fakebook verbatim, then listened to 100 youtube videos, F.F.'s version is pretty much identical to Kenny Bakers recordings, I can play along with all the...
"picking errors". you probably concentrated on this too much for too long and tired your brain to the point where it cannot play without making mistakes. step away, give it some rest, come back...
"Sugarfoot Rag", cool tune! would take me longer than 2 weeks to learn it, for sure. then to memorize it, to play it against metronome at slow speed, then bring it up to "dance speed". easily a...
fiddle hell is mandolin heaven. next fiddle hell online is April 11-14, 2024. schedule is now online at https://fiddlehell.org/schedule
lots of "usual suspects" for mandolin stuff, but also a few...
congratulations with your success! I am curious how the new machine is fixed in the slot - screwed in with tiny screws or glued in or just held by the top cover (the white plastic circle thing). And...
i would agree, forget trying to count it, play it by ear (by feeling). the piano man plays it in time, his downbeat is in time (try to walk to his music!), but melody does not match the rhythm in any...
theft and car break-ins. you lived in NYC, you know the rules. leave door unlocked, roll down the window, open the glove compartment, put a note "no money, no radio". does this answer the question...
@PT66, right, I agree, tenor guitar (and by extension, your proposed 4-string OM) do quite well on rhythm. it's taking a solo break that leaves me desiring for "more".
I wish you the best in your...