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So I guess old lather-rinse-repeat method is the best here. Do you think there are any subtle changes to look for in wrist or arm motion as the tremolo changes from ppp to fff?

I don't recall seeing any threads exactly about this: A lot of mandolin performances I hear which feature really great tremolo, at least to my ears, have a sort of swelling and diminishing in terms...

Great performance! I haven't read the whole thread, but here are two possible improvements that strike me:

1) Let notes ring out (and keep your fingers down) for their their full value, i.e....

I love how the goats start to sing at the very end!

I use 2-4 in order to give me a solid one-five chord with my index on the root, and the best thing about no thirds is you don't have to think about major or minor. This can be expanded for a larger...

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Now we all know that there are predominantly major and predominantly minor songs, and we all know that major and minor are the same thing three notes over. This is very useful for soloing and such....

Many's the time that my band has kicked of a number in its original key rather than the one we all agreed to, or switched the key without telling me, the lead player. That's a real train wreck there,...

Like many people here, I rest my right hand (the corner of my palm) lightly on the corner and top of the bridge when picking. Lately, I have noticed that even slight contact is enough to generate...

I'm pretty sure the triplet run back upwards is just an A7 arpeggio starting from the low A with a G,G#,A at the top.

All advice is greatly appreciated. I think Don Julin's straight-forward advice about learning in the first position takes the cake for ease of access to the lowest notes, but I will be experimenting...

I've always had a bit of trouble with C# major. Using the standard positions, I can play very well up the neck with it (starting from the 6th fret), but those notes from low G through low C# are...

I use a special kind of tape made out of cloth. I once cut out tiny squares of it and stuck it on the center of my pick a few years ago, and it hasn't come off since. It keeps my pick from flying...

Old thread; new question. I still can't get my octaves to line up on the violin, whether it's open strings to fingered equivalents or two fingered notes. When I try, it sounds like something that...

135 (Eb C A)
--Am7b5, minus b7

Isn't anybody thinking that upstroke quality would suffer? I have experimented with thumb picks and found that, as the mandolin is much more length-of-fretboard-oriented than width-of-fretboard...

Looks interesting! How many major Israeli mandolin orchestras are there?
By the way, I think I can translate most of the song titles.

Shores
Forgiveness (or maybe prayer for forgiveness)...

Thanks for all the support and advice, everyone. I will probably look into getting some lessons to smooth out some more rough edges.

Sometimes by bridge angle goes completely berserk after a humidity change or my strings get old. Anybody else get that?

Specifically, what about traversing a chord like the open D chord in the beginning of Bach's cello prelude no.1?

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---2-0-2--2----2-0-2-2-------------------
--0------0-0--0-----0-0------------...

Hey! I just became a casual violinist. In other words, someone lent me his old violin. I'm doing okay on the left hand, but I keep getting my bow tangled up with wide, complex string crossings, such...

Not to hijack or anything, but does anyone have a short list of essential tips for untrained singers?

My harmony is limited to simple chord tones that I can both hear and sing, which turns out to be the ends of phrases and some in-between notes for which the harmony is easy for me to visualize. I...

I know this topic isn't mandolin-related per se, but I do think that vocal harmony is a integral part of a mandolinist's arsenal and performance value. That's especially true for those of us whose...

I think the advice about listening for the main cadences and then building on top of them is right on target. Is that book actually called The Real Easy Ear Training Book? I might look into that with...