Looking through that list of tunes, I realised that:
I would only confidently start one or two of them, (although some might be tunes I know but don't recognise the name)
I would be able to play a...
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Looking through that list of tunes, I realised that:
I would only confidently start one or two of them, (although some might be tunes I know but don't recognise the name)
I would be able to play a...
They'll definitely play all or some or none of those tunes.
My top beginners tip for any session:
Learn at least one tune that you can start confidently and steadily on your own. Don't play it...
I would play one first and then the other and not sweat too much about getting the attacks precisely simultaneous.
I don't think any of these outstanding musicians phone it in.
The passion and engagement they bring to their performances are what keep people coming to see them. Maybe it takes a toll on them,...
If the tunes are just 65 years old they're younger than me!
All good.
If they suspect they're younger they'd be blocking them for plagiarism or something.
Brunello , a bothy was a kind of hut or outhouse for farm workers. Hence the great northeast Scotland tradition of "bothy ballads" - often comic, but sometimes tragic songs and stories of rural...
Thanks John.
Brings back fond memories of playing impromptu sessions until all hours in the 1990s in the bothy bar behind the Invercauld Arms Hotel in Braemar with piper and local identity the late...
Mine comes and goes, with a will of its own. Often in my left index finger which makes my playing even clumsier than usual.
It all started last year when I was using a hedge trimmer. The vibration...
By the way, last year I encountered an Irish tenor banjo player in a session who tunes the lowest string up a step from G to A, so he has ADAE.
he said it's becoming quite common. This year I...
I mainly play in Scottish trad sessions, where you seldom get tunes outside the common G, D, A and related minor scales.
But singers will sing in whatever suits them at the time and guitarists will...
Airloom Recurve cases as made in Germany for Northfield mandolins are strong and light, but for two instruments would have to be a custom build, I guess.
if they would even do it.
...
I have a tendency to dig in too much and the first thing I do to counteract it is relax my shoulders and breathe calmly and steadily.
Well, that can happen to anyone but it does seem more the case with mandolin sometimes.
You go down to the pub thinking a good session of playing tunes will cheer you up, but for whatever reason ,...
Chris Thile said recently that pick technology is only in its infancy.
He compared picks to bows, which can cost tens of thousands.
But you can still learn fiddle using the cheapest of bows and...
My reaction to OP's post was that it was about playing in informal pub sessions or festival jams, rather than paid gigs.
Since he is in UK, and that's the way it is over here. Often in a pub you can...
I just got mixed up with sizes - in my post above, I meant that the 1.4mm Primetone sounds brittle.
The 1.5mm is fine.
Always hard to tell listening through computer speaker, but sounds good to me.
The Beyerdynamic M160 is around £800 in the UK and the Coles 4038 is over £1000, so I guess I'll make do with the...
I find the 1.5mm Primetone a bit brittle-sounding, in my hands anyway, but if that's what you're using on your videos, sounds fine to me.
The Yngwie Malmsteen one also comes in 1.5mm, white...
My favourite picks in the cheap-enough-to-buy-a-whole-6pack range have been mentioned:
1. Jim Dunlop Prime Tone 1.5mm large triangle. This has a greater bevel on the "up" side - as in this image...
Hi Tom,
In my opinion there's no better UK maker of high end mandolins in the classic Gibson style than Mike Vanden.
I tried a couple of his new instruments last year and although he doesn't often...
Sometimes referred to as Freddie Green style, but I don't know if in a Nashville context.
And there was more to Freddie's style than changing chords every downbeat.
https://www.freddiegreen.org/
Some tasty double stops there but seems do-able.
The recording's in Eb though, so would be challenging to play along with it if you're not used to closed-position playing.
I'm sorry but I don't...
Some of the lines also crop up in "Stealin' " (e.g. "don't believe I'm sinkin? look at the hole I'm in")
I saw Steve a number of times last week on the Outlaw Country Cruise and he seemed good shape mentally.
he even dedicated a song to JTE (d. Aug 20, 2020) which, understandably, he'd found too...