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Jethro said in at least one show that his wife offered to pack his bags and cut him loose if she had to hear him teach one more student Sweet Georgia Brown.

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Historical Note
It has been said that Thomas Jefferson played one and was quite good at it.

I went through that on guitar. I was having unexplained crash and burns in jams on songs I knew well and had played hundreds of times. At Kaufmann Kamp I had Russ Barenberg look at my picking to...

Here is Bryan Sutton's tribute from a couple of days ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDwCBp52YA

Pick through the strings instead of lifting your hand or raising the pick out of the strings. Keep your pick motion in the plane of the strings as much as possible. It has to be worked on at very...

Typical bridge posts and thumbwheels are 5-40 thread. I believe they are available on Amazon.

Here is where a little theory can help a lot. The key is the home note, the note the song or tune wants to end up with. One of the reasons for changing keys is as you said to fit someone's voice. ...

Yes I have heard those kinds of blemishes on Gilchrists, Loars, Dudenbostels, Montelleones, etc. It is amazing what seems to get past those guys. You would think top tier mandolin makers would have...

There are two ways to play simultaneous notes on non adjacent strings. One is the hybrid method where you hit the lower note with the pick as you pluck the higher string with your middle or ring...

Even more important than on mandolin

LEARN TO PLAY RHYTHM AND ACCOMPANIMENT!

Before you start learning fills and lead learn to play basic open chord shapes C, A, G, E, D and F and how to use a...

There have been a lot of wonderful You Tube and Facebook concerts and videos as a result of things being shut down. One I have been following regularly is from Leland Sklar who puts out a daily...

If you ever might sell it then it is probably a good idea not too.

As far as stickers in general, i put stickers on cases to make them identifiable. I do not plaster the cases with them but I...

That is a legitimate concern and an OHSA requirement in shops. I have had exposure to everything from asbestos to Trichlor to cyanide in shops I worked in. Mistaking an unlabeled bottle of acetone...

I am not sure if this is what is intended, but rather than playing the bottom note in these examples, it sounds a little better if you played the actual written note. Every time there is one of the...

These are useful simplified chords to start out. The sooner you can transition to full four finger or three finger forms the better off you will be. None of these forms are really movable so they...

See if you can slip a piece of paper under any part of the bridge feet. If you can then fitting the bridge may help it a lot.

A carved top mandolin is like an archtop guitar. One is not necessarily better but they are different in the sound they produce. Archtop instruments, including mandolins, have more of a focused...

Just to add a little more clarity and draw some connections. The name drew me to the thread because Strawberry Point is a town in Iowa about 60 miles north of where I live. There is a bluegrass...

A Google search brought up some information.

This is from the site of Colby Maddox who was a fiddler from Special Consensus about the history of the tune.



This is from Tom Ewing's book:

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There are no cheap and easy answers.

JamKazam is probably the most user friendly. There is a program whose name I do not recall from Stanford that is supposed to be better as far as getting...

A lot of people when they begin either try to learn the entire song all in one chunk or to learn one note or a few random notes at a time. Neither way works well. learning one note at a time or...

For anyone reading this who who may not know, Billy Joe Shaver died of a stroke yesterday, October 28.
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If you are looking for a bluegrass instructor I can highly recommend Keith Yoder of Maryville, Tennessee. He is a multi instrumentalist and focuses on how to play well with others and on developing...

Now you listen here!!! He is not the Messiah. He is a very naughty boy!!

Johnny Nash, reggae singer who did I can See Clearly Now died yesterday,
Along with Eddie Van Halen. Helen Reddy and Mac Davis died earlier in the week.

It is a tough week.
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