BTW you might like to correct a little clitch. Your 'previous' and 'next' buttons (below the inset video window) work the wrong way round on all the mandolin pages!
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BTW you might like to correct a little clitch. Your 'previous' and 'next' buttons (below the inset video window) work the wrong way round on all the mandolin pages!
Hi Anthony,
I came across your lessons from this thread in the Theory, Tips and Techniques section of the discussion board. Your 'secret' is out!
I like the videos. I've found stuff in the...
Thanks for the reply.
I'm not a million miles from Dave Freshwater (probably about 100 miles though - 200 for the round trip... it starts adding up). There is a guy locally who has a good...
People talk a lot about getting their mandolins set up. I have never had any instrument 'set up' before. I've had my mando (a Freshwater A-style) for about two years with no problems. I'm happy with...
My mando has not been setup since I bought it. I change the strings myself so I've no cause to visit a luthier normally. I expected it to be fairly well setup to start with as it was handmade by a...
Jeff, invite your friend to play Scott Skinner's tune 'The Mathemetician'. There is no way this fiddler can't claim Scott Skinner isn't traditional since he wrote a huge slew of what are now...
That's partly why I tried shifting Drowsy Maggie up the neck. The gain was off-set a bit by having to bar the heavier guage strings.
I think the tension in the strings is higher in a mandolin and...
Glauber - Fair point (except 'nylon' was invented a little after Ludwig's time but I know what you mean!) - perhaps he was clairvoyant. I'm sure he had it in for us...
He did! That's him on the right isn't it? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
I agree. I try to avoid doing that if possible and use my second finger to tuck over or play the previous note with my pinky and tuck over with the third. Sometimes my pinky-avoidance strategy can...
The good ol' BBC has a 'Virtual Session' - if you can have such a thing.
If finding other people to play with is a problem or you want to have a go learning by ear. It's worth a try, especially as...
5Th are a pain and I'm working on the same issue. I came across some advice from Simon Mayor that is pretty much as you describe.
You can tuck a finger (the pinkie) behing OR you could slip a...
When I strated out on the mando I tried the upsidedown guitar approach. John Mcgann is right except that the problematic B string doesn't enter into the equation because, in our upside down world it...
...don't keep me in suspence... what about the five after that?
Bagpipes and hurdygurdies are good examples of instruments with built-in drones.
The sympathetic strings under the soundboards of sitars and trumpet-marines (AKA The Nun's Trumpet - it's a...
No-one replied so I will wade in with some unhelpful remarks.
Are you sure it's down to your third finger in all situations or is it more specifically when you hammer-on with the third finger...
I tap either foot depending on nothing inparticular. I will tap heel or toe depending on how I'm sitting and sometimes I tap both feet, but then, like Sunburst, I have dabbled in drums and although I...
I don't know the book you're refering to but I posted some links in this thread: Looking for beginner celtic tunes
Don't be put off by the thread title because there is plenty of intermediate and...
There is an endless source of Celtic music on The Session website (thousands of tunes). Again, the tunes are in ABC and you can use a free ABC untility such as ABC Navigator to convert the ABC format...
There's a million ways to count it but take a 12/8 tune (say) 1-2-3, 2-2-3, 3-2-3, 4-2-3.
Now think 1-2-3, 2-2-3, 3-2-3, 4-2-3 and actually think the emphasis (shout it in your head). I'm not...
Diddly
Ta-te-ti (I got this one years ago out of a beginner's book on how to play Irish Mandolin)
Strawberry
The thing I like about the first two is they can help with the 'derivatives' triplets...
Just sing the song as 'diddlies'
Lots of people have lots of ways of 'getting' the rhythm (often involving the names of fruit). But if you're learning by ear the just sing in a 'diddly' style and...
I have read advice from more than one reputable source that specifically says NOT to put the pad of the thumb in the middle of the back of the neck (this includes Simon Mayor, Bickford and Padraig...
Two finger chords are great and I see them as the same difference between open chords on the guitar and barre chords (that's only relevant if you play guitar).
The Bluegrass chop chord has been...
It's never been a problem but then maybe I subconciously do the 'upside-down guitar' thing that somebody mentioned (being a guitarist as well).
Of course, if you know the circle of fifths then you...