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    Re: Has anyone played in Ireland Jam Sessions?

    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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    Re: Has anyone played in Ireland Jam Sessions?

    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...
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    Re: How do you play “split” beat

    I would play one first and then the other and not sweat too much about getting the attacks precisely simultaneous.
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    Re: Thile and Strings 2/1

    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,...
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    Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    If the tunes are just 65 years old they're younger than me!
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    Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    All good.
    If they suspect they're younger they'd be blocking them for plagiarism or something.
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    Re: The Queen's Welcome to Invercauld

    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...
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    Re: The Queen's Welcome to Invercauld

    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...
  9. Thread: Arthritis

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    Re: Arthritis

    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...
  10. Thread: Thoughts on keys.

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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    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...
  11. Thread: Thoughts on keys.

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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    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...
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    Re: Combo Mando /Fiddle Case - Not Too Heavy

    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.
    ...
  13. Re: Developing a lighter touch on the pick and strings

    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.
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    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 ,...
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    Re: Good picks for beginner

    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...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    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...
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    Re: Good picks for beginner

    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.
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    Re: Beyerdynamic M160 ribbon mic (video)

    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...
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    Re: Good picks for beginner

    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...
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    Re: Good picks for beginner

    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...
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    Re: My Journey so far.

    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...
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    Re: Nashville Chord changes

    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/
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    Re: Magnolia Wind by Guy Clark

    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...
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    Re: Whats the name of this tune?

    Some of the lines also crop up in "Stealin' " (e.g. "don't believe I'm sinkin? look at the hole I'm in")
  25. Thread: Underrated?

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    Re: Underrated?

    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...
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