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    Re: Best way to learn Mandolin with ADHD

    Rather than playing scales and exercises improvise along with recordings. Branch out from what you are comfortable with to new stuff. Close your eyes and play by ear. Make it hand/ear coordination...
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    Re: Attack, pick and string gauge

    Put a set of Thomastik flatwounds on there. Pretty buttery, though not a bluegrass string.
  3. Thread: Buzzing amp

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    Re: Buzzing amp

    Check for continuity between the bridge and the casing or knob on one of the control pots. If there's no conduction between the two the bridge isn't grounded. If it's made like most electric guitars...
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    Re: Live Mics for Mandolin

    There are plenty of mics old and new that are more directional which will narrow the focus to your instrument and allow more volume before feedback. I just know the old ones, like an AKG 451 or Sure...
  5. Thread: Audiation

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    Re: Audiation

    Don't seem to like the direct to fingers approach, got to filter it all through "understanding".
  6. Re: What do Famous Musicians Recommend about Practicing?

    While taking up mandolin as a Covid project I spent allot of time playing along with the TV with some foreign shows with opera and classic soundtracks.
  7. Thread: Astroturf Noise

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    Re: Astroturf Noise

    Clips spliced into a piece. I'd rather hear the transitions performed.
    For outside stuff give me Bitches' Brew.
  8. Poll: Re: Just starting out -- Should I really learn to "read music"?

    When I sing I just sing the note. I don't think about what note it is. When I'm playing right, it's the same thing. My hand knows where it is, like my vocal cords.
  9. Poll: Re: Just starting out -- Should I really learn to "read music"?

    Reading music reinforces the tendency to think about the notes as a place rather than a sound.
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    Re: I can’t find The Blues in my Mandolin

    "Blues" covers allot of ground. Messing around now trying to find something the Clapton, Stevie Ray crowd would like, how about a Canned Heat style boogie? On the G and D strings played together open...
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    Re: I can’t find The Blues in my Mandolin

    G minor is made for mandolin blues. Learn the Bach sonata in G minor and take it from there. Think Autumn Leaves.
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    Re: Blind Mandolin Players ?

    I play both guitar and mandolin without looking at them most of the time as a way to connect to letting my hands go to where the sound is rather than to a specific place, like first string third...
  13. Re: Can an instrument be too good that it stunts your growth?

    I like being casual with the instrument I play allot. Lean it next to my chair when I'm watching TV and playing now and then. Not worry so much about humidity and temperature. If I'd spent the big...
  14. Re: Best way to learn to play Smooth and Clean (not sloppy)?

    Close your eyes
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    Re: No plectrum but fingerpicking only

    I'm a thumb style guitar player. I play pretty much like I have a pick. I back pick too. When I first took up mandolin as a pandemic project, I tried to play the mandolin like that but not enough...
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    Re: Eastman 515 neck too heavy

    Try their Del Ray guitar for the worst neck dive of all time.
  17. Re: Wrapping strings around tuners too many times restringing?

    It might be a scientific study by the marketing department, but a selling point for the new style of guitar tuners that grip the string is that wraps are bad for staying in tune and provide some...
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    Re: 4 string El Rey Mandolin

    I've got the jazz guitar version and the pickup, a Kent Armstrong, is terrible. Great neck for jazz but no pop.
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    Re: Fan to cool the band

    Listen to a fan long enough and I start hearing tunes in it.
  20. Re: HELP! I'm Running Sound For the (sort've) First Time

    I hope you have a helper on stage that will control things there when you change bands. The helper needs to be firm with the performers. Have all the mics labeled. Different colored windscreens or...
  21. Re: Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?

    Can't say I learned anything from the video.
    I have played electric guitars without the amp allot...good for technique, really have to listen. A semi hollow telecaster sounds much different from a...
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    Re: B.B King box on mandolin?

    G minor is a pretty good box for minor blues on mandolin. The instrument is well suited to it. Try "As the years go passing by" as done by several Kings, or "Thrill is gone"..Try em in Gm.
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    Re: B.B King box on mandolin?

    BB like to play in B.
    Wes in D. Both played with organ bass allot so that had something to do with the keys they liked.
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    Re: B.B King box on mandolin?

    It appears to me that this BB Box business is talking about using a particular range on the guitar as a sweet spot for sound. This depends on the guitar, the strings, the tuning, the amp and how...
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    Re: Let's talk small, high-end, acoustic amps

    I googled the Boogies and the manufacturer site didn't list the weight. The other Boogies I've known have been about as heavy for their size as anything out there. Always a surprise for someone being...
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