One short addition: playing while not looking at the keyboard gives one the experience of listening exclusively to the quality of the sound you’re producing- so you might get something useful and...
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One short addition: playing while not looking at the keyboard gives one the experience of listening exclusively to the quality of the sound you’re producing- so you might get something useful and...
I’m pretty sure this is NOT an original idea, but since I can’t remember it being shared here, I (somehow) quite belatedly realized that practicing in front of a mirror can result in at least two...
I really appreciate this conversation! One minute I’m trying to “get” Mike Marshall’s Arpeggio Practice DVD, the next being dazzled by TinaAdair’s shimmering arpeggio-driven Bill Cheatham solo at a...
I really appreciate this conversation! One minute I’m trying to “get” Mike Marshall’s Arpeggio Practice DVD, the next being dazzled by TinaAdair’s shimmering arpeggio-driven Bill Cheatham solo at a...
Great helpful and considerably informative conversation here!
Just want to add that a few years ago, I acquired a wonderful Fletcher Brock A-5 style mandolin which had been in Elderly’s showroom for...
Indeed- I learned that strap position that mirrors proper seated playing position and posture means one can focus on all the other details that optimize your playing-
LESS!?!- leave it to banjoists to buy “less” banjos-
Both of MY beloved mandolins- a 1990 Flatiron F-5 Festival and my 2018 Brock A-5 are each whole discreet and fully constructed
If I hadn’t just...
....Sometimes you don’t come home at all.....😔
Just want to point out that The Christmas Song on Grisman’s album was written by Mel Torme
Happy cHannukah!
Let’s add Gillian Welch’s: By the Mark
For me there's the undeniable dissatisfaction with my progress as a musician that pressures me to take this out on my still not yet fully appreciated 1990 Flatiron F-5 Festival I bought new 23 yrs...
I have found that learning patterns and scales by playing along to Pandora or my quite eclectic iTunes list, using root notes and the suggested positioning of respective fingers to play the melody of...