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Will the show be re-broadcast at another time? I didn't get in to work in time to hear the whole show, but what I'm hearing now is fantastic. I may start having to come in early on Mondays (I never...

Sounds like I may have to rent a car for a day just to go see him. I've only played my cheap Kentucky mando, and wanted to play some others to help me decide what I'm looking for in an upgrade....

No doubt, wheels would help...

I just looked at Hames' web site - about all they show in their catalog are low end pac-rim mandos. There's a Sam Ash and a Guitar Center in Charlotte, but I'm...

I'm going to be in Charlotte NC the first week of October for a conference. Don't tell my boss, but I figure by Saturday I'll be pretty burned out and hope to skip out and go mandolin shopping.

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3. If you primarily learn tunes by reading (notation or tab), try learning more tunes by ear. If you primarily learn tunes by ear, try learning more tunes by reading.

(Bill, could you expand on...

Bill,
Do you think the sound of the watermelon mando is due to the sound holes (lots of little holes instead of 2 f-holes) or did you do anything special with the bracing? Does the shape of the body...

Do it, Ted!

Your FFcP system really helped me understand the mando freboard, and is also helping me visualize the more subtle (to me, at least) relationships between the notes in a scale....

Well, I guess there's no quick fix. It all comes back to practice, practice, and practice.

I mainly use the TableEdit files from Co-Mando to learn most tunes - it shows both tab and notation, but...

The Thile/Marshall video is at Woodsongs. Scroll down to item 287.

I'm not sure Chris's posture is the example to live by, but if it meant I could play like him I'd gladly take enough analgesics...

So why am I having such a hard time learning it? If I already know a tune, notation will help me play it sooner, but I can't any more sight read an unfamiliar piece than I can read and understand...

Thanks for starting the new thread for shape notes....

MrT, thanks for the suggestions. I've taken a stab at trying to learn intervals before - maybe I can get further with it this time. I pity...

Thanks for the info, Tim. I have the Cold Mountain dvd - I guess I should pay a little closer attention to the bonus material!

Check out this site - Voices across America - Sacred Harp - there are...

I'll admit to being pretty weak in reading and in theory (which is why I have to puzzle my way through the more esoteric threads in this forum), but it doesn't seem to me that shape notes and...

Thanks for the great suggestions - it gives me some things to start working on.

Pete, those were some useful links - but I couldn't get anywhere with the "chord guesser" page. I could get as high...

One point of agreement in the ongoing Tab vs Notation discussion is that regardless of the visual method you use to learn a tune, ear training is critical to becoming a better musician.

So how do...

50, but my wife says it's nice when our 9 year old granddaughter comes to visit because I have someone my own age to play with...

Dave, In my opinion, you make one of the sharpest looking e-mandos around. I really liked the black-faced one that you showed us a couple of months ago, and this one is another great looking...

I'm working on Pigtown Fling and Maple Leaf Rag. I'm doing alright on Pigtown, but still need to build up speed. I've got the first section of Maple Leaf pretty well memorized but I'm still having...

I'm not really concerned about how it looks (actually I think it looks kind of cool - like I'm really doing something) but it seems kind of inefficient.

As a raw beginner I play a lot of open...

Hi All!
Believing that good technique leads to better playing, I've been concentrating lately on keeping my fingers closer to the fretboard while playing. I'm getting better, but I can't get control...

Looking at the gadget in the picture, it doesn't seem like it's helping his left hand much....

Even if used with the proper hand, I don't think it would help me. It's my thumb that gets sore after...

Jeff, it's the same thing that converts the smiley symbol (a colon and a close parenthesis into a http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif. A "c" in parenthesis is converted...