Definitely most people who stop to listen do not tip.
Some things I’ve noticed:
- the more money you have in the case already, the more likely people are to tip. It’s like they are more likely...
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Definitely most people who stop to listen do not tip.
Some things I’ve noticed:
- the more money you have in the case already, the more likely people are to tip. It’s like they are more likely...
Oh also there is a jam every Friday night in Fort Langley at St. Andrew’s Church, 7-10.
It’s not Nashville- but there are mandolin players here :)
There is a weekly jam at the Anza Club on Monday nights - check out pacificbluegrass.ca for the schedule. Each first Monday of the month is a slow pitch jam for beginners. This is the best entry...
You don’t need to know any music theory to learn to play mandolin. There are lots of lessons that assume no prior knowledge. Start with mandolessons.com, it’s free. All the music there is written in...
Answers like “just figure it out” probably aren’t super helpful. The simplest thing is as suggested by another poster, move each note down two frets. You may need to move a note to another string,...
It’s hard to play a solo without knowing at least a bit about either the melody or the chords. However staying in the pentantonic scale as suggested above is the safest thing if you do find yourself...
strummachine.com is fantastic for this. It has chords for 1000s of tunes and the key and tempo can be changed with one click. Highly recommended.
I'm so glad you had fun and had some success! That's fantastic.
Haha sometimes they don't :) Generally the form is one verse though, i.e. once through the chords. If it's a long verse, or...
Here is a YouTube video from pacificbluegrass.ca on how to lead a song in a bluegrass jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doqTagfUafc
I'm not totally sure where you are starting from, but I will assume you can play at least basic chords in common keys.
This the progression I recall from learning how to survive in a jam:
Phase...
It’s on peghead nation in Joe Walsh’s course. The first 30 days is free. https://pegheadnation.com/string-school/courses/bluegrass-mandolin-jam-favorites/
https://www.mandolessons.com/lessons/fiddle-tunes/east-tennessee-blues/
I thought Chris Thile got it from a McArthur genius grant.