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  1. Re: Recommended Resources for Learning to Read Music?

    All of the responses so far are good advice, but if you want a very highly regarded resource, check out "Standard Notation for the Tab-Addicted Mandolinist" by Debora Chen...
  2. Thread: Setauket?

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    Re: Setauket?

    I wonder if anyone would still be attentive this this thread? I found a most beautiful version of "Setauket"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aCwEBIhJII
    played by the Kansas fiddlers Tricia...
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    Re: Foster's Reel

    I do! I learned it from a cassette recording that Paul Kotapish made years ago ("Guitarfish and Mandolin"), but I never caught up with the Sam Bush original on vinyl. Could you make a PDF of the...
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    Remembering John McGann

    On this second anniversary of his death (April 6, 2012), I was struck nearly dumb to discover a video in which he appears that I didn't know existed. It is entitled "Mark O'Connor Meets Berklee",...
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    Re: V-Picks Giveaway

    Count me IN!
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    Re: Finger style on the mandolin?

    Here's Eva Holbrook singing & playing finger-style, to good effect, I think:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGD6Qk5wW_4
    She's quite a mando-monster with flatpick, too.
    R. Freeland
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    Re: Free V-Picks - Right Here

    I'm in, too!
  8. American Dance & Music Week -- La Honda, CA -- June 30 - July 5

    I'm planning on going for the second year in a row, to the American Dance & Music Week, June 30th thru July 5th. In particular, I'm looking forward to taking workshops with Ashley Broder and Sam...
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    Re: John McGann's website

    Thank you, Jim, for the archive.org link! I didn't know about such an archive. It certainly fills the bill!
    Rod
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    John McGann's website

    I'm greatly disappointed to find John's website, with it's wealth of information on technique and pure joy of music, discontinued with the closing words: "This site has been retired. Thank you for...
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    Re: Girouard #21

    What's the tune that being played?? I like it.
    R. Freeland
  12. Re: Free Matt Flinner CDs - 100th Music du Jour performance

    Count me in, tho I'm terrible at lotteries and such things. RF
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    Re: Gypsy Gyppo String Band

    Thanks, Elwoodan, for that link! I just downloaded the following 25 items from the Bandcamp site for Gypsy Gyppo String Band (Bay #209):

    Ain't Gonna Work
    Ain't No Use
    Big...
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    Re: Mark O' Connor

    I find that the free version of RealPlayer does the download easily (and works with most material on YouTube, too).
    R. Freeland
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    Re: What's your new fiddle tune?

    Mike Snyder,
    Here's as close as you'll get to the definitive 'Sadie at the Back Door':
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ht2GEdzzA
    It's Greg (fiddle) & Jere (guitar) playing Jere's tune, which he...
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    Re: Slowing down You Tube video?

    I recommend using RealPlayer (free) to download and convert the video (to .m4v) and Transcribe! ($50) to play it, slow it down and learn it. Transcribe! is a fabulous program, much better than...
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    Re: How Many Of Us Really Love Fiddle Music

    I like most of all the two together:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLw5IuukUnE&NR=1

    RF
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    Re: Oakland/Berkeley jams?

    You should join the Yahoo group, OLDTIMESF. Members of that group regularly post announcements of jams and sessions in and around the Bay Area, mostly oldtime (not so much bluegrass). A session...
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    Re: learning to read

    Bill, the music notation lessons (by Joe Carr) that Dave Weiss refers to are described here: http://www.mandolinsessions.com/?p=531
  20. Re: channel on youtube with lots of unique mandolin use!

    WOW!!!! Monster mando and fabulous fiddle -- I listened two times thru and enjoyed tremedously!
  21. Re: Share your favorite Internet Radio stations here

    For a nice old time feel (not always mandolinistic), try Sugar in the Gourd.
    Rod Freeland, Berkeley, CA
  22. Re: 15 videos of Edu Miranda Trio Live in Portugal

    Still no DVD?? :confused:
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    Re: Fun with Audacity

    #1 comes across better! Sounds like CFM to me. RF
  24. Re: Fado Lisboeta - Edu Miranda Trio on YouTube

    Any idea if their DVD has ever come out, or will be commercially available in the US? I've looked at their websites and can't figure out anything about it.
    R. Freeland
  25. "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms"

    I sometimes take a few detours and don't get back soon enough to the main list of 'New Posts' and get this message: "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." Seems like the forum...
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