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A nice man and a wonderful musician. RIP

When it’s going well, I’m not really thinking of anything. I’m listening and reacting.

Yeah, this is the answer imo. It greatly influenced the way I play the tune. The variations Sam Bush throws in are easily understandable and can be incorporated into other tunes, too. Also really...

Y’all should get out more.

Brilliancy as linked above is pretty great. I always come back to this tune, Hartford’s Reel, off of the Grisman/Bush collaboration “Hold on, We’re Strumming”.

I remember reading at the time...

It's never too early to start looking for variations on your chop pattern. Good mandolin rhythm should fill out the song, not just cover the two and the four. That covers bluegrass and other...

I can hear these types of things when I’m tuning and playing guitar but I don’t think I’ve found the sweet spot nearly as much with mandolin. I also was trained to dampen the paired string when...

Hot Dawg is just about perfect and, to me, is not an honorable mention. My only quibble with a very nice article; thanks for sharing.

Agreed; really good advice here. I used to have a great deal of trouble with pick rotation. I eventually set the goal of re-working my right hand technique entirely, for more reasons than just that....

Still thinking about this thread too in conjunction with another (several) thread about modes. Salt Creek, in being a “mixolydian” flat-7 based tune, is using a WWHWWHW scale. If you do the math and...

It never hurts to learn some of the common tunes in a few different keys. And if you learn an A tune in G or vice versa, you now have at least some of the tool kit for transposing between C and D....

Dawg's Breath is a good tune.

To me it sounds more like a Nickel Creek song than a Punch Brothers one.

Thanks for all the replies!

I would love to get some opinions/strategies on this. I am generally much more comfortable playing in the 'language' of major sounding phrases peppered with some flatted thirds and sevenths for a...

Todd Collins isn't all that far from there. His info is floating around the web.

Check out the etree bittorrent archive. It consists entirely of live shows. Looking around (their search function isn't great, be warned) I found this show,...

Pumpkin. It's rather orange.

I have been looking for the Statman book for quite some time. If anyone has a line on it, a nod in the right direction would be welcome.

Dearly miss my Martin SP 11s.

These are all excellent posts. I took a really roundabout path to decent (in that I am personally pleased with it, no idea what anyone else thinks) tremolo playing that has happened in a few distinct...

Just curious. It seems like it would be a great tune for string splitting and I would love to hear what he might do with it.

Cheers and thanks for any replies.

Stumped by that description; sorry.

Exceedingly excited about this one.

That was quite the session, indeed. I only saw the last half hour, but am I glad I did.