Update for those who might be interested: I had my first lesson with a proper mandolin teacher, and it was an actual revelation, I'm so disappointed I didn't do it earlier.
He gave me a few tips...
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Update for those who might be interested: I had my first lesson with a proper mandolin teacher, and it was an actual revelation, I'm so disappointed I didn't do it earlier.
He gave me a few tips...
Wow, there are some awesome tips here! Thanks so much all for your advice, I think I'm gonna get off my ass and check that teacher's availability, and start figuring out some more concrete goals,...
I want to improve as a player, but I'm not 100% sure how I should be tackling this. As a bit of reference, I've been a guitar player (mainly metal/hard rock) for about 20 years or so, and I've been...
Congratulations on the baby, Drew!
I was very much the same with the swing towards bluegrass & such. I grew up listening to metal and my genres breakdown was, well...181697
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I think I'm pushing the thumb against the neck like a guitarist, been a guitarist for many years before picking up the mandolin so that makes a whole lot of sense. I wish I could find a good teacher...
I hadn't thought about doing this, the scale exercises I got from jazzmando.com all start pretty low down the neck, but I figure that's because they're 'finger busters'. I'll give this a try in my...
Oh, I've got that DVD, but I've not really been using it much. I'm a guitarist of many years and I learned by tabs for the most part, never had any instructional DVDs. Any chapters in the Thile DVD...
Hi all,
So I'm finally trying to lock down a proper practice routine to improve, as opposed to just jamming the songs I know. I'm developing a routine to spend at least 10 mins every morning...
179338 That's the one there.
Well, I'll confess I originally thought the K&K was a transducer, but that being said, it's got to have a better sound quality than the stock bridge piezo. I mean, if a piezo is a piezo is a piezo,...
If I was gonna do it, I'd take it to a luthier and get them to do the work, I wouldn't trust myself with that sort of thing!
What kind of preamp were you using with it? The project I'm playing in...
Hi all!
I've got a slightly strange question for you, I know a lot of you use the K&K Internal Twin and rave about it! I've got a Fender Robert Schmidt mandolin which I really like, and I'm...
I measured it and centre to centre was 30/32nds of an inch, which is .937. Does that sound right?
Cool, I'll measure that tonight and get back to you. Thanks!
Hey all,
I hope this is the right place for this question. I've got a Fender Robert Schmidt mandolin which I really love, but I feel like the machine heads could do with upgrading as they're a bit...
Thanks for these ideas everyone, gonna give them a shot!
Hi all,
So I'm trying to learn to read music, and I'm struggling with it a fair bit. As some background, I've played hard rock and metal guitar for about 20 years, and I picked up the mandolin...
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So in a couple of weeks, I'm moving from the UK to Australia. I'm shipping my mandolin and other instruments (guitars both electric & acoustic, tenor banjo) via cargo container, and I was...
Thanks a lot! Hopefully, I can make it down! :)
Greetings everyone!
So I'm a relative newcomer to mandolin, been playing a couple of years, and I'm wanting to know more about my instrument. I've been getting a few lessons, and I'm playing in an...
Yeah let us know whereabouts in the UK you are. I'm based in London and always trying to find new shops. I bought my mando from Wunjo's in Denmark St, and there's a pretty good selection in Hobgoblin...
Hey everyone!
So to celebrate turning the big 3-0 this year my girlfriend and I are going to take a trip to New York in July time. Just wondering if any of you can recommend any good stores to...
I'm the other way round. Reasonably large hands but stubby little digits. I've managed to improve a bit by altering my approach, but what I wouldn't give to have longer, more slender fingers!
I'd love to see them do one for Daybreak! I really want to learn a few of those tunes but my ear is absolutely awful at picking things up, even when I use software to slow the tracks down!