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  1. Re: Best mandolin video courses - Homespun or Peghead?

    In my experience, it's Artistworks > Peghead Nation > Homespun.

    Mike Marshall's Artistworks course is more comprehensive than Sierra Hull's (he's been doing it a lot longer) and has more...
  2. Re: Resources for learning gypsy jazz / dawg style music

    I don't think there's a great single resource, but there are a lot of bits and pieces depending on what exactly you're looking for:

    David Grisman teaches a bunch of his older tunes on the old...
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    Re: Andy Wood Trufire course

    I have it, but haven't really worked through it. I feel like it's primarily (but not solely) aimed at guitarists crossing over to mandolin. The rhythm lessons (for mandolin and guitar) are nice,...
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    Re: Fiddlers picking with bow direction?

    I wasn't disagreeing. Some people are way too dogmatic. Try playing all downstrokes, all upstrokes, reverse your normal pick direction (UDUD instead of DUDU), use rest strokes, sweep picking,...
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    Re: Fiddlers picking with bow direction?

    I don't even know how literally following the same bowing directions would work, unless you only ever play saw stroke or 2 note slurs on the fiddle. But there are at least some occasions where bowing...
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    Re: Mandolin player crossing over to guitar

    I rarely use TablEdit these days, but I opened it in TablEdit and the free TEFview (both on Windows) and the MIDI played fine. Technical issue, I guess. You're right about the key signature. It's...
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    Re: Mandolin player crossing over to guitar

    I went down the same path. Played guitar a bit as a teenager (not bluegrass) and started flatpicking after I had been playing mandolin for a while. Mike Stangeland, who contributed a lot of tabs to...
  8. Re: Can Anyone Shed Light on this Fiddle Embellishment?

    I might be wrong, but I think it's just a bowed triplet. It has other names, and it's more like two sixteenth notes followed by an eighth instead of an actual triplet. It's used in Irish and Scottish...
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    Re: Pic direction when starting on a string

    It's a common technique in classical mandolin playing, especially with rest strokes. It's actually the default technique in a lot of the older mandolin methods. Historically, it was probably the...
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    Re: Which ArtistWorks Mandolin Course?

    I would probably choose Mike over Caterina to start. Mike's course will make you a more well-rounded mandolin player, and you shouldn't develop any bad habits. You'll still learn solid technique with...
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    Re: Which ArtistWorks Mandolin Course?

    I've used both. Mike and Caterina are both great teachers and there's plenty of content in both courses for players of any level. The decision is primarily about the direction you want to go. If you...
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    Re: Suggestions on learning chords?

    This is all really good advice. Zak Borden has a series of Youtube videos showing how to transform chords and move them around. Mike Marshall shows the same thing in his Artistworks lessons and his...
  13. Re: Effective picking exercises for speed and accuracy?

    Some more advice and expanding on other's comments. Since mandolin is predominately a folk instrument, technique is less dogmatic than in classical music. You'll get a broader range of opinions than...
  14. Thread: Bluegrass Box

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    Re: Bluegrass Box

    This. It's a movable pentatonic scale. He shows it in B, but I think it's easier to move everything up one fret (to C) to explain it. It looks something like this:

    ||-|-|G|-|A|-|-|C|...
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    Re: John Goodin Website

    John Goodin is a long tenured member of the forum, usually posting in the classical section. (Like many others here and in the mandolin community) he's been very generous with his compositions.
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    Re: Take's BG Album Channel - Help Locate the Gems

    He's posted a ton of great stuff. I'd suggest searching his videos for a musician you like and see what comes up. He also has a live bluegrass channel

    Certainly not an exhaustive list, but I'm a...
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    Re: Bickford Mandolin Method

    If you go to the publisher's website, they offer unlimited online access and pdf downloads of all of their books for $8.99 / month. They also have free previews of their books. Unfortunately, the...
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    Re: Composition in Roots Music

    I don't think the OP meant newgrass; more the melding of bluegrass & chamber music. Bill Monroe meets Ludwig van Beethoven. Something like Chris Thile's The Blind Leaving the Blind, which still...
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    Re: String Crossing Issue

    This is a pretty common problem with a simple answer: practice. It's a strange movement and takes time to master. Try playing it with only the right hand on the open strings until it's more...
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    Re: Looking for THE book

    "THE book" doesn't exist. But the two that probably come closest are the aforementioned Mandolin for Dummies and Greg Horne's Complete Mandolin Method (Complete Edition). The Complete Mandolin Method...
  21. Re: Where have all the Bluegrass Rhythm guitar players gone

    The irony is that Tony Rice is a monster rhythm guitarist. Same is true of all the great lead players. Clarence White, Bryan Sutton, David Grier, Charles Sawtelle...
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    Re: Alternate Picking Convention

    I think it's simply a matter of practice time. Once you have the pattern ingrained, it's easy. I switch between alternate picking, jig picking, gypsy picking (mostly on guitar, but sometimes on...
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    Re: Alternate Picking Convention

    You'll most likely find nearly unanimous support here (and among most good teachers and players) for strict alternate picking, especially for a beginner. It's easier to build speed and consistency if...
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    Re: The Butterfly, strict picking

    Me too. I think that's as close to "standard" as you'll find. Some people will play the first measure pattern as all downstrokes, and a few (definitely a minority) will play the consecutive eighth...
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    Re: O'Brien, McCoury, Thile - Bluegrass Stomp

    I think the Andy Statman comparison is interesting. As out there as his playing is, its foundation is traditional bluegrass (mostly Monroe, but also McReynolds and Osborne). He took Monroe's playing...
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