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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Happy accidents happen :))
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Yes, chopping wood instead of delicate picking is bound to be a losing battle. The only solution is a louder instrument. That's why I got an RTG: peace among boxes and pipes.
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    I'm just not trying to play all the notes, and in a way, fiddlers do the same.

    Left hand speed can be the higher the less force is neccessary, and fiddlers have considerably less force to apply,...
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    Re: Tam Lin

    That G buzz gives it exactly the tube-amp compression Led Zeppelin would have aimed for :cool: and you're not alone with this..
  5. Re: Overcoming halted progress and frustration

    I have noticed two things:
    #1 - when practising stubbornly on the same faulty phrase, the brain can learn how to do it wrong and stick to it.
    #2 - when learning a new tune, the brain overwrites...
  6. Re: Overcoming halted progress and frustration

    Sugarfoot Rag was not familiar to me, and listening to a video of Sierra Hull and Sam Bush playing it convinced me that this is not an easy access indeed, a pill to be swallowed with a verrrry big...
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    I tend to move around difficult tunes by practising other, easier tunes in between. This gives me a chance to slowly ooze into the castle of challenge by using back doors I found on the easy detours...
  8. Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    Instructions on how to do things is a more important purpose of YT than many of us musicians think - it's not just for fun. I have found many useful hints myself that way (e.g. recently on how to...
  9. Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    that's what I was trying to say, in an even smaller nutshell :cool:

    Looks like Simon's stats only ever registered MY views on his channel, that would fit the data.
  10. Re: Going from mandolin to tenor guitar - technique differences?

    I do mostly mandolin fingering on OM, ETG and RTG, examples can be seen here and there, but it takes well-aimed jumps.
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    Re: Arthritis

    I have rheumatoid arthritis and going fine on MTX, but the pain is caused by an inflammation which must be adressed separately, in my case by injection of corticoid meds directly into the affected...
  12. Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    I have looked for that kind of age/gender statistics on my channel but it says "not enough demographic data". That's OK for me, I don't like statistics based on insignificantly low counts...
  13. Re: Most tunes I post to YouTube are 65+ years old

    I have also mostly older tunes (my oldest is "Archibald Macdonald of Keppoch", 18th cty), but not all of them.
    "Luke Skywalker Walks on Sunshine" must be younger than 64...:confused:
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Yes. Longscale, that is, aka "plectrum guitar", but tuned GDAE.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Just in case you're hungry...

    https://youtu.be/OmSFNptUi24?si=G1trnJAaUT0lVbJX
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    Re: The Sleeping Tune (Gordon Duncan)

    An older one of mine

    https://youtu.be/P1D1KfJSwEo?si=cjbYkoXFXqQzxvMe
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    Re: Wide Nut Fever?

    Age-old thing for me. Mandolins are too small for me in general by now, my Fylde OM has a rather wide nut for an OM, my Royall RTG has 4 strings spread out over a standard guitar fretboard size....
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    Re: Octave mandolin tuning

    I'll say PB42-PB30-PB20-PL13
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    I was thinking the same. There seems to be a shrinking supply of that.
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    Re: What did you ask Santa to bring you?

    On Earth Peace.
    Now that may be more than Santa can provide from his factory on that ever-dwindling polar ice shield...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    in our sessions, we extend the last chorus with
    ...and whiskey on a Monday,
    and whiskey on a Tuesday,
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    and whiskey on a Sunday.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    A somewhat labyrinthine reel set with a faint hint at Christmas.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8coLcSxx8
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Those wooden dancers very much remind me of the song "Whiskey on a Sunday" - I have never seen anything like them before.
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    Re: Obessed with the tenor banjo

    There's no escape from the darkside. There is, however, a rehab programme with an RTG.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    I admit to having started that with my question, and without having porridge myself even (it's egg, bacon or black pudding, fried potatoes and tomatoes for me). :grin:
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