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A friend I used to play with quite a bit sang his song Temporary. She was absolutely amazing singing it and the handful of times we did it publicly, it left people stunned.

PRS Guitars are known for the bird logo on their fingerboards as fret markers.

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(Verse) If you see a big eel,
and his teeth are like steel,
That’s a Moray. (A Moray!)

If he’s big and he’s mean
and he’s slimy and green,
That’s a Moray. (A Moray)

(Chorus) If he slices...

Jethro said in at least one show that his wife offered to pack his bags and cut him loose if she had to hear him teach one more student Sweet Georgia Brown.

Floating fingers means letting your fingers glide along the pick guard or finger rest to establish a depth reference. That is the normal technique for guitar and is used by a significant number of...

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Historical Note
It has been said that Thomas Jefferson played one and was quite good at it.

I went through that on guitar. I was having unexplained crash and burns in jams on songs I knew well and had played hundreds of times. At Kaufmann Kamp I had Russ Barenberg look at my picking to...

Here is Bryan Sutton's tribute from a couple of days ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDwCBp52YA

Pick through the strings instead of lifting your hand or raising the pick out of the strings. Keep your pick motion in the plane of the strings as much as possible. It has to be worked on at very...

Another reason for leaving them long if you are hot pipe bending is to have something to hold on to as you bend. Otherwise you are left with a flat near the end of the curve.

Tuning a guitar in fifths would have several issues you have to overcome. The first is finding appropriate string gauges so you do not put too much tension on the instrument.

The second is the...

I set up the 1 3/16 nuts on my mandolins around 1.06 outside to outside G to E strings.

To help with not hitting adjacent strings your fingers should be aligned more along the length of the...

That got me to messing around with Stairway on my mandolin. You know it does not sound too bad.

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I first saw him live at Merlefest in 2007 when he toured with Allison Krauss. I had heard a lot of his recordings but was not at all prepared for the impact of his live playing. There was no one...

Typical bridge posts and thumbwheels are 5-40 thread. I believe they are available on Amazon.

Has anyone figured out the tricky fingering in the sixth measure?

It is mostly just a matter of style. The mandolin was extremely popular during the early 1900s for Italian music and some similar styles so there are a lot of them out there. Their sound is more...

Here is where a little theory can help a lot. The key is the home note, the note the song or tune wants to end up with. One of the reasons for changing keys is as you said to fit someone's voice. ...

If you have not already you should listen to the music Jerry Garcia and David Grismann made together. There are lot of videos on YouTube and they produced a number of cds. It is not lessons but...

These instruments unfortunately do not have a high monetary value. Even complete and in very good condition they will fetch a few hundred dollars. A handful of extremely desirable brands in top...

Yes I have heard those kinds of blemishes on Gilchrists, Loars, Dudenbostels, Montelleones, etc. It is amazing what seems to get past those guys. You would think top tier mandolin makers would have...

There are two ways to play simultaneous notes on non adjacent strings. One is the hybrid method where you hit the lower note with the pick as you pluck the higher string with your middle or ring...

Even more important than on mandolin

LEARN TO PLAY RHYTHM AND ACCOMPANIMENT!

Before you start learning fills and lead learn to play basic open chord shapes C, A, G, E, D and F and how to use a...

There have been a lot of wonderful You Tube and Facebook concerts and videos as a result of things being shut down. One I have been following regularly is from Leland Sklar who puts out a daily...