Thanks Don, great minds (?) think alike. Last week I bought the Soundslice rhythm course and I am working through it in parallel to the Appetizers. The Appetizers have cool lead lines but just chord...
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Thanks Don, great minds (?) think alike. Last week I bought the Soundslice rhythm course and I am working through it in parallel to the Appetizers. The Appetizers have cool lead lines but just chord...
Thanks so much Don!! And especially thanks for putting this together. Although I listen to jazz all morning every morning on WBGO Newark I am not enough of an expert to figure out your clever clues. ...
I recently purchased the excellent Jazz Mandolin Appetizers
https://www.melbay.com/Products/22021BCDEB/jazz-mandolin-appetizers.aspx
and am really enjoying working on it. Don Stiernberg has...
How about one of the classic F&S album covers with Monroe replacing Curly Seckler?
Thanks! He sure had absorbed Monroe's style! A great album all around.
Re-enjoying Joe Greene's Fiddle Album County 722 on Spotify. Mando is only on three tracks, well-known Monroe pieces Paddy on the Turnpike and Grey Eagle and Salt River ("Creek" to some). The breaks...
Charles Seeger (Pete's father): "Plagiarism is the basis of all culture"
I'll be there... Andy Alexander books the traditional side of things, this year we get David Davis, who for my money is one of the purest exponents of the Monroe style, Tristan Scroggins (in the Jeff...
A pro player once told me "your first finger is your capo" for transposing tunes with open strings to keys one, two... frets higher. The 2/3/4 fingers do what the 1/2/3 would do with open strings....
I don't know where you are in Germany, but if you're near the Dutch border you should visit The Fellowships of Acoustics (tfoa.eu) in Dedemsvaart (near Bad Bentheim (D)) or Harry Boetzkes...
I promoted Ralph and the "classic" Clinch Mountain Boys (Roy Lee Centers, Jack Cooke, Curly Ray Cline) + teenage Skaggs & Whitley in Ithaca NY high school in February 1972. This was during the period...
Monroe Brothers were revolutionary in their duet harmonies, fast tempos, Charlie's bass runs and Bill's sparkling mandolin solos. He played lots of long arpeggios, very unlike what he did in the...
Speaking of golf (the famous 36 under par on first attempt), you neglected to say that the first time the Dear Leader took a mandolin out of the case he played all Bach's Partitas from memory using...
No, he goes to F the first two verses (A part) and then C on the next two (B part). He implies the F in the first break mainly with the A note on the G string (3rd of the F chord = F A C). If you...
I am surprised none of the above good advice has mentioned a key point to solving FF -- namely keep fingers down, once they are down, until they need to be lifted. In this way the "back" fingers on a...
Slash chords are generally only for guitar or piano, where they show the bass note. This is usually part of a "walking bass" line. The guitar can play these fairly easily and since the bass strings...
Wow, this just goes to show how fragile life is and how much we should appreciate every day we have. James Allen Shelton took Shuffler picking into the modern age and brought his own touch and tone....
At fast tempos and with a string bass most players just chop "and". But even then some get their hand into a rhythm where something light is indeed played on the beat. Even with a short upstroke...
May 29-30-31 (Thurs-Fri-Sat) in Voorthuizen (Netherlands), about 80 km east of Amsterdam. See the official website for times, band lineup etc. Of course the best part is jamming in multiple European...
"Daniel Prayed" is indeed one good Stanley Brothers example: "he prayed to God [extra 2/4] every morning, noon and night...". The classic example is "Clinch Mountain Backstep" (although some people...
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys!! OK, not bluegrass but Mon thought enough of them to record several of their songs (I Wonder if you feel the way I do; Time Changes Everything)
The book doesn't speak, Jetho's playing does. If that doesn't speak to you, so be it. I encourage you to dig into the book and pick out gems at random... so many cool ideas. Just the solos from the...
Buying it is the easy part... learning Jethrology is a long-term project!
I think it depends on the composer (if there is one) for mandolin or fiddle tunes, if the composer was trying to get certain sounds by using open strings / drones. Pike County is a perfect example --...
I thought Bertram's choice of 0.00001157407 Hz for the Love Frequency was referring to Barry White... but even Barry can not sing that low.