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I have one on all my mandolins. I don’t even notice it’s there. I also like that it serves as a counterbalance to the headstock. Try one and if you don’t care for it, it could be easily sold here in...

Looks nice, I'll have to check into it. Thanks for the input. How does it differ from the F5S[/QUOTE]

It is very different. Best I can describe is the Beavertail sound kind of blooms out and rings...

The OP sounds like me a few months ago. I too own a Northfield F5S and was looking to diversify my sonic palette. I play a bit of classical and am really into choro at the moment and wanted something...

Hey. I recently acquired a Sawchyn Beavertail. I have light strings (.38-.10) on now with pretty low action. I would like to move up to a medium set (.40-.11). Any thoughts about that?

I’m really digging Road Trip. By John Reischman and John Miller right now. Lots of tasty mandolin playing on that album.

In addition to the benefits already stated above, I find that an armrest helps offset the weight of the headstock. Especially on an F5 shape with a tonegard on.

I just got a Sachwyn Beaver Tail flat top. Great little mando.

I bought 3 of the X-stiff rounded ones. Love the tone, the colors, and the name.

Welcome to the club! I purchased my F5S 5 years ago. It sounded great on day one and just kept getting better each day thereafter. Enjoy.

Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.

D’Addario nickel bronze 11.5-40. Love the tone of the unwound strings on my Northfield.

I’m a subscriber as well. I’m pretty sure it is one of the only online course for classical mandolin out there. As Kurth stated, you should be able to read standard notation and have more than an...

I was playing my octave on stage and a fellow came up and said “what is that an oud?” Seemed odd that he knew of an oud but not a big mandolin. Another time I was in the park playing some of the...

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I lost my good friend last year. She was my audience on most nights.

I usually don’t worry too much about slash chords. Especially if there is a guitar or bass player. To me it would depend on the context and whether or not that bass note is important to the harmonic...

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Made this recording a few years ago. I learned it by ear from the original tv theme. It’s not terribly difficult to play.

That’s the first half of the D minor gigue from solo violin partita 2.

https://youtu.be/FdBwOOwcwTU


Danilo Brito did one. Awesome playing.

That’s Vivaldi’s Concerto in C for Mandolin.

Smoking Dawg’s Bull for the encore.

I think your right Steve. Aeolian, or natural minor is 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7. Like A to A in the key of C, D to D in the key of F, etc..

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These are scale exercises. Yes they have patterns and intervals. The purpose is to make you better ;)

Home is the basic major scale played in sequence. Ex. C D E F G A B C

Thirds is playing...

I was in a class with Caterina Lichtenberg and asked her this very question. She uses DDUD. It helps to play the first 4 notes of bar 17 DUDU, then start the pattern on the 2nd beat. I really like...

Looks like Sarah is playing a Northfield arch top octave.