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    Re: Taking my first mandolin lesson on Monday

    How exciting! Have fun.
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    Re: Discovering the fun of GDGD tuning

    Thanks for bringing this old thread back up. I love playing cross-A (and sometimes cross-G) tunes on my fiddle, but hadn’t even considered that on mandolin because of the high string tension. But...
  3. Re: Pinky workouts for a pinky that wants to always turn?

    Try out Mike Marshall’s Great Book of Finger Busters: https://www.elderly.com/collections/all/products/mike-marshall-s-mandolin-method-the-great-book-of-finger-busters

    Getting your pinky working...
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    Re: New Book on Mandolin Chordology

    It’s a great book, as are all Gordon Stobbe’s books. His Red Book of Fiddle Scales has really helped me on fiddle and mandolin.
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    Re: Is shifting up one fret ok?

    Yeah, love this tune! I think we’re talking about the same phrase, but we play it a little different. I play E F# G A B G A G E C#. So, if I didn’t the index shift up to that G, it would be there...
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    Re: Is shifting up one fret ok?

    Thanks, Bill. Sorry for my confusing terminology. All of these notes are on the first string. The numbers are fret positions. So, fret 2 on the first (E) string is F#, etc.

    I was prepared for the...
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    Is shifting up one fret ok?

    I don’t generally have trouble with my pinky, but a phrase in one of my favorite tunes—Half Past Four—gives me trouble because, if I play it in normal position, my middle, ring, and pinky are all...
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    Re: Tunes in "F"

    https://youtu.be/VweMZusa1S4
  9. Re: Which version of Chinquapin / Chinkapin Hunting is the "real"

    Jimmy Triplett and Bosco (whom I didn’t know played banjo, but should’ve figured!). https://youtu.be/m4C_GEI8ykw
  10. Re: Which version of Chinquapin / Chinkapin Hunting is the "real"

    And then their’s Chinquapin, an altogether different tune. Here’s Rhys Jones. Jimmy Triplett also plays it. https://youtu.be/YACoaVLxFQg
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    Re: How Many Like Blonde Mandos??

    I love my honey amber Collings MT! Gloss spruce top/matte tiger maple back.
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    Re: McClung Armrest

    Wishing you all the best for a speedy and complete recovery, Doug!
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    Re: Hornpipe rhythm

    In Appalachian old-time music, many (maybe most) standards that have “hornpipe” in their title usually aren’t played with much of a hornpipe rhythm. I’m thinking of some of the most often played...
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    Re: McClung Armrest

    Love my two McClungs!
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    Re: Shifting into third position for C tunes

    Thank you both for the tips, Mark and Jim!
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    Shifting into third position for C tunes

    Do others shift into 3rd position to help make playing C tunes (and I guess F tunes?) easier? A friend once gave me that tip, but I have trouble working out where to shift up and shift back, and...
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    Re: Dennis Vance receives double transplant

    I would send my best wishes to anybody, but it’s especially nice to send happy wishes to someone (even though I haven’t had the pleasure to meet him myself) who sounds like such a wonderful person. ...
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    Re: Dear Old Illinois

    Excellent! I never bought it the first time around, but I will now. Hopefully I can get it signed by Chirps next time I see him at CROMA.
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    Re: Home with the girls in the morning

    Great tune. I learned it from Dave Firestine and some other friends in Tucson. Some of us call it the Gilligan’s Island song. Somewhere in those lyrics has to fit: “A three hour tour, a three hour...
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    The entry form page says it is not receiving entries.
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    Re: "Playing the circle of fifths"

    That was my initial question when I watched that beautiful and fascinating video. I guess it’s not surprising that you can depict a regular and circular pattern (the sequence of notes in the major...
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    Re: "Playing the circle of fifths"

    Mike Marshall covers this nicely in one of his Homespun DVDs. Salty Dog Blues is another classic example of “playing around the circle,” jumping from G (I) up to E (VI) and then backwards by fourths,...
  23. “Now in ‘Bluegrass Green,’ for even better...

    “Now in ‘Bluegrass Green,’ for even better camouflage when you drop your $40 pick on the lawn!” 🤣
  24. Re: Do you shift positions for hammer-ons/pull-offs?

    Seems like the consensus, not surprisingly, is that there are no hard and fast rules, and that the best guide is to do what works best and sounds best. For me, at this stage of my mandolin...
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    Let's see if this works:184576
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