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Welcome Zach! :)
-and thanks.

Working on O’Leary’s Motorcycle at the moment. https://thesession.org/tunes/4603 thanks Gortnamona for this one.
Wonderfully rhythmic, rolling, clattering tune with some great parts where you can...

I almost always play my 20 inch Ashbury 32E OM with mandolin style fingering. Up until recently that included using the little finger on the seventh fret. Now I’ve begun to occasionally make fast...

-that’s right, and then think of the maybe hundreds of people who will now consider this (very good) option and put their mandolins on the market. Sweet!

Though if the mandolins are all bought by...

Welcome to MC, Bron. Lots of friendly folk here!
Here are some strum patterns (from ukulele) -though like many of us you’ll soon be wanting to play melodies....

You could maybe give it more picking fore arm pressure with constant slight adjustments?
Some people are able to play without any fret hand thumb pressure at all. ;)

Strap adjustment’s important...

Lots of apps for lots of extremely basic metronomes.

This one’s set for playing a jig with what I think of as an Irish feel to it.
Speed it up if you like.
Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/mtg3w7pmz_s

‘ This instrument has not been tested for playability or sound quality.
Scuffs,discoloration,cracks and dust on instrument and loose threads and scuffing overall on case.’

-ouch. Yup, all of the...

Another one is tremolo on two string double stops all the way up the neck in, say, a couple of the common keys, D, C and G.

The technique is a bit like surfing or roller blading/ice skating...

I got it on the first day after working for about five hours with this vid.
Then I lost it for it for two days and on the fourth day around lunchtime, that was it.
No problem.
Good luck!

Nice, thanks, looking forward to seeing how it progresses.
I was wondering, as the thickness of these pieces increases and with all others things being equal, how does the tone change?

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But what I would say is that I love actually playing the occasional Bluegrass tune. It’s fun as a technical exercise, using a metronome to really get that speed up there and trying to work out...

These are the (higher quality) sound files that are usually available with the book which I’ve seen on Amazon from 7 dollars with a lot of very good comments.
Apparently Jack himself was happy to...

https://youtu.be/T0Duhh4nHdE

3 weeks ago?!
Are you guys saying there’s only been one Sierra Hull vid in the last 3 weeks?

What is wrong in this world! :))

If you walk into a music store here in Lyon, France it’s best to act passively angry, distracted and very polite.
Just keep, ‘they’ve done something wrong’ in mind.

Oh, and when you pick up the...

Adapted tripod on old (from the trash) microphone stand.
Attached with bicycle inner tube.
191025
191026

I use a small phone tripod attached to the back of the music stand with stretched old bicycle inner tubes.
Doesn’t look so pretty but works great.
10 seconds to detach it and use it as a tripod...

An easy route you could take could be to learn a whole load of tunes from Jack Campin’s 9 note tunebook.
http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/Chalumeau.abc (Happy Christmas :) ) All these tunes should...

A dime is .053” thick, a quarter is .069” ;)

I get the .abc of a tune from thesession.org (I usually first hear it on SAW social group) then it goes to mandolintab.net then it gets printed out, then into the ‘to do’ list folder. There are three...

And the rhythm setting for the jigs isn’t bad at all.

Here’s my humble recording of The Starling that I did a couple of days ago.
Didn’t get the same rhythm though...


https://youtu.be/_ms-tdN-Ss8

Been wanting to record this for quite some time, so it’s just been my latest fiddle tune.

Here’s the TAB, hope I got it about right.
Enjoy, and Happy Christmas!

X:1
T:Hedwig's Theme (G BASS)...

Yes, as John was saying, I use a Boya microphone attached to a five meter cable, and the sound quality is pretty good while using my iPhone X. A couple of issues though. The first one is that if you...