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    Homemade Tuning Peg Tool

    Folks, the arthritis in my hands is significant enough that trying to tune these small tuning pegs can be difficult and painful at times. I couldn’t find a small tuning tool for the mando, so I made...
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    Re: The Pentatonic Mandolin

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNj0wPgyL7A
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    The Pentatonic Mandolin

    Mandolin Theory, Technique & Improvisation by Niles Hokkanen

    Page 7 at the bottom below the black separation line.

    The first paragraph: "The C pentatonic scale is..." This makes sense as he is...
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    Personal Mandolin Monitor

    Folks, I'm trying to play the mandolin with the praise team. However, the stage area is so loud that I can only hear about 50% of what I'm playing (right or wrong!). What I'm thinking about is a...
  5. Thread: Pick Edges

    by Uncle Brad
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    Re: Pick Edges

    This sounds great!!!
  6. Thread: Pick Edges

    by Uncle Brad
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    Pick Edges

    Folks, I tried something for smoothing up the edges of my pick. As shown in the attached photo, I bought a fingernail buffing pad from Walmart that has four progressive buffing surfaces (Equate...
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    Re: Learning to Play the Mandolin

    Many thanks to everyone who replied to my post. I can confidently say that the root of my problem has been revealed by all your comments. Yes, I’m a sheet music kind of guy. All my musical life...
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    Re: Learning to Play the Mandolin

    I forgot to mention why I started down the mandolin path in the first place. I've played guitar on the praise team at church since 2014. Mostly strumming chords with a bass run here and there. ...
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    Learning to Play the Mandolin

    I’ve been trying to learn the mandolin for two non-consecutive years now. I’ve completed home study courses from Mike Marshall, Chris Thile, Steve Kaufman, Brad Laird (Improv), Niles Hokkanen...
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    Pentatonic Shapes

    Does the mandolin have pentatonic shapes like the guitar does?
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    Re: Old Home Place Break in G?

    Jordan,

    This great and very helpful.

    Thank you!!
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    The Trout by Franz Schubert

    I'm receiving excellent mandolin instruction from Wayne Fugate via Zoom (https://www.waynefugate.com/). My most recent homework assignment was to play a song entirely on one string. Wow, this...
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    Does my mandolin sound cheap???

    I was reviewing a training video on YouTube of Joe Walsh giving instruction of a song. I noticed the sound his mandolin makes is quite different than mine. His sounds more like he's picking...
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    Name That Tune!

    I want to do some tremolo practice using the attached song. Does anyone know the name of it? I'll do some searching for the music once I get the name.

    Thanks.
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    Mando Cafe Home Page Picture

    On this Mandolin Cafe's home page is a picture of a mandolin - amber in color. It's on the right as advertised by Mass Street Music. This mandolin has really caught my eye. I went to their home...
  16. Re: Playing Mandolin with the Church Praise Team

    First I want to say thanks to all who responded. This is all great guidance – all of it!

    I requested to participate with the praise team this morning and our worship leader responded yes with a...
  17. Playing Mandolin with the Church Praise Team

    I’ve played the acoustic guitar on the praise team for the past six years but decided to switch to the mandolin. The praise team (without me) consists of one acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano and...
  18. Re: D'Addario's new Chris Thile signature mandolin pick

    I just received my new Chris Thile casein 1.4 mm pick. I really like the smooth play and sound that it produces. One question. The pick is not flat, but concave. Not a lot, but enough to "rock &...
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    Re: Gibson Mandolin Strings

    This may or may not help to answer the question. However, the packaging looks identical. I got these guitar strings new in 1967.
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    Just Installed a New Truss Rod Cover

    I just installed a new truss rod cover from Montana Lutherie. Bruce did an outstanding job making it. I chose the cross on ebony as shown on his web site. I am very pleased with it's appearance on...
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    Re: Pick “spinning” while strumming

    I have used Monster Grips with great success.

    www.monstergrips.com
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