Deep River Blues

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Re: Lou Martin Newsletter

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Re: Mandolas Anyone??

I almost never attempt Bluegrass on the mandola. I find its strengths are not the same as the mandolin. I use it much more for Jazz. I like the lower register, good comping voicings, etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To

Re: Xmas Presents...What Did You Git?

I got about 20 Aebersold Jazz play along sets. Oh BOY!!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Texas Fiddling

Give it a look, if nothing else to watch some legendary guitarists demonstrate swing backup.  Most of the videos feature Royce and Ray Franklin, Anthony Mature, Rex Gillentine, and or Bobby Christman. Add Joey McKenzie to the list and that is a whos who of Texas guitar. -- You received

Re: Ouch

I've heard that playing without your index finger is good thing to do to strengthen your pinky, but unfortunately, I'd never spent much time doing it. I play simpler tunes a lot this way, very good for the pinky. Plus it makes transposing melodies easy, just move to any key I want, and

Re: Practicing ect...

BTW John McGann has a nice instructional DVD on using metronomes in different ways... I highly recommend Johns DVD. Very well done. I break playing an instrument into 1) playing and 2) practicing. If you want fun, do #1. If you want to get better, do much more of #2. I like to record and

Re: Family Bands

I've known a number of family bands, some members quite well. The professional ones I've found to be quite odd in some respect. I've known two where I felt the parents were making a living off the kids. I knew one or both parents well, but not the kids. I currently teach 4 kids who are in two

Re: New Duff 'Dola

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Utube videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/xt981 Here are 3 videos of me. 2 are from the Nashville Network Bluegrass show Fire on the Mountain with the band Skyline Drifters. The one that may interest folks here is an unrecorded at that time Monroe tune, The One I Love is Gone anda banjo tune, Banjo Nova.

Re: fiddle tunes on the mando

All of your ideas can work very well. It really depends on the tune and the effect you want. I play both instruments. Often, I'll play very different notes on mandolin in certain sections of fiddle tunes than I play on the fiddle. Certain things just don't transfer well. I start with the

Re: Obscure Monroe Tunes

96. White Horse Breakdown (?) I thought Baker wrote this, but I just read the liner notes to Bakers Dozen. Says Monroe wrote it. The longest running NW BG festival is Darrington Washington. You look out from the stage to White Horse Mountain. The rumor was Baker wrote the tune on the spot,

Re: Cattle in the Cane

If you don't find this, you can download a Texas style fiddle version of Cattle in the Cane from my web site, no charge. It is in the book Texas Style Fiddle Transcriptions, Volume 1 in music notation. While it is not Sam's version from that recording, it is very close. I've heard Sam play CiC

Re: Cattle in the Cane

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Re: Greg Clarke

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Re: Where's everybody gone?

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Re: Another Cracker Barrel CD

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Re: pick grip

I definitely change my grip, depending on what sound I'm shooting for and what accuracy I need. I hold much closer to the tip for cross picking, hold way back from the tip for downstrokes, retract my index finger a lot for chords, etc. I bet if you look close at most good players, they do the

Re: Beaumont Rag

Texas Style Fiddle Transcriptions, Volume 1 has a fiddle transcription of past great Terry Morris playing this. You can dwonload it no charge at my web site. www.petimarpress.com It will have a number of things that don't translate to the mandolin that well, nut will give you a feel for a

Re: Tremolo Training A Big Fat Cream Bun

For me, playing a pattern or a rhythmic beat in the tremolo helps me get through it evenly, sort of like giving myself a script to follow. taterbug I very much noticed this when I transcribed and learned both your solos on Gospel Plow on the Little Grascals CD. There you play 4 notes per

Re: F4 Mandolin

I play an F4 and an A2 much more than I play an f hole mandolin. I've become more attached to the richness and complexity of the sound of the oval hole instrument. Definitely a different animal. I'd suggest you try a number of them, as they are all different. They need to be played a LOT if

Re: Fiddle and Mandolin

Does anyone have an experience working on them concurrently, or advice?  Is it better to learn together or get as far as I want on mandolin then switch over? I stopped playing mandolin completely to try to get halfway decent on the fiddle. It is a long struggle, but a very fun instrument.

Re: Why is it?

I notice that my instruments are sharp the next day, whether they have been in the case or not. This is VERY unscientific, but I think it can be caused from two things: 1) Body heat. In the case of the guitar and mandolin, the body of the instrument is in contact with our body. Typical

Re: Dawg clip guest staring Compton/Long

This discussion has inspired me to bid on a KM184. I have a pair of Rode NT5s that I like a lot, but the engineer at the studio I use sometimes uses either KM84s or 184s. Might as well go whole hog -- or dawg, as the case may be. Having owned both the KM184 and KM84 myself, there is a BIG

Re: Happy Birthday Mr. Tate R. Bug

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Re: New Mando

If any of you are looking for an oval hole that has the old Gibson sound, I'd suggest you seriously look at the Old Waves. They have the sound of the best old Gibsons, in a new, very affordable instrument. I own a mandola and octave mando from Bill and have a few students that have the A oval

Re: Micing a mandolin for recording

There are as many different ways to record an instrument well as there are good players. The key is knowing what sound you want and keep experimenting with what you have until you get the best results. You may want to frequent pro audio groups like Gearslutz and 3bd forums and ask questions.

Re: Make the case for your favorite case.

My favorite case for max protection of the instrument is the Pegasus. Though expensive, they are the best design I have seen. A Calton broke the peghead scroll off my F5 Gilchrist, so if you get one, beware of the peghead fit. The Calton works fine for my A2, no peghead issues there. For

Re: Questions for the head Tater (and anyone else who cares to offer up an answer)

Mike wrote: “What I have borrowed from the tenor are the inverted chord shapes and the use of the G string as a reference point to base my chord voicing off of.” This is the way I have done it on guitar, tenor and mando. For the Texas and Western Swing stuff (think Eldon Shamblin) this works

Re: It Was Bound to Happen Sooner or Later...

Join the earless Gil crowd Mike. Mine broke when dropped, locked inside a Calton case, about 3 inches off the floor (Calton owners BEWARE). I have become kind of fond of the broken look, so I leave it unrepaired, it's a great conversation starter at festivals. However, I replaced the Calton

Re: First Recorded Mandolinist

Maybe Dave Apollon? I know that Monroe picked up the mandolin because it was the last instrument left and he was the youngest, but was he the first commercially recorded mandolin player of any note?  If not, I'd like to find out who it was and give him a listen.

Re: College of Chord Knowledge

Now, can anybody tell me what chapter in the theory book says it's legal to play a six major chord in Foggy Mountain Breakdown or in the B part of Billy in the Lowground? I think that was in appendix 3309345876z. Not many people get that far in the book...