Dennis,
I play a National Resonator mandolin, one of their new ones. I call it the "jaminator." I take it with me when I work the camps and find myself in jams with guitar, piano and harmonica. I never have trouble being heard. Think about it. Rich From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Fehling Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:17 PM To: taterbug e-mail Subject: RE: Loud Jamming I have a brother in law that has a friend that was a self proclaimed rock star in the 80's this guy does not know the meaning of the word quiet. He plays the guitar so loud that my little mandolin cannot compete no matter how loud I play so I just get up get another beer and wait until he stops or leaves. As far as the the Banjo players if there is more than one then I would probably just kill myself and get it over with. Dennis www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com <http://www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com/> When will the madness stop. Spay and Neuter your pets <http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood> i'mEMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me _____ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Loud Jamming Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:11:58 -0400 John J. You need to get a new group! We need to make music not noise-break up into smaller groups and play at levels that you all can hear each other. Remember, our objective is to play music not play louder or drown out the nuclear banjos or fiddles. This can be accomplished by asking your group mates not to play so loudly. You must not be doing any singing, because you would be seriously hoarse by now. What I really mean by this rant is that you and your picking buddies need to learn dynamics. Music doesn't have to be loud to be good. Learning to play backup and supporting the soloist or singer can be just as satisfying as playing a "hot" break. You need to listen to each other and play off of each other. Players who understand the subtleties of music are always more fun to jam with! Save your wrist and broken strings- you don't need a Spinal Tap amp that goes up to 11. I remember Bill Monroe in 1969 at the Philadelphia Folk Festival warming up to play before they went on-they were really cooking ,but they were playing at a very low volume so as not to disturb the people who were performing on stage. Great self control. Try it you may like it! To more focused and better jamming. RSB > Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:22:27 -0700 > Subject: Loud Jamming > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Hey ya'll, > I've been lurking around for quite a while and enjoying some of the > discussions but today I would like to get some feed back from this > great collection of fellow taterbugs. > Last night night I got in a really fun jam with some good > pickers . Unfortunately there was 3 banjos , 2 guitars and a couple of > mandolins.Needless to say it was pretty darn loud.Sooo when it got > time to take a break one had to bang away to be heard. Unfortunately > for me , I have a hard time pickin that loud. Consequently it was > usually pretty ugly. How can we practice for that situation? I tried > to hint to the group to tone it down some but that lasted one guitar > break. > I just got a little frustrated with my crummy pickin so I'm going > to Tate & get him to teach me some in your face Monroe. > Thanks for letting me > vent. John J > </html </html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
