I have a quote from Co-Mando or Mandozine don't think it switched over yet, when I read this. If you wanna learn "Dawg" music you first should learn Monroe and if you want to learn Monroe study the old timey stuff.
Get to the beginning and learn the base. With the current technology at our fingertips, the work of finding versions of songs not an issue. The work is finding the version that saves the integrity of the original if not the original itself is. I guess having the drive to decipher the original is needed or at least the drive to dig deep and care which is which. To me there are two separate issues. Having an understanding of how to create a musical dialogue... mission accomplished for these note(y) youngsters and having an understanding of how to use it tastefully. At the mandolin Symposium '08, Tony Williamson had a class called "Taste or Trash". I'm not calling the stuff the young or notey folks music is Trash but the question must be raised is it tasteful? I also own a Bowed instrument instructional video with Darol Angor, Rashad Eggleston(sp), Casey Dreisden. Casey has a technique equivalent to a Chop but it is done with a Triplet. He said when he discovered he could do this, he had the urge to put it in everything but realized it shouldn't. Here is an example of "Do as I say not as I do" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4aIFccTElA Later, Chef
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