There are certain moments you have when learning something, those moments when you realise 'holy hannah, but, of course!'. Usually it involves you twigging something so staggeringly obvious that it boggles the mind just how you missed it for so long.
I had one of those moments this evening... Downstrokes, i mean, but of course! When i first set out learning mandolin i set down to alternate picking down up down up down yadda yadda up, it was what i had reccomeded and i stuck to that for near everything. Never questioned it. Never dreamed of questioning, even when i could hear something was different on recordings i was listening to and when folks were talking about it in interviews. Not until a friend showed me the down up down down up down jig pattern, that started something clanking in the old grey matter, but it was only tonight, near a year later, that i was dabbling at the mandolin and i thought 'hmm, y'know i could probably play that tune all downstrokes'. Now, all of a sudden a lot of things make a lot more sense, but, boy, do i feel slo-ow on the uptake -- 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.
