Activity

Had an enjoyable Beginner Meet Up on evening of July 25th.
@lavonjohn and his partner Andrea tuned in. Thanks folks 🙂

Some points discussed:

Thursday Practice Group supports ones practise well, Always gives a little clue/aid

Playing other instruments and how that could supplement/support our fiddle practice

Noticing how ones hearing can be affected after listening digitally with headphones and then going to play an instrument afterwards

Bass lines – Chuck Barry
Finger picking – Paul Simon, James Taylor
– Jim Deeming has great guitar finger picking videos on YouTube

Working on tune, Love Me Tender, coming from Old civil war tune – Aura Lee

1/4/5 based rhythm backup

Mutes – varying degrees of strength
Ear plugs instead of mute

Andrea new to learning Cello similarly to John with Fiddle

John and Andrea Have YouTube channel – during pandemic – Acoustic – Guitar and Mandolin
Lakedogs Table For Two
https://www.youtube.com/@lakedogs6816

Don’t Let The Old Man In

Su & Jules Slow Jam – Old Tyme
https://www.youtube.com/@sumo55sumo/videos

Great music camps:

In Dallas in spring

Home

New Mexico
https://dnamusiccamp.com/

Great Fiddler – Robert Bowlin

Great resource for music camps
https://www.mandolincafe.com/