Thank you Jim for your 'givenness' to share. I'm an Aussie with very little input for this kind of music. I wish I was born in your country, living next door to you would be heaven. :) Your willingness to let us 'lesser' players see into your experience is priceless. Thank you. You are a Godsend.
I firmly believe the root of your carpal tunnel lies in trying to play guitar tunes, particularly heavy use of bar chords on the mandolin. You are concentrating a lot of muscle force on a much smaller fretboard than a guitar - hence F/A (force over area) higher and this creates more pressure on your carpals.
Jim, I thoroughly enjoy your posts. They have helped me progress tremendously by just hearing new licks... Unlink Whopsy, I appreciate you commentary on 'theory' and also like the fact that you connect these to other musicians / instruments as it really does help to interpret the music by knowing the source.
THANK YOU and please keep posting! AND Talking too.
Thanks a lot, Jim. There would never be any need for you to apologise for anything here in this forum. I hope that your wrists will be improving from now on. And by the way, you could even make a cigar box with a couple of strings sound great.
This is great stuff. Thank you very much.
mbatch8 1 year ago
Thank you Jim for your 'givenness' to share. I'm an Aussie with very little input for this kind of music. I wish I was born in your country, living next door to you would be heaven. :) Your willingness to let us 'lesser' players see into your experience is priceless. Thank you. You are a Godsend.
daozbattler 1 year ago
üben!
Wobei 1 year ago
just starting to learn the blues mandolin. very informative thanks
pranabowjake 2 years ago
Thanks Jim, keep posting and we'll keep riffin'
OldHPAT145 2 years ago
I firmly believe the root of your carpal tunnel lies in trying to play guitar tunes, particularly heavy use of bar chords on the mandolin. You are concentrating a lot of muscle force on a much smaller fretboard than a guitar - hence F/A (force over area) higher and this creates more pressure on your carpals.
george383 2 years ago
Very cool! Thank you for calling out the frets. It's always hard to tell exactly what's happening from the video.
Nice shirt!
zerobatsu 2 years ago
Jim, I thoroughly enjoy your posts. They have helped me progress tremendously by just hearing new licks... Unlink Whopsy, I appreciate you commentary on 'theory' and also like the fact that you connect these to other musicians / instruments as it really does help to interpret the music by knowing the source.
THANK YOU and please keep posting! AND Talking too.
cosmoK18 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
tooo much fkin talking
Whospy 3 years ago
It's instruction
JimRichter 3 years ago
Jim,
Want to thank you for sharing your knowledge/skills in this great series of lessons. Way special, man.
I have to echo Dab's sentiment.....your teaching has helped me make leaps and bounds in learning blues mando. I build 'em....better play 'em. HAHAHA
PLEASE.....keep them coming!!!!
mandolunatic 3 years ago
EXCELLENT LESSONS!
I've gotten this far from lesson 1 and I already feel tripple as good as I was before!
Thanks Jim!
TheDabinator 3 years ago
Thanks a lot, Jim. There would never be any need for you to apologise for anything here in this forum. I hope that your wrists will be improving from now on. And by the way, you could even make a cigar box with a couple of strings sound great.
8strings 4 years ago
Jim-excellent lesson. I'd love to see more of these.
secsc2 4 years ago
Pointed to this via comando. I've been wanting to learn some blues stuff beyond the obvious. Thanks!
ludditerobot 4 years ago