Chris Thile

The Mandolin player Chris Thile demonstrates the styles he plays in this video from Guitar Techniques.

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[BardofCornwall]

I could listen to this all day. Thanks for posting.

[Axeman89]

@BardofCornwall glad I could help :)

[horatiohellborn]

That's Chris Thile!  If you put that in the title, this would get literally thousands more hits.

[Axeman89]

@horatiohellborn Hey thanks for the heads up man my, sources told me something different. I'll get on it :)

[dgmando1]

@bluegrasssingingman Do I really have to hand you your ass again? I thought this was over 3 months ago? He isn't talking about chords. He is talking about specific notes in the improvisational melody lines. Don't play an F instead of an F# while improvising unless it makes sense. Don't you have a Michele Bachmann rally to attend?

[bluegrasssingingman]

@hyaenidae No it is not related close at all. There is a thing called Chromatic scale. NewGrass pickers uses Chromatic. Which bluegrass doesn't use. I said Thile isn't Bluegrass. I said at best he is NewGrass, If you choose to rate him in Grass music. I didn't say he was anything. I said he shouldn't talk about Bluegrass Pickers. When he isn't one his self. The argument was this fiddle tune has a Em in it. Bluegrass pickers Are smarter then the correct he's giving us.

[hyaenidae]

@bluegrasssingingman Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it sucks. Punch Brothers isn't a Newgrass band, and they're not a bluegrass band, but they do play bluegrass tunes. Like 99 Years. But they play their own style, not Sam Bush or Darrol Anger style. Newgrass came from Bluegrass, which isn't like night and day, like you say. It's way more closely related than that.

[chromacopy1701]

This is one of the cooler vids-- is this an excerpt from a full interview/instructional video for sale somewhere? I don't think I see it online anywhere--

[LuxeXx]

Chris Thile used to be a fat kid. Just thought you'd like to know!

[bluegrasssingingman]

@hyaenidae Even with punch brothers. They aren't traditional Bluegrass. They are New Grass. That is like night and day. New Grass sucks like Pop Country.

[hyaenidae]

@bluegrasssingingman If you don't think his bluegrass is right, you should hear punch brothers playing 99 years. It's on youtube, look for it.

[HE4DACH3]

I love when he talks about listening to music analytically..so right on

[eliashunter89]

What does he say the name of the first "fiddle tune" is?

[ozzmonaut]

@hyaenidae If you read the July, 94 issue of Bluegrass magazine, Chris and his father talk in an interview about how the mandolin was the first instrument he remembers,owned, and trained in. He began asking about the mandolin when he was five, and was given one by Joey Latimer later a few months later. He began playing it on his own and two weeks later began lessons under John Moore.