12 THINGS I Wish I Knew as a Beginner Mandolinist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มี.ค. 2024
- If I could go back in time to when I was a beginner, there's a lot of things I'd tell myself to do different! Here are 12 things I wish I knew back then, with a little help from Caterina Lichtenberg, Mike Marshall, and all the folks at the Mandolin World Retreat.
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Mike and Caterina are both such wonderful, generous people. Thanks for making this David!
I was there!! It's all true, so much fun learning with this great group of instructors and participants. Thanks to all, Lynne
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Cheers!
Mike Marshall's gator strut actually changed everything for me as a mandolin player.
Great video! It actually delivers more than it promises. This is what I got from it:
1. Have the instrument(s) out in a prominent place as a visual reminder to practice.
2. More time to practice
3. Don’t play so hard relax
4. Hold on to every note.
a. Attack
b. Sustain
c. Connection of one note to the next
5. Listening to more players
6. Use the metronome
7. Pick direction alternate picking -
8. Explore other music
9. Learn the notes start by knowing notes on dotted frets and memorize natural notes on each string.
10. Don’t be afraid of music theory helps with improvising and composing connecting the dots
11. Transcribe solos from other players
12. Mike Marshall - Posture - where leg is - footstool - making sure wrist on left hand doesn’t bend backwards
13. Mike Marshall - It’s a journey and you come to these places when you are ready for them. It’s on going process. You just have to be open for it.
14. Go to the Jam
Very inspiring, what a joy to watch! Thank you for these impressions and important ideas, David!
This is superb across the board.
Great video. That camp looked like a blast. Best wishes to you and Tabitha from the guy in the Sore Fingers dinner queue.
Within a year of joining Mike's ArtistWorks School he urged me to cross the Atlantic and attend the 2015 Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz. To meet Mike, David Grisman, Roland White, Sharon Gilchrist and more besides was amazing and I travelled back the following year to the Swannanoah Gathering where I spotted David Benedict for the first time. What an experience all that was too, and also getting to meet my ArtistWorks guitar teacher, Bryan Sutton, at the Diana Wortham Theatre at the end of the week. Since then gradually the mandolin has taken over as my first instrument and for this I mainly blame Mike Marshall! Thanks David also for all you do too.
David Benedict has been my Mike Marshall :) I thank you David.
What I wish I knew back then is not to rely so heavily on tab instead of learning more theory. I’ve literally wasted 46 years on tablature alone, which was a real mistake.
Picked up my first mandolin 2 weeks ago and can't stop playing it! Gonna try out some of your tips tomorrow and maybs knuckle down on a new song. Great video :)
After I missed last years retreat, I wanted to go this year, but I honestly picked up my mandolin maybe once a month within the last year. If I can pull my finger out and practice this year, I’m going to try to make it next year.
We appreciate the advice David!
I wish there was a mandolin symposium near me.
Wonderful video David! I was in Benicia back in 2022 and it was such a wonderful experience. Particularly for my first visit to CA as well!
I started about 3 months ago and I've learned to not get so upset if I can't play fast. I've learned that its okay if you can't play fast, that may come later..
If it wasn't for your lessons, I think that I would not have bought a mandolin in the first place, but I'm retired now and will have a lot of time on my hands.
Your new mandolin sounds super.
Thanks for this David,.... very helpful and encouraging video.
I smiled through this entire thing. Great vid, David!
David, thanks for posting another great video! I appreciate the tips offered by your experts. Wish I could have attended!
Very nice David. Looks like a great time was had by all.
Super vid David thank you!!
Excellent tips for beginners and really anyone of any level.
These are some great ideas. Thank you!
Hello David
I am new to the mandolin. I play the guitar also. I am Scottish 🏴 I like Scottish/Irish music also bluegrass. Where can you buy background music guitar.
What is best to buy as a learner the Round hole, like a soundhole on an acoustic guitar
Thanks David!
Love your tips.
Moving in a couple weeks. Hoping to find a "jam" in my new home town.
Fantastic!
Sunrift Adventures? Travelers Rest, SC?
David, thanks for another great video. You have been a big help in getting started on the mandolin. I like the idea of getting my mandolin out of the case, which brand/model stand do you show in the video? I also purchased a metronome, something I was just thinking about last night after a short practice session. I hope to avoid learning too many bad habits.
i wish they had this in Eastern North Carolina!
As always David, another good video that will be useful to many beginner and intermediate mandolin students. I must confess that after all my years of playing guitar and mandolin, I still don't know what the names of the notes I'm playing are. My brain doesn't work that fast. I just try to play a note that sounds good. That might be my entire life philosophy.
I’m a life long musician, moving from strumming guitar to picking mandolin, I am resisting memorizing note names. I guess I know what you mean by only playing notes that sound good, but you have to know the ones not to play or it’d just stay as trial and error. So how do you organize? Patterns?
@@markoshun I agree with all David's advice. But for me learning melodies such as fiddle tunes plus practicing some scales or modes, with repetitive exercises, helps me to learn what sounds good. And even though I know the note names in a G scale, for example, when I play/practice the scale my brain does not pay attention to the note names but my eyes do recognize a pattern. If I close my eyes I can still play this scale/pattern because of muscle memory. So I can hear the notes I pick, but my brain doesn't have time to name it. And when I improvise a solo or break, I can rely on the key of the tune which gives me a scale or mode as a safety net. I know I can play those notes and be safe. So then I put my effort into making a phrase with a few of those notes and try to say something or express something or use a lick I learned. But I'm not thinking about note names at that point, just how the notes sound alone or together.
And then when you learn to use chromatics, well, almost any note goes. You can move through the so called "bad" or "wrong" notes and it can still sound good, usually if you end on a "right" sounding note.
But as they say, knowledge is power, so it doesn't hurt to learn some theory to tie it all together. And learn at least what David suggested, the note names where the dots on the fingerboard lay. In fact, I think I'll do that tonight when I have time to practice.
@@rickmoore52 Ok, thanks. So you are using your scale patterns, similar songs in the same key, etc. to map out target notes. I doubt David is ‘thinking’ the note letters either while he’s picking. Though since he’s a teacher he uses them all the time. I’ve just been memorizing patterns rather than focusing at all on note names.
An analogy is with grammar. Everyone uses it but most can’t describe it. And you’d be a mess if you tried to ‘think’ the rules as you talked. We’ve all forgotten most the rules we learned in school but can still speak goodly. 😁
Tbh as a complete novice, it's more than daunting.. especially when your teaching yourself from you tube..
As a novice myself I totally understand you. The hardest part is trying to overcome ourselves and the fear of failing. We can never fail at learning, only gain knowledge and memory and that will aid us to only get better ❤.
What a cool and nice guy u seem to be
I love the classical piece everyone is playing as a group, but always forget the name of it. Can someone clue me in? thank you Also! thank you for this video David.
I really need to carve out time to learn how to play. I've owned a mandolin for years now, but I rarely pick it up.
Just do it. Make a plan. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail".
I wish I learned it’s not “practice that makes perfect”. It’s “perfect practice that makes perfect”. It’s easy to train your brain through repetition, but hard to unlearn bad habits. Take the time to learn it right.
David, are you still selling those Mandolin Mondays hoodies and T-shirts? I still have mine, but they're getting "worn" in both senses!
Hey David, what college did you go to for music, was it Berklee?
Wundervoll
I wish I had known two frets per finger and wrist position, pick grip, posture...It's taken years.
What is “shuro” mandolin? Never heard of it. How do you spell it?
Choro is a Brazilian style of music
My first teacher told me to root my right hand onto the bridge. 🤮 It took some years, but I learned to let the top ring.
Have some FUN, people. It's only music for Chrissake!
I started mandolin a month ago
Are you enjoying it so far?
Yay! Welcome!
Can we just clear on language aspect up. As Mike says, it's not the things "I wish I knew", it's the "things I wish I had known". Linguistic correctness must surely compliment articulation and phrasing.
Very nice, but too expensive for three days of non-one-on-one instruction.
TLDR
I appreciate your mandolin expertise, but why can't you use correct grammar for this?
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