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Hi everybody,

Just wanted to stop in here to say that I’ve posted a new lesson to the lessons page. This one is about learning tunes by ear, and I use Angeline The Baker as an example. I hope you like it!

Check out the new lesson here!

Thanks,
Baron

Have you ever heard of a great tune, and gone looking for a recording of it so you can learn it, only to find a noisy, blurry, way-to-fast version somewhere on youtube? I have had this experience often, and decided a couple years ago to start uploading traditional fiddle tunes to Youtube in a simple, straightforward way that are at a reasonable tempo so people looking to learn a tune could find a clean version from which to learn it.

As of the beginning of this year, I have over 100 of my favorite fiddle tunes uploaded to my youtube account, waiting to be learned! Check them out, and let me know if there is a tune you’d like to see me record:

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Looks like Chris Thile has been named a MacArthur Fellow. Find out more in the video below:

It looks like MandolinCafe is holding another mandolin giveaway! Its always exciting when one of these pops up, and I hope you head over there and enter to win. Here is the link:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/giveaway/

It looks like they are giving away a The Loar LM-700-VS. I’ve played a few instruments from these guys and must say that I was impressed.

Some of the finest Mandolin related humor of all time. From the late great John McGann. Enjoy:

Here is a great version of a great tune I witnessed first hand at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in upstate NY in 2011. Over the waterfall is a great tune, and one of the first tunes I learned. Finding the video of Chris Thile playing it at Grey Fox over a year later, it has sparked my interest in the tune again. Of course, he adds his Thileisms to the tune, but it made me think that over the waterfall would be a great tune to make a lesson for. So stay tuned!

Also, check out the crazy fingerpicking he does starting a little after 4:25. He may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but there is no denying he knows how to navigate around a mandolin!