sbhikes’s six hundred and one comments

I thought noodling was when there’s a break between tunes and someone starts playing random licks and things to fill the silence. This bugs me because I might be trying to remember how something starts and I can’t think when they’re playing. more…

Some of the “easy” ones are really hard for me and I can’t for the life of me figure out why they are considered standard beginner tunes. Sometimes when I put my violin away for a while I play it really well the day I come back to it. more…

Interestingly it looks like someone filled it in on the recording link I posted, but they replaced the original name of Tony MC Mahon’s which is the name that comes up when you play the CD. more…

Oh wow I found it by searching for the notes one string over on my fiddle. Of course I can’t pronounce it. Na Ceannabháin Bhána. more…

I have this compilation: more…

Damp dampen, not sure the right word I should have used. more…

Do you think it sounds better to stuff something in the back of your banjo to make it sound less sustained or do you prefer to have more sustain and not put rags in the back? I kind of like the way it sounds without putting anything in back. more…

If you listen to the others you will hear it when you accidentally go into the A part before you’re done playing both of the B parts or whatever, and then you can quickly catch yourself and fix it. more…

I sometimes have names for things or common phrases that tunes have in them. “Pillows” or “Peppermint”, for example. The sound feels or sounds like word to me. I also think some keys have colors although I don’t literally see the color. more…

I can pick up a lot of tunes on the fly. My fingers know where to go before my brain can tell you what note it is. And so I slowly teach myself the tune by getting my hands to find bits and pieces of it. more…