While bronzeback fishing one time last summer here in the Raritan I came toe to toe with one of these garbage lid snappers. I panicked and ran out to the island I had been on and realized I should have run to shore! After a good quarter hour I thought I better get to shore so I ran diagonally and made it. Anyhow, I got interested in turtles and found out after reading a little, they RARELY bite. They snap centimeters from something bigger to scare it, but realize their defense is in their fear factor and shell. Interesting. Still, you couldn't catch me doing that, I hate snakes. I would love to try some turtle stew, but I don't think there are enough turtles for me to get a taste for them.
Nice video! MIke "turtle beef" Hoffming On Mar 5, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Mando Chef wrote: > > Practicing.... well with my 3 kiddos they enjoy me taking them on > walks and that's how I get my practice in. I don't get much time to > knuckle down and work something out, a little but not much. Here's a > little video my brother in law sent to me, no telling how many hours > it has taken him to get to his pinnicle so far. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn8EQ0azXpQ > > On what I look for in the practice??? I have over the past year > really focused on my right hand specifically loosening my wrist. A > lot of progress and this week I have been working on my left hand. > Having pretty good sized digits and I tend to wrap around as Tater > Tate pointed out on my last lesson, thank ya, sir! I am quite > possibly the worst Tab/Notation reader in history so alot of the books > and tab get somewhat lost on me... Video and knee to knee has been my > best success on learning tunes. > > I am beginning to find things in "closed" positions but am constantly > looking for ways to get up the neck with it making sense, yeah you can > imagine how that is going. > > "Hank" you, > Adam > > Oh yeah happy birthday Bob Wills, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh fiddles! > > On Mar 5, 9:05 am, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hoffming, >> I have the same hurdle here. I too have grand ideas of what I'm going >> to get accomplished, make lists, buy books, come up with a logical, >> progressive scheme/plan to get information and skills into my head >> and >> hands. It goes along great for a few weeks, and then wham...a tangent >> rears its head from across the way and I follow it. Could be a new >> tune, could be a new video, could be a cold, whatever. Mainly, it's a >> break in the routine that does it for me, that ruins my good >> intentions. I think I do it to myself, really. I think it starts to >> sink in that what I've given myself to do has absolutely no use to me >> in my current situation, that I am mainly just busy being busy. Now >> Matt Flinner, on the other hand, tailors his exercises to what he >> needs to know, or at least that's what I'm told. I don't know it to >> be >> fact. He makes his exercises pertinent to the present and he learns >> from them. Seems to me that would make playing exercises more fun as >> well. >> >> I agree with your idea that possibly slowing tunes down may not be >> entirely educational. It is a good way to learn the notes, sure, but >> in my experience, I find that a lot of Monroe's recordings don't >> really sound musical at half speed because I think he used techniques >> that fit the songs at those tempos and it doesn't seem that they fit >> that well at other tempos. >> >> Shoot, so much to do. Keep it coming. >> Overwhelmed in TN >> >> On Mar 4, 3:28 pm, Mike Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is always difficult for me. I come up with grandiose ideas >>> like, >>> I will complete the Odell Method for Duo and Trio mandolin or I will >>> do all the Bickford or Van Eps methods, but when I sit down and do >>> it >>> I only do a few exercises before playing some other "recreational" >>> stuff. When I feel motivated to learn, lately, I have been slowing >>> down music and trying to learn it that way. This is both fun AND >>> educational, but may not be great for technique. I must say though, >>> when I do force myself through some exercises before during and >>> after >>> playing over the course of a month or so I do notice immense >>> improvement. Right now though I have been doing schoolwork since >>> 8 am >>> until now and am sort of looking at my mandolin as it is saying, >>> "hey. psssst. Forget school." >> >>> This topic came up at an old time party last weekend. Me and some >>> friends were upstairs in the cupola of the center for cultural >>> evolution while three great jams raged below us. I just didn't feel >>> like playing. I knew that I went all the way up to this party to >>> blister my fingers, but at that moment I sort of felt more like >>> talking about divination and making fun of round peak banjo snobs. >>> Sure i missed out on some great opportunities to hone my skill, but >>> sometimes we can't force ourselves to improve and we must just >>> meddle >>> in mediocrity and make fun of those who are really good at that >>> skill, >>> ricky scaggs. >> >>> Robin, did you attend a Matt Flinner workshop? I recognized the one >>> exercise GD-GA-GE-GA-GD from his workshop, but then he added all >>> kinds >>> of cool double-stops to that picking pattern and also did EA-ED-EG- >>> EA >>> to work on picking the other way. I took a lot about practicing >>> from >>> his workshop (and did nothing about it) but he seems like a dude who >>> LOVES to practice, don't get me wrong, he really seems to make it >>> fun. He was encouraging us to take drills we know and make songs >>> out >>> of them or incorporate different melodies into them each time we do >>> it. Imagine the possibilities, we would be at 10K hours before we >>> know it! >> >>> On another note, that 10K hours does not take into consideration >>> talent. I am a believer that musical ability is a combination of >>> right >>> and left brain input. i am a guy with a marginal to slim amount of >>> natural talent, but I have taught myself a few things, imagine the >>> guy >>> who is REALLY talented (ricky scaggs, ; ) who can get there in like >>> 2500 hours? >> >>> back to Professional Development practices in Outward Bound EL >>> schools. >>> Mike > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
