Don't forget the fish in the neck! Wonder what kinda sausage that would make.... I would surely need some of that fine Green muck to season the water for poaching though.
On Mar 5, 12:06 pm, Mike Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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