Is there mojo in having a snapping turtle jaw, like a rattlesnake rattle, inside your mandolin?
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Mando Chef <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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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