Mandolin Practice

Hello!  What’s goin’ on????

I just had a very good mandolin practice.  I worked on a few new tunes and then went down my list of songs that I know from memory.  My fingers were flying!!  They’ve been a little sore, but didn’t bother me this time.  I play a few from that list every day so that they are fresh in my mind and I will know how the song starts if I am requested to play it.  There’s nothing more frustrating than to know a song … but can’t quite remember how it starts.  When that happens, I can sometimes play a bit of the end of the song and then go right into the beginning.  Other times I have to wait until I hear someone else start it and then I’m good to go!  On the rare occasion that no one remembers how it goes … time to move to the next song!  Thankfully that doesn’t happen very often.  

When I practice, I alternate between my instruments.  That way I can keep the fingering straight.  Sometimes it is hard to keep your fingering straight when you’re changing between instruments.  You also have to keep the strings straight.  When I put my fiddle down and switch to the tenor banjo it may take a moment for my fingers to make the switch.  When I put my tenor banjo down and switch to playing melody on the guitar … now … that can mess with your head.  Lol That’s why I practice switching from one to the other.  If I’m practicing later in the evening, I pick up the electric mandolin or the electric fiddle.  The reason being that if they are not plugged into an amp, they are relatively quiet and not going to bother anyone.  Those are also the ones that I grab if I am the first one up in the morning and feel the need to play.  You can’t always make your practice time convenient for everyone around you, no matter how hard you try.

Doug is redoing my counter tops for me.  I’m preparing to make some cooking videos.  We are just sprucing up a bit before I begin that project.  It’s going to be pretty.  I sure do appreciate all the things that he is able to do.  Thank you, honey!!

We have been cold here.  Been getting down to the negative digits at night.  Today the high is supposed to get up to 46 degrees!!!!  We’re going to think it’s summer!!!!  I can’t wait!!!!!  What have the temperatures been like where you are?  We have a music gig coming up on Wednesday that we are really looking forward to.  The last one got cancelled because of snow and ice.  We played here at home, but it just wasn’t the same!  Poor Doug had been working so hard on a new tune for that night and he was disappointed when he didn’t get to go play.  Two more days bud … two more days!

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