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Mandolin Blues Lick of the Day #19 – 7.30.23

I’m stuck on bass lines. I don’t think that many mandolinists think about playing “bass lines” behind others. Don’t think you can

Time for another Jim Richter mandolin blues instruction lick of the day. Today is the “lumpty” bass pattern, often heard in Chicago

Hi all! This a cool major pentatonic lick heard in blues and other other blues forms (country, rock, jazz). Simple little lick

Today’s mandolin blues instruction: turnarounds. Lots of cool ways to do them in blues. What you’ll find is that you gravitate toward

If you only were to own one acoustic duet album, you could do no better than Blake and Rice. The two Tony

To me, Free was one of the most important rock bands of the 1970’s. They helped move the blues-based rock of the

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Growing up, you couldn’t escape either Country Gazette or Berline, Crary, and Hickman. Byron Berline dazzled on the fiddle.. The Oklahoma fiddler

This was probably the tune that made it ok for me to like (and eventually love) Led Zeppelin. As a teen bluegrass

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