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Hi, I think this is a really common problem in the land of self-taught music. Many people will advocate for getting a teacher, as this will help you with accountability and structure to your practice and keep you from jumping from song to song or technique to style and never really nailing any...

I have a short scale Ibanez mikro bass. I ordered it from some random music store last year; never did a setup or anything on it, haven't played it much since I got it. Pulled it out today, tuned it up (I downtuned when it got shipped when I moved a few months ago) and understandably I've got a...

Still available...make me an offer!

No worries Jim! I just wanted to encourage audio for the folks that might be discouraged from posting because they feel pressured to get on camera :)

I'm stoked; I really didn't think this was going to be so popular!

Very dreamy indeed! :love:

Hey everybody, I came across this "20 hour ukulele challenge" series put together by a music teacher. The series is designed to help someone who has never played a ukulele get started playing some songs! Disclaimer; I have not worked through this series myself, however I have used this guy's...

Off to a solid start! @polimoli, very cool alternate tuning! I don't think I've heard anyone play in that before. @Oldscruggsfan, I agree with Amie; the old-timey sound really works with the song...intentional or not it sounds great! Plenty of time to work on a tune and post; hope we see lots...

Just learn a simple song that you can play fluidly. Even if all you're doing is strumming C, G, Am, F with the island strum. It sounds good and gives you an idea of how the instrument plays, and it sounds like music so it sounds like you know what you're doing even if you feel like you don't...

I'm with you on this. I started with a $120 Kala, and once I knew it was something I was going to stick with and wanted to keep doing, I took the plunge and got a Koaloha, maybe a month into learning how to play. I think I improved faster on the Koaloha than I did the Kala, because it not only...

Hey everybody! Do you play your tenor in Bb? Your soprano in D? Your baritone in A? Drop F? Some other crazy tuning even further off the beaten track? This is the contest for you! Rules: Entries must be embedded in posts. Use whatever platform you wish to record on as long as you can embed...

This is the only kind of "social media" I'm interested in. No intrusive ads, no "curated content," no algorithms trying to steal your attention and push engagement; the newest posts are on top and that's it. And the most polarizing thing we discuss here is high g vs low g! I also don't have a...

Worth it imo, but I also don't go through strings quickly or change them as often as I probably should. You could probably try making your own set out of some guitar strings; the gauges are listed on the site and Perry posted them in the thread here.

Price drop. Willing to go halvsies on a hardshell for the Risa with any prospective buyer (they're 119 Euro).

These are great. I have them on my Kamaka HF-3L (19" scale) and it sounds incredible.

Weekend bump. Open to reasonable offers.

https://reverb.com/item/80341992-1928-martin-ak-koa-flatback-mandolin-video-fresh-work-ready-to-go Anybody play mandolin? $1600 for a 1928 all koa Martin seems like a great deal.

It's an interesting topic. I wonder if there are any righties out there that play left-handed for the fretting advantage.

What's wrong with having a lefty in class? Having to convert an instrument, or are they harder to teach/learn?

Wow, finally doing a baritone! I wonder why now after all these years? ....am I the only person that hates the LP/telecaster shape...? It's always disappointing that everyone seems to gravitate towards it. Never been a fan of the look of cutaways on acoustics, either. Still, looks like lots of...