Well done Charlie Belle and papa!
Charlie Belle has got the knack of laughing with dad, smiling, and learning her first amazing song! Thanks for sharing one of her first recitals; we gold member folks will tune in and watch her grow! That soprano mandolin looks huge in front of her; she’ll grow into it and maybe a few other instruments hanging around Banjo Ben. She sure will have a leg up on most of her friends!
I got pleasantly sidetracked with her premiere! I’m off track of Ben’s method some; I have a few dozen choruses and hymns in tab and standard. Simple melodies lines and going through them with Bill M’s “suggested” way of playing them “…like people singing them.” Basic question; I know you’ve covered a LOT. When the notes are quarter notes, I play with a downstroke, eighth notes up and down. As the melody changes between using both, I want to be sure to play the quarters all down and then resume up/down picking for eighth notes, correct? {Im given to play quarters with an alternate upstroke; do I want to focus my practice to follow these music rules for now?}