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Libby and I are in this video

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Cool…that was lot of work for a lot of folks. Nice job @Mason_Crone and @Flatpickin_Libby!

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Thanks!

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Libby that solo just screamed Jake Workman.

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Ah that’s so cool! Mason and Libby, you both killed it! Mason, I see your playing your new mandolin.

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@Shaky_loves_banjo I am very honored you hear that style! Although I did write it myself! :slight_smile:

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Thanks! Yeah, I’ll always be playing it when I play mandolin. My break was pretty bad, not very tasteful but hopefully I’ll get better over time.

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It was great! Very clean and tasteful.

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Sounded fine to me. I’ve just started learning triplets not too long ago. pretty tough

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Yeah, they can be hard. I think it would’ve sounded better if I alternated between the normal melody and triplets. It was also kind of a joke because when Marcel announced that we were doing it at 90 BPM I was like “That’s sloooow” :joy: So I just did triplets for the whole thing. I think it would’ve sounded better if I hadn’t though.

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What was your A part like? Sorry I didn’t get to hear it.

Triplets are hard- you did well. I inserted a few triplets but they were the hammer-on triplets (aka cheating) :wink:

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Thanks. The A part was just a “triplety” St Anne’s Reel. I was kinda disappointed that Marcel only used half of it because playing triplets for 50 seconds ain’t easy :joy: I understand that he had to cut some stuff though to keep the video from being an hour long.

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Great job y’all! @Mason_Crone nothing wrong with one of those breaks where you just goof off, especially in an extended jam… just ask The Dragon! :smiley:

I’m thinking about doing this song for Galax. I have no luck coming up with a song to do but I could take this one slow and maybe do some cool stuff with it.

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Thanks. I thought you said you didn’t like this song… :joy:

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I don’t… :joy:

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Speaking of goof off breaks, my sister and I were playing Cold Frosty Morning the other day and on my third break I decided to just do whatever my fingers wanted to. It turned out pretty cool, my sister laughed :joy: I’ve been working a lot on improv. It gets easier over time, still got a long way to go. It’s something I kinda ignored until I met @Dragonslayer and realized I had to just play the same break over and over. I want to be able to do new stuff each time.

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Sounds like a good Galax song to me! I worked on my arrangement for a while today. It’s 2/3 done! (and a lot of Jake) :slight_smile:

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Let’s see it!

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Great artists in the making! You both were awesome and others too! And nice music to top it off.

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Ok but that triplet solo was really cool. It’s something I would do for my third or fourth solo in a jam or something.

Literally the best person to jam with!!

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