It Started with The Virginia Waltz

Had a great in-person lesson on Tuesday and so yesterday, head full of ideas, had to break my instrument out to see what I could do. My big questions at my lesson were about fitting triplets and sixteenth notes into regular alternate picking. We came up with for or...

Taking a Look at my Martin Backpacker Mandolin

Martin guitars have always had a mythical status in my family because of a long-sold Martin that one of my dad’s older brothers owned when they were young. I remember how jealously I looked at the magazine ads when the Martin Backpacker Mandolin came out, and how sad...