I have fat blunt fingers. I trying to learn to play. My problem is hitting to many strings at one time. Any thing you can suggest would be greatly appreciated.

I've learned just about every song you've put on your channel. And most of the time I can sit down and figure them back out on my own. But it's nice to be able to go back when it's just not coming back to me and rewatch the lessons real quick. Keep doing what you do buddy

watching from minford ohio

Great tune!

Really cool! I'm still learning the instrument, would have been swell to have tabs for this, but still great tutorial!

Thanks Neil. I'm always so glad to see you have given lesson on the song I'm tring to learn. You are thorough. And very insightful. I owe most my progress to you and I sound pretty good to me and that's enough to keep me picking on.. thanks a ton my friend..

Thank you man what a great lesson

I don't know much about it, but I do know that copyright laws apply not only to the music itself, they apply to copyrighted performances as well. A performance, or even an arrangement, of a very old piece of music may be copyrighted.

Great lesson. I started on mandolin a few months ago and this song I’ve always wanted to play.

got 5 days to master it...looks fun to play. nice one!

Nice

Now, time to stare at a random man's hand for half an hour. Thanks!

Nice...thanks! Can't wait for the lesson.

That was fun! 🤩 Thank you

Cool story!

Can I buy the tabs without becoming a member? Merry Christmas!

now thats some holiday cheer!

Bravo! Well done sir! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas! Watching from Loudoun County, Virginia

I just bought one the other day. It's an Xmas gift so I'm not gonna get to fool with it right away but I'm thinking of taking the stock pickup out and putting a Fender in or something similar.

Another great tutorial. Thanks Neal and Merry Christmas!

One time again... Thank you! Tibo from France

Nice arrangement, Neal! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Beautiful in its simplicity! Thank you, and have a blessed Christmas!

Hi, I just repaired an old banjoline...I've been trying to play for 3 days, and this tune is perfect to start with! Any other pieces to recommend? I play Salt Creek, Whiskey for breakfast, Jerusalem Ridge on guitar but I also like rock, punk, the Pogues, Hawkwind... it's very varied! Tibo, a Belgian who lives in the mountains in France, near Grenoble THANKS!!!

West Virginia

Great video, thanks

Thanks for this lesson. I’m going to have to break out my old Jimmy Reed discs.

Excellent stuff. Have a great Christmas!

That was lovely, thank you Neal... Merry Christmas to you !

Beautiful rendition, Merry Christmas to you 🎅

Merry Christmas😊

Hey yall from, Florida

Thanks 🙏

I have recently purchased a mandolin because of the battle of evermore and then seen a video on utube about an active mandolin shaped like a guitar do u have one and can u do a video with it ?

Think it a try..thanks

Thank you for your great videos. Just what I was looking for. Pin near Binghamton, NY USA

Villa Park Illinois here - this and Linus and Lucy and O Tannebaum so far!

That's the whole point Neal. They don't want us to understand; makes it easier to take advantage of us.

You're right, it's also common, and I don't believe there's ANY absolute standard that y00b00b adheres to. We hear stories like this all the time. It's either copyright issues, content, political policy, whatever, and it goes on and on. But none of it, NONE of it should ever apply to something in public domain. That's a mystery. MAYBE if some artist recorded THEIR version of a song that's in public domain, there could POSSIBLY be a form of "publishing" rights to that exact recorded piece of music, but not a copyright. That doesn't make sense unless you're distributing the actual pirated copy of some such artist's specific performance that had a publishing right attached to it. There MUST be certain people (like moderators for instance) that are "assigned" to these tasks. And the way it gets played out in real-time makes it seem as if every one of those moderators (or whatever they call them) has their own method of "interpreting" y00b00b policies. That's the the only thing that makes sense without me knowing any other method of execution [they] adhere to. there must also be some type of algorithm(s) in place that confuse these things and whether to target or flag them. the whole thing is confusing. Here's the one that REALLY GETS ME; The most irresponsible thing I see with some people that post certain known copyrighted material (that also typically has a publishing right attached to it), is when they also include a statement like this: "I do not own the rights to this! No copyright intended." yadda yadda, or something like that. What they DON'T REALIZE is that by doing what I just mentioned puts them in a serious possibility for legal problems. The point being, that IF you actually ADMIT that you DO NOT OWN the copyrights to something that you're sharing, then legally you ARE knowingly committing copyright infringement!! That's what makes it seem so st00pid?? There's like a million of those, and I always wonder why they don't suffer any repercussions from y00b00b. I don;t WANT to see them get in any trouble, but they should NOT include that false disclaimer that actually IS NOT A LEAGAL disclaimer. They need to ask a copyright lawyer about that. They'll tell them to NEVER post anything like that. In other words: If you KNOW that there may be a copyright attached to that particular content, then don't EVER post such incriminating actionable information when you're sharing something without legal and/or authorized permission. Now I have only a few files posted myself. When I look at the little automatic tags that y00b00b attaches to those clips, I see a couple "copyright" notes in one of the columns. I don't know if y00b00b is intending to review that, or what it really means by being there. BUT we actually DID pay for and obtain a licensing for duplication, performance, and/or distribution for two of those songs we did a while back. In fact when they were first released, the duplication company required us to submit a copy of that licensing in order to make the duplications. We even additionally had direct permission authorized to us from Racer-X themselves to record and distribute that "Y. R. O." song. IDK, it's always going to be a mystery... until maybe Elon Musk buys y00b00b, and straightens out THIS place too! LOL!! ~JSV

I hope I wasn't any of my requests that got you harassed. Hope everything goes OK neil.

Espero sigas, me gusta lo que haces y la verdad me ayudan tus tutoriales, gracias

Great rant Neal ! Love it

So all these little bands covering songs all over the world, are breaking copyright laws? I think KZbin tries to find any way to demonetize a video. Then they will slap an ad on the same video and make money from it. I started posting videos on Rumble. I’m not in it for the money. I haven’t had a video demonetized yet.

Maybe on a different platform? Rumble etc. KZbin is giving me a warning just for commenting. 😮😮

I find that all of the social media platforms can be inconsistent when it comes tovthe rules. My guess is that there is a technology based sort of surveilance that picks up on sonething and then dings you However, if you can get a real person to look your issue, it might be determined that you are OK. How can it be that other people are posting Greensleeves tutorials without any apparent problem. Does KZbin have something lije the equivalent of a customer service contact? I lesrned a trick from a career that involved navigating a lot of bureaucracy - If I was told that I couldn't do something because of a rule or regulation, Iwould ask whoever told ne that to cite tge regulation. Most of the time, no such regulation exists. If it can ve cited, I could figure out how to avoid violating the regulation.

🐴💩 indeed. I'm a pro cellist and retired professor, so I was less affected than you have been. Still, it was always a mystery. 🤨

Sorry for your troubles Sir. No good deed goes unpunished is very appropriate in this instance.

Excellent point Neal as was the post from our buddy at Rock and Pop Mandolin. Keep on keeping on for us though. We Love your channel!

You can pay for rights for pop music, it’s not cheap. But a channel as big as Beato I bet he pays for licenses. There’s multiple agencies and they’re $1000s a pop. The Irish stuff should be fine unless it was recorded by another artist and maybe your work sounds like it unknowingly? Does Irish music have a different copyright rule than here in the US? Sorry this is happening it’s unnerving for sure.