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Joel Glassman
Apr-20-2005, 3:45pm
Hi everyone--
I'm looking for some examples of bossa rhythm
playing on mandolin. (David Grisman, Paul Glasse and
Michael Lampert are 3 I already have.) thanks--Joel
glauber
Apr-20-2005, 4:54pm
I think Jethro did some. Don Stiernberg taught me an arrangement of Wave that he learned from him.
I learned Wave from a Dave Peters CD, Art in America. Great tune and lots of fun to play.
What other Bossa Nova stuff are you guys playing?
I think Tom Ohmsen plays some bossa on the mandolin.
mandocrucian
Apr-21-2005, 9:55am
If you want it to sound "right", you need to start using pick+fingers, or RH fingerstyle for your chording and rhythm vamps. That's they way most of the Latin guitarists play, and if you want that feel/groove and laid back attack, you need to emulate the same physical RH technique that those guys used. You can use just the pick, and play the appropriate pitches, but it just ain't the same.
Niles H
May. 8-11, 2005: RHYTHM Mandolin Boot Camp (Intermediate level and up) (http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/northern/)
glauber
Apr-21-2005, 10:34am
But, if you take this route, you might as well not try. Traditional Bossa Nova is strictly a guitar sport (nylon strings, played Classical style). Not only that, but we tend to stay on the guitar's 5 lower strings, to create a soft, low tone. There's no mandolin in traditional Bossanova, unless i missed it.
However, there's plenty of flute, for example, and the mandolin fits right in as a melodic instrument, with a few chords thrown in, a la Django.
mandocrucian
Apr-22-2005, 10:05am
But, if you take this route, you might as well not try. Traditional Bossa Nova is strictly a guitar sport (nylon strings, played Classical style).
So, I guess that, by extrapolation, also answers the question "Can blue men sing the whites?"
NH
glauber
Apr-22-2005, 10:26am
No, not really! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Joel Glassman
Apr-26-2005, 10:59am
>So, I guess that, by extrapolation, also answers the question "Can blue men sing the whites?"
Bonzo Dog Band! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif