mandolin duet tab?

[jim_n_virginia]

Anybody know of any websites that have mandolin duet tab? What are some good mandolin instrumentals that make good duet music? Or anyone have any tab they can send me?

In other words I am looking two sets of tab for a song. The main melody and another the harmony parts.

Thanks in advance for any help or direction provided.

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[MDW]

Niles Hokkanen has book out called "Twin Mandolin Method" that really tells how to create the harmony parts for a mandolin duet with lots of tabbed examples. Another book "Twin Mandolin Workshop" by Robert Bowlin doesn't really go into the theory much but does give a lead and harmony version of a number of well known tunes. If you just want tab get the Bowlin book, if you want to understand the process get the Niles book.

[Jasper]

Here on the cafe under tablature, there are twelve duets listed though I am not sure what they are. Also, if you can translate from standard notation to tab, most songs have harmony to go along with the melody.

[AlanN]

I like the Bowlin book for the tunes and harmony parts (and playing on the cassette) - all top notch. The tab in the book stinks <g>.

Ray Legere tabbed out all his mandolin solos to his fine recording Common Denominator. Amidst the tabs are the second mandolin parts he did, very accessible and straightforward. Check his website.

[Jim Yates]

Check out Dix Bruce's Mel Bay book "Mandolin Harmonics". It's a good variety of duet & trios with instructions about creating your own harmonies. It sounds like a good companion to Niles's course.

Also many fiddle books have harmonies written in them. DON MESSER'S FAVOURITE FIDDLE TUNES has a great arrangement of Honeymoon Waltz that sounds good on treloloed mandolins.

[jim_n_virginia]

Thanks all! I will be investigating all these possibilities mentioned. I had seen the duet tab on the Cafe but I just didn't see anything there that grabbed me. Will track down some of the books and CD's.

thanks again!

[grandmainger]

Jim, my favourite one is Ashokan Farewell Duet, available fom MandoZine. It's a great one, and is very easy to lear, with lots of room for adding your own arrangements.
I've alos been working on Canon by Pachelbel, which is a long classicla piece that is meant for 4 instruments to play in canon, but 2 mandos sound great too. Again, it's on mandozine...
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Germain

[kyblue]

My favorite is Walk Beside Me, the first song on the Darrell Scott/Tim O'Brien CD Real Time. I believe that's a mando and mandola.

Don't have the tab, but my teacher Daniel Carwile and I are going to work on it soon.

Paula