Well done, Aidan. Inspiring playing.
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Well done, Aidan. Inspiring playing.
I have a vintage A with a fairly high action and got a luthier to lower the nut slightly. In answer to my question on the forum, someone (Dave Cohen, would that be his name, it was a long time...
I am having a lot of fun playing Steve Cropper rhythms on the guitar. Has anybody ever tried doing this or heard anybody doing this on the mandolin?
I say Billy. Could you give me an idea of your settings for the music "sweet spot" please? I play guitar, mandolin, bass and keyboards (like to record myself by overdubbing) but it is listening to...
One of the kindest, most generous, thoughtful, wise and amazingly modest people I have ever known.
I have been spending some time reading some of the messages we have exchanged over the last 16-17...
Thanks a lot, Charles.
Thanks a lot for the clip, Charles.
Thanks for your replies. I am a fairly competent player. I was thinking more in terms of chordal work behind his riffs.
Suggestions please. A friend has sent me a recording of him playing Route 66. Blues version not the jazz version.
He is kind of playing a riff and chords. He wants me to put a mandolin on it. Any...
Excuse me if I have already posted a similar comment. I spent quite a years trying to hold my pick the standard way after spending most of my musical life holding it between three fingers. I just...
Thanks, Charlie, the recommendations at the end of the back are most enlightening.
Thanks for all of these tips.
Thanks everyone for this invaluable advice. I understand the idea of equalisation but what do mean by cutting frequencies? If you have the time to make a quick summary for bass, guitar and mandolin.
I like recording with mandolin, acoustic guitar, bass guitar (acoustic but plugged in) and vocals. Obviously overdubbing.
Nothing fancy, I just use Audacity
My question is how do the various...
This is a great resource. Use it a lot.
More information and sound files at this site:
http://www.skepticalguitarist.com/mandoblues/mandoblues.html
Thanks for the reply, Drew.
Thanks for the information, Drew. He also tunes his guitar down a semi-tone on some of his recordings. Is that a standard practice in some circles?
It's really excellent. I can't seem to find any other mandolin tunes by him though.
Funny he appears to be playing in G but he is tuned/recorded a semitone down. I also found a clip of him playing...
I just remembered that Josh White often recorded with acoustic guitar and double bass
Is there no other way of publishing your site content apart from or in addition to the Facebook angle, for people like me who would like to see another string added to the mandolin world, so to...
Thanks Keb. I have just listened to the samples on I-tunes and it's true the music is superb. The mandolin and bass are a perfect fit. I'm not mad about the voice though.
Brel was raised by Flemish parents in Brussels so I am not sure how far his soul was Gallic. I think he had struggled a lot with his identity, as a Fleming living in a primarily French-making city...
My doctor said I had menier's "syndrome", which is similar to the fully-fledged variety but you are not falling all over the place and vomiting. But it's true that doctors, even specialists cannot...
The first person who I actually saw in person playing Irish music was an Irishman I met in a bar 40 years ago (and we have been friends ever since) who took out his mandolin and started playing and...