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I'll be there and I'll be doing at least some of the choro stuff for sure. See you there Al...

-David

I don't have the material with me at the moment but I am pretty sure he does have a number of empty rhythm tracks, in a couple of keys with different progressions I think, at the very end of the...

I grew up in southern Missouri, listening to Cardinals games on the radio on my grandparent's farm. Still a fan of the Redbirds though I haven't lived there in 30+ years. Nice picture!

David

I always recommend the Alfred mandolin series in 3 volumes (Beginning, Intermediate, and Mastering) by Greg Horne (actually the last volume is by Wayne Fugate). Very, very useful and a variety of...

Obrigado Carlos!

Speaking of Waldir Azevedo and "Pedacinho do Céu", here is a version of this tune that I ran across recently that I really like.

-David

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The tune is "Bistro Fada" by Stephane Wrembel. There is a guitar version (with standard notation and guitar tab) in the current issue of "Flatpicking Guitar". I've never seen it written out in mando...

I was there for that as well and that was so very nice playing indeed... including a nice version of Whiskey Before Breakfast too...

-Davud

That was pretty cool indeed.... I could only catch the last half of it so I am definitely looking forward to checking it out online later.

David

I like the Mair book as well though it is probably not suited for a beginner as the level gets pretty high pretty quickly. I'm not a beginner by any stretch but I picked it up as a non-reader and...

This is a great CD! I got it from John a few weeks ago when he was doing some mandolin workshops here in Seattle at Dusty Strings. There are a bunch of great cuts on it but I'd have to say that my...

Sometimes it is fun to be a hip cornball (in my opinion), I have been known to play the B-part as Bm7-Em7-A7-Bm7 Bm7-Em7-A7-D6 just to see if anyone is paying attention...

David

Check out the errata for the book at http://jazzmando.com/errata_.shtml -- the Fm9 error is listed there among others!

-David

The Fm9 is definitely wrong on that page as well. The Fm9 on that page is the ii chord in that context; key of Eb but is indeed spelled 2-3-3-3 (A-F-C-G) and should be 1-3-3-3 (Ab-F-C-G).

David

Definitely a typo --- that should be C6/9 and not C6/7 (never heard of a 6/7 chord anyway which doesn't mean such a thing doesn't exist of course).

-David

I was able to download the original links (from the publisher) on an iPhone via Safari and it worked fine. I needed the Winzip app to unzip them though. It took a relatively long time -- even on a...

I have had no problems getting the files to download. I've used Chrome and Firefox (both worked) via Linux (and a Windoze machine) for both the original links (as listed in the book) and the newer...

The book "Hal Leonard Mandolin Method" by Rich DelGrosso is very good too, and a mixture of styles. There is some tab at the very beginning to help with fingering but after that all of the music is...

Very nice Bruce, thanks for sharing!

-David

I can't say I understand exactly this works or is going to work either. But as far as I can tell, this is entirely free. It does sound like you are expected to do some homework and submit some audio...

This looks like it could potentially be of interest to some here.....

Gary Burton is teaching a free course on Improvisation from Berkeley College of Music on Coursera:
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I was at the show as well. Tim plays an Arrow mandolin (by Paul Lestock) and Jack plays a Bentrup (unless my memory is playing tricks on me again). Great show! They're going to be at Wintergrass this...

As a followup to Don's lovely version check this out:





-David

Check out the second half of this Austin City Limits from 1980 with Johnny Gimble, Tiny Moore, and Jethro Burns for various combinations of electric and acoustic mando jazz.



-David

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This site has great play-along videos for a large number of tunes. http://www.grilles-manouches.net/index.php/grilles-manouches. It is in French but it shouldn't matter much if you don't read French....

This show is now available online, for a small fee as Al mentioned, and wow! is it worth it. Very good quality! Highly recommended... I just started watching it 10 minutes ago and I have an idea I...