Steve Lavelle
Jan-26-2018, 8:34pm
These days i mostly play live and don't record much, but I once spent time trying to write and record. My brother created a chord progression he called "3 Minor Faults" (an Em waltz) that I then added a mandolin and a banjo part to. I would appreciate appraisals of the tune, my playing, and the recording quality.
https://soundcloud.com/steve-lavelle-1/3-minor-faults
There is another overly produced tune with a traditional sounding melody at the start that I've always wondered if I stole from something that's been around forever. I started playing this on the first bowl back mandolin I ever picked up over 40 years ago. This version is a recording using my Flatiron and mashes up that tune with a raga-like middle section employing too many tracks of guitars creating a bit of a sonic mess. I'm mostly curious about whether I stole that mandolin part and from where.
https://soundcloud.com/steve-lavelle-1/steves-reel
https://soundcloud.com/steve-lavelle-1/3-minor-faults
There is another overly produced tune with a traditional sounding melody at the start that I've always wondered if I stole from something that's been around forever. I started playing this on the first bowl back mandolin I ever picked up over 40 years ago. This version is a recording using my Flatiron and mashes up that tune with a raga-like middle section employing too many tracks of guitars creating a bit of a sonic mess. I'm mostly curious about whether I stole that mandolin part and from where.
https://soundcloud.com/steve-lavelle-1/steves-reel