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Our Sept. 4, 2020 show.
Updated Sep-08-2020 at 7:22am by Mandolin Cafe (correcting embed code)
I've been working up a version of "Goin' Across the Sea" for the Song of the Week Mandolin Cafe social group. It looks as if the tune is going to lose to a Bob Marley song in the voting. (!) However, this is the one I'm working up. I've found a couple of contemporary versions in B. I started to score John Reishman's excellent (of course) version, in C. But I stumbled onto this Bill Monroe version this morning, in A, and this clearly does it for me. The audio is weak so you'll have to turn ...
I’m just playing around. I forgot there was a blog feature here. I’m going to try to include a video of me tonight playing my latest MAS addition. See if this works. Hey, it does! Huzzah!
Here goes:
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I'm trying to lift myself up from the abyss of ignorance and learn some chord theory. Spend the night working on Peter Martin's Texas style breakdown progression in A. Mama mia!
OK, does this work? How does it work? Does it matter if it works? Do I need yet another place to express opinions and string together words? Probably not. So what? So, today I'm thinking about how I really need to learn chord theory. It's a complete void in my musical tool kit. I'm going to do it because I can't face not doing it any longer. I've hit a brick wall with certain aspects of my playing, and the only possible solutions are to stop where I am or roll up ...