It's been a while since my last Beatles arrangement. Here's what I came up with the other day for their song "In My Life."
I did all the past Beatles arrangements on mandola, but for some reason...
It's been a while since my last Beatles arrangement. Here's what I came up with the other day for their song "In My Life."
I did all the past Beatles arrangements on mandola, but for some reason...
Tommy seems to be on a mandolinist collaboration thing lately. This is nothing but beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEbEBId9CQ
I recently acquired a new (old) breedlove oval hole - I wasn't able to play it beforehand, but the seller assured me it was in mint condition. That is true, well, with the exception of the trashed...
Hey all,
I added another mandolin chord series post on 6th chords. This provides a few voicing ideas for this chord and also how you can use this to move to other chords.
You can see the...
204053 I’m trying to get the tenor guitar photo onto the thread but it doesn’t seem to want to work.
Gold Tone is carrying replacement Rigel style tailpieces again.
https://goldtonemusicgroup.com/goldtone/parts/mandrigel
OK - I've found a workaround that works...
In my bits box I found a cheap jewellers screwdriver set. I managed to pull the shaft of a suitably-sized screwdriver out of the handle part, and having...
I've seen both good and bad chord voicings in mandolin books.
Another tip -
An F#m7b5 (F# A C E ) can be thought of as an Am (A C E ) chord over an F# bass.
Or as an Am6 chord, too. (A C E...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L56JusoMsUE
I'm amused by things like this. Kenny G isn't my cup of tea but he's managed to do something the vast majority of us have not been able to accomplish even though we'd like to. Give him his due, he...
I mean Monroe took the part of the clarinet in the big band sound of the thirties and played it on the mandolin.
9oVVBLOXVYo
This is an instrumental arrangement of what was a very popular song for Tim O'Brien back in the day. He used an appealing, but unusual crosspicking style that I was never able to copy. It was in...
My friend Zuzana made a video for the song Rain.
I wish you a pleasant relaxation.
Jozef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXnhc0moOng&ab_channel=JozefScheiner
I have been making a small tenor to order (Christmas delivery) it is not much bigger than a Baritone ukulele but will be strung CGDA in steel.
20.5” scale pine soundboard is from a 200 year old...
Hello! The OP hasn't logged in for over a year, but I can give you my experience with these books (also bought because of this thread!) I play GDAE tenor instruments and these books were both helpful...
Music: Ernest Seitz arr: Ondrej Sarek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSe4YNh9rOs
Songs: The Streets of Laredo 00:00, Michael, Row The boat Ashore 00:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb9T_m2HUnA
Greetings mando peoples. Things have settled down sufficiently that I'm starting to touch mandolins again. I'm just outside of Old Town Alexandria, VA. After fits and starts, my shop is fully up...
The second of the Jimmy D'Aquisto inspired mandolins, This one of Sitka and Tasmanian Blackheart sassafras.
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A newly strung up mandola, 16.5" scale made from spruce and Australian blackwood. An audio sample and I apologise for my playing.
https://soundcloud.com/graham-mcdonald-4/legs-mazurka-1
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Cool what Sarah does with the octave in this clip. Oh, and Sierra and Molly are pretty good too!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuW7sNyz-hU
Hi,
They’re French and called the Melonious Quartet. If this link does not work the tune was called Gaucho. Perhaps my favourite video on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/sj_MpqS53mI
Regards,
Hey all,
Just checking to see how many of you either went to Rockygrass or viewed it via the Mandolin.com stream. I ended up shelling out the rather cheap $50 for the option to stream all 3 days...
This is a performance of Eden Macadam-Somer's lovely bluegrass/old-time-inspired, "Homeward Bound," by the New American Mandolin Ensemble (NAME) from a concert in Steenwijk, The Netherlands, in early...