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Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9PAPzXdmvM

Latest video from Ian Coury on 10 string Brazilian bandolim, recently recorded with his quartet at Berklee College of Music. I hope this gets him a...

The "last forever" part is something I consider a drawback, at least with respect to intonation. The tone does seem to last forever because the strings don't lose brightness the way PB roundwounds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BpXBpp0vQ

Another great version of this tune:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXqlJ0Zydc

-David

This is one of the all-time great tunes in ANY genre and it's cool to hear all these interpretations. Here's my band rehearsing the tune for our show a couple months back at the Freight & Salvage...

Great stuff! I just tried Andy's track for Bole Bole (it's one of the few I know from his list), and it works really well. Nice clean clear rhythmic playing, if a little more "backgroundy" than I...

This is another choro standard that doesn't need much introduction...:mandosmiley:
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Nice job, Jairo! And thanks for the transcription, Bill-- it's nice to see the 7-string bass licks included.

Here's a version of Um a Zero I did years ago when I had a quartet with some great...

One of the things that has caught my attention is that the choro, being perhaps the most famous and appreciated Latin American rhythm here in the forum, not many versions of the forum members are...

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Even though I have a Musescore Pro account, it took downloading the free version of Musescore 4 from Musescore.org to get the charts to play in the native format.

Thanks so much to Des for...

I took some correspondence lessons form John way back when. I recently came across the original sheets he mailed me. They were done in pencil. I decided to re-scan them and share here. Some nice...

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ICYMI: Yesterday's Mandolin Monday - Apitius Mandolin x 2:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORYOx3V2Ww

The voicing I would probably play for the A-6/9 and C-6/9 are 3 finger voicings on the G, D, and A strings playing the -3rd, 6th, and 9th. A-6/9 542, and C-6/9 875.

Yeah, I know, this isn't technically classical mandolin as it's a classical guitar study. I thought it would be a fun challenge on the mandolin, though. There's a few tricky spots as well as some...

This is magic.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKks9Ka2ZU

Hello folks - I bought a gig bag someone got with a 8 string bandolim. The branding on the case is "casa vitale". It's a little tight, especially on the neck, but it does close!

I like the...

No one compares to her. What a fabulous, thrilling, emotionally charged performance. One for the ages. Now she's for the ages. :(

Rest in peace, restless soul.

0-EF60neguk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQZu7izCpE

Here’s the Tim video embedded:


https://youtu.be/gxzKoTIm_I0

I would assume that most guitar players who use vibrato on guitar, who then pick up mandolin, would use some vibrato on mandolin. It would be natural, though adjustments would have to be made due to...

I put this up on Soundcloud in late June, and I see it's now been played three times. So I'm giving it a little nudge. Quartet number for mandolin, guitar, bass and drums, recorded around 2007. ...

Thanks for the reminder. I actually already had the book in a notation stockpile! :)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2lrpfx45n60h7tk/DjangoFakebook.pdf?dl=0

Dagger Gordon playing Here, there and everywhere by the Beatles.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQD-EAD02g&list=PLbqQKQRJF6TbAdYKCkRQ-hhgxTlA1TdCs&index=5