Recordings and performances of acoustic mandolin with drums and amplified bass cause a bit of strain in my head. I saw Hamilton de Holanda live. It was quite loud, but his 10-string was as loud as...
Recordings and performances of acoustic mandolin with drums and amplified bass cause a bit of strain in my head. I saw Hamilton de Holanda live. It was quite loud, but his 10-string was as loud as...
The key is friendly to the guitar, and my approach was to tune the mandolin up a half step. Playing in Bb/Eb allowed using the open D and G strings. Much easier.
Btw, my cousin has an act playing...
I remixed the audio to clean up the sound and get closer to the mandolin voice I intended. Now posted at my YouTube channel. I am pleased at being able to present good versions of tunes I wrote for a...
Because my sets are 10 strings I use the bulk strings from JustStrings. From their tone I think they are GHS. Sold as dozens, and not coiled but in sleeves, a 10-string set costs me about $6.
I...
This rolls tomorrow, Sunday 3/10, at 8pm Eastern. We revisit the tunes from my "Tailwind" album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMCZzERmgM
The service "Tidal", and premium services by Apple and Amazon pay the artist more than Spotify or YouTube. Artist might even earn a penny for a listen.
Thomastik's Dominant series would be my suggestion. Their Vision series is also good, but a bit brighter. They are not all-metal, but have a substantial fiber component to emulate gut strings.
Ian is on staff this summer for Choro Camp New England.
Traditional tube amps are fine with a piezo source. I played a gig with a guitar player that cranked his Deluxe Reverb. He switched to mandolin with Fishman bridge pickup, plugged straight into the...
The extended range of five courses, along with the richer tone and attack of doubled strings, means I can make a full sound in just a trio setting. Here I revisit a favorite Keith Jarrett tune from...
I remember a Boccherini string quartet in which the cello had to read soprano clef.
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I have been pining for a revival of the Symposium, and even thinking who I could corral here on the East Coast to sponsor one. It was a unique collection of all genres, and with experts in every...
Notating the chords, writing out specific voicings, is appropriate in classical period, and later music, to ensure the right balance of voices, e.g. which voice is on too, which bass note is used,...
A general-purpose library app the jazz guys like is iGigBook. I use TuneLbrarian, because it was offered along with the Portland volumes of fiddle tunes and the Barnes volumes of English Country...
I would also ask at Hogeye Music in Evanston. I bought a nice Weber there.
I have a Ryder EM45, but mainly use my Almuse. I converted the 45 to 10-string.
I bought this little inline phantom power unit, with rechargeable battery--
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/P1Pwr--xvive-audio-p1-portable-phantom-power-supply
Then you need an impedance...
I would move the E down an octave, for 3-2-4-2.
Bach re-voiced his chords for other versions of his pieces, like the Prelude to the E major Partita. If you are not playing it on a violin there is...
I have learned a lot from John Scofield recordings, expression, riffs, tunes, and using double stops as improvisation. A fun groove, plenty great help from the rhythm section.
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A better term is "difference tone", but most accurately, two pitches yield a lower-frequency tone that is the common denominator of their two frequencies. The effect is easily heard from electric...
I have this one. Works well with my 9th-gen iPad.
https://store.airturn.com/collections/bluetooth-pedals/products/airturn-bt500s-2-controller
My arrangement of the fine Paul McCartney song (maybe his best lyric). Jazz trio, electric mandolin, bass, drums.
https://soundcloud.com/twtunes/for-no-one
My take on "I Got Rhythm" changes. Recorded at Tonal Park studios, Takoma Park, MD. Same trio as the "Why Not?" session, Blake Meister on bass, Leland Nakamura on drums, and my 10-string electric...
It was a nice set, and cool to hear Donnie playing with different folks. Passim had a quality video stream and good sound. The Nugget two-point is still my fav, it is the right voice, and it mics...
Aside from the D#9 at bar 9, in All Blues, the F/D was referring to the two tonal centers in Georgia Brown, beginning in D and resolving to F.
As to a segue from that tune to All Blues, I would...