And these two fine Russian players:
Elena Zabavskaya and Ekaterina Mochalova:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ8i2p4k4dI
A young German talent:
Anna Bagger:...
And these two fine Russian players:
Elena Zabavskaya and Ekaterina Mochalova:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ8i2p4k4dI
A young German talent:
Anna Bagger:...
You mention only Avi Avital as a well known performer, so I don't know what other classical mandolin players you already know.
Three performers of J.S.Bach:
-Caterina Lichtenberg picking her...
I also love this tune.
There are versions in 6/8 and in 3/4.
I had played it as a slow waltz in A.
If I remember right, I had tried to do the tremolo in groups of six:
...
I have two tenor guitars: a Blueridge BR 40-T and a Kala tenor guitar.
As much as I like the Blueridge for playing chords in our little acoustic trio, it doesn't inspire me much to play melodies on...
Back in 2009, I had Don Paine build me a Pomeroy A2 mandolin.
It has become one of my favorite instruments.
I especially like the sound it has with flatwound strings.
...
And here is Mike Compton (among others) playing the Tombigbee Waltz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMcjk0m_3fM
Anna Maria Bagger is an able young classical mandolin player.
She has recorded lots of videos for edition 49.
Her latest video is a duet with Evita Schlender:
...
Another interesting site concerning contemporary mandolin compositions might be the German Pan-Verlag:
https://pan-verlag.com/shop/noten/instrumentalmusik-mandoline/
They print classics such as...
At least, he plays Bach with that grip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-OSqdspmPs
By the way: Caterina Lichtenberg also has a non-standard pick-grip
She doesn't plant her pinky, but her index...
Got to revive this thread I started almost 2 years ago: I bought the book, but I never managed to play something from it, so it ended up in a pile of unused sheet music books.;)
But lately it was...
Fretting notes with the thumb is a common balalaika technique. It is taught in Mel Bay's balalaika method.
She also uses that technique a lot on the domra. So, probably, that's a common domra...
Very interesting version for 2 melody instruments, nicely performed.
Thanks for the link to the score. I really like this Pavane, I found an easy version in a book with easy guitar duets.
It leaves...
There seem to be several ideas of what a good classical tone is:
Most classical players prefer a rather brilliant sound, like that of the Embergher Alison Stephens played:
...
Here in Germany, TIs are not that expensive. And you can buy similar strings by Pyramid, Fisoma and Optima for even less money. I like them on all my mandolins.
Here's how they sound on my Breedlove...
I have a Pomeroy A 2 that I really like. I can't tell you, how it compares soundwise to old Gibsons or Old Waves, but strung with flatwound strings, it sounds fine to my ears:...
Es, es, es und es is indeed very well known in Germany. It was even included in the recorder method book, I had to use as a child. But I had no idea what the lyrics were about at that time. It's a...
I really like this song so I searched for sheet music that I could play in a simple mandolin/guitar setting.
I found a melody with guitar chords version at abcnotation com:...
Beautiful song, nicely played!
The same goes for the Minuet from Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: the notes with the staccato dot above them are played non-tremolo, the others are played tremolo:
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In the previous examples, all the notes of the same value were played in the same fashion.
But it is possible to play a quarter note tremoloed in one place and non-tremolo in another.
In my version...
I never tried anything like Chord-Melody on my mandolin, but I try to play some on my CGDA-tuned instruments.
There's a Mel Bay book called Tenor Banjo Melody Chord Playing System. ...
Very nice! I guess, I like the second tempo best.
The slow version also sounds fine.
The last one seems a bit hurried.
Hal Leonard's Mandolin Play Along Volume 7 Italian Classics has sheet music and tabs of tunes like Santa Lucia, O Sole Mio, Vieni sul Mar and others....
Today's tremolo-practice-tune is pretty straight forward.
It is fast enough to play quarter notes non-tremolo and use sixteenth notes to suggest a tremolo for 2-beat or 4-beat-notes.
Moscow Nights...
I agree, that they sound great when strummed. But I have mine tuned CDGA.
I use it for song accompaniment in our little acoustic trio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkC73rQl_7Y
So long, no one...