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    Re: Vibrações - Jacob do Bandolim

    AndyC who used to post regularly here put up this set of backing tracks on SoundCloud back in 2015. I think he played all instruments. He was quite diffident about the tracks at the time - I'm no...
  2. Thread: Ear Train

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    Re: Ear Train

    I totally endorse what TX2Ak just said and wish I could have expressed it as concisely and courteously. I had been trying to frame a reply about singing but found it too difficult to express - as in...
  3. Re: John McGann transcriptions - Billie's Bounce and St. Thomas

    You can download MuseScore free at https://musescore.org/en/download

    It’s worth noting that while MuseScore is free and open source on MuseScore.org it is subsidised / monetised by its sister...
  4. Re: John McGann transcriptions - Billie's Bounce and St. Thomas

    There's a lot of good stuff to work on there. It will take me a lot of practice before I am able to put up any kind of half-way decent attempt.

    Hope you don't mind, Perry, but I had to put them...
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    Joe Henderson is said to have written this tune when he was 15 (!!!!!!!). The arrangement you have here is really nice.

    I've been trying to learn it on tenor sax (Joe's axe) and on that instrument...
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    Re: Tips for playing chords by ear

    Two suggestions:

    First there is something to be said for ear training exercises such as on this website - https://tonedear.com/ear-training/chord-identification

    Second, and probably more...
  7. Thread: Mando vibro?

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    Re: Mando vibro?

    gxzKoTIm_I0&t=463s

    Having difficulty embedding this so here's the link to Tim Connell

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxzKoTIm_I0&t=463s

    You so often see it argued that vibrato is...
  8. No Mandolin content but extraordinarily beautiful and instructive

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    I came across this the yesterday and remembered a discussion with a guitarist friend about the importance of getting the fingertips in exactly the right spot re the fret. Apart from...
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    Re: Notation or ABC for Minor Swing

    Do a Google search for “the Django Fakebook”. The music is out of copyright and published free online by the University of Chicago. It’s a goldmine of tunes. Standard Notation not Tab.

    You can...
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    Re: Right hand exericises

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/146742-Right-Hand-Practice-Workbook-Mando-Mike

    The book mentioned in this thread is really good
  11. Re: Flattened 3rd and Flattened 7th. Why use one over the other?

    Here's a few suggestions to the specific original question. These are perhaps more relevant to the jazzier directions in the blues - but no harm in that.

    So, talking about 12 bar blues here, the...
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    Re: Song For My Father (slow) 100 bpm, vocal

    I really like this. Fantastic singer, relaxed but steady bass and particularly the contrast between the timbres of the mandolin and the guitar playing in much the same register.

    Also nice to hear...
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    Re: October jazz tune of he month - Marie

    https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/marie-samba-224-x-4-20102018-1622-1

    Here's an alternative approach - coda courtesy of Leonard Bernstein
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    Re: A friend needs a Lefty fiddle tune book

    TAB is genuinely ambidextrous - it does not change because - as UKrobbiej says - the stringing is normally inverted on left handed instruments. I think Jimi Hendrix - who was left-handed - played a...
  15. Re: August Jazz TOM: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea-160-15082018-1526

    I've gone for the Deep Blue Sea - coda courtesy of Charles Trenet. Come on in the water's lovely!
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    Re: Covered 2nd strings

    As I understand it flat wound strings are wound with a kind of thin flat tape - bass guitars are often strung this way. Flat tops are wound with round wire which is ground down to make the surface...
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    Re: July Jazz tune of the month: Yardbird Suite

    Thanks for the kind words Larry. Great swing to yours!
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    Re: July Jazz tune of the month: Yardbird Suite

    Here's my attempt :

    https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/yardbird-suite-160-14072018-1555
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    Re: June Jazz tune of the month: Swing 42

    This is way the most challenging and way the most fun of the Jazz tunes of the month so far.

    So many new challenges - for example I find myself more frequently looking at what my right hand is...
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    Re: May Jazz tune of the month: Body and Soul

    Here's my attempt :-

    https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/body-soul-75bpm-19052018-1217
  21. Re: April Jazz tune of the month: What is This Thing Called Love?

    /user185853048/what-is-this-thing-called-love-swing-c07042018-1836

    I would have preferred if Alex Heflin or David Brown or Pete Martin or somebody - any body - who can actually play, has talent,...
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    Re: March Jazz tune of the month: Soft Winds

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    This tune is far more challenging than it appears at first or second hearing - the way the phrase moves back and forth on and off the beat - the...
  23. Thread: Suspone

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    Re: Suspone

    Oh wow! that's impressive.

    But please Pete Martin don't put it up for the April tune of the month - at least not April 2018.
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    Poll: Re: Poll: March Jazz tune of the month

    Soft wind - Lionel Hampton on vibes - Charlie Christian on guitar. mmmm!

    I've been meaning to throw the following out there for a while -

    Any other mandolin players find the vibes interesting...
  25. Re: February Jazz tune of the month: There Will Never Be Another

    https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/split-kick-x-4-14022018-1827

    To quote Voltaire

    " it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

    So once again I'll attempt to...
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