This is a tune which I recorded on my Highland Mandolin album in 1988. It is called Walter Douglas MBE, written by Donald MacLeod.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu89OhX78vY
This is a tune which I recorded on my Highland Mandolin album in 1988. It is called Walter Douglas MBE, written by Donald MacLeod.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu89OhX78vY
for Feb 2021 MandoMike has posted a free monthly lesson for beginner and advanced players on 12 bar blues.
while there, subscribe to his youtube channel as he needs 50 to reach 1K.
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Free tunes and learning resources available at
www.thecelticmandolin.co.uk
Audio practice files and PDFs with parts for harmonies, bouzoukis and guitarists.
John
I came across this nice Saraband for Lyra-Viol while slowly reading my way through The Consort Music of William Lawes by John Cunningham, Boydell Press, 2010. I adapted the transcription in the book...
Free PDF Tunebook (Volume Five)
It has taken a few years, but Volume 5 is now out! This free PDF book (as well as volumes 1-4) can now be accessed from
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Just me, my 10 string Sobell mandolin and my firebowl a little after 9.30 tonight. The tune is Mull Of The Mountains.
https://www.facebook.com/daggergordon/videos/612764313009387/
This is a Bulgarian piece which I learned in Crete last year. I went for a week long seminar at Labyrinth Music Workshop in Houdetsi with a Spanish musician called Efren Lopez, of whom I am a very...
Might be of interest?
4 short interviews by Scots mandolin teacher/guru Nigel Gatherer with Simon Mayor, Laura Beth Salter, Barbara Pommerenke-Steele and myself on our influential mandolin...
Hi guys, I happened upon this video of Ritchie Blackmore with the most beautiful sounding octave mandola (octave mandolin). I don't know what make it is, but I love the sound, although I didn't like...
The first book is well known, I don't doubt, on this forum: "Exploring Classical Mandolin - Technique & Repertoire" which looks to be a justifiably-acclaimed volume, supplying a survey of the world...
Thanks for all your kind comments and encouragement. The final lesson is now up (lesson 4). It’s about (tremolo) double stops and techniques for trills. https://youtu.be/pVfDFXDYIyc
A few of you...
In the spirit of helping each other get through this period of increasing downtime and decreasing income, the pdf's at Mando Scales are now free.
(And, if you get a few down enough that you want...
A couple of pipe marches in the kitchen with my son Colin,with two Stefan Sobell instruments from the 80's.
https://www.facebook.com/daggergordon/videos/232041934736841/?t=9
Greetings from Australia!
I thought it a good time to make some instructional videos about tremolo. Here is the first one.
https://youtu.be/TrSLeM3cYd0
Stay safe, stay home and play mandolin ...
Here's a tune I wrote quite recently, played during a break from the lambing.
https://www.facebook.com/daggergordon/videos/221862302252890/?t=0