When you practice do you stop and “correct” any clams you play? DON’T DO THAT! If you stop when you practice you’ll train yourself to stop when you play. Play through your errors, keeping the feel of...
When you practice do you stop and “correct” any clams you play? DON’T DO THAT! If you stop when you practice you’ll train yourself to stop when you play. Play through your errors, keeping the feel of...
Tony Williamson put this video together for a seller who had no experience shipping a valuable instrument. We thought it was well done and had great information that it should be available to all for...
Read and re-read Jill's response (#19) and Beanzy's (#21). Enda Scahill has some mandolin material on his site that you might want to check out.
Have fun with it and enjoy your trip!
From that list I'd probably only bother with;
Donnybrook fair
Banish misfortune
Fig for a kiss
Foxhunter's
Going to the well for water
Ballydesmond polka
Toss the feathers
King of the...
Busy weekend. I've been taking note of everyone's excellent advice, but haven't had a chance to weigh in.
I'm in a learning environment, so there are mixed abilities among all the instruments,...
I want to urge the OP to read carefully Jill's post #17 in this thread. It is very well organized, well-written and full of good advice from someone who has been playing traditional Irish music and...
There are definitely loads of tunes that everyone knows but I agree with Joe Robinson- the tunes played at sessions are typically pretty specialized to that pub and players.
Welcome!
One bit of helpful advice: when in Ireland don't ever call a tune a song, unless it is.
Have fun! :)
This is a lovely Scottish slow air composed by Charles Grant, a 19th Century fiddler and composer from Morayshire.
My version is on octave, mandolin and guitar and based on an arrangement got from...
This is a James Scott Skinner fiddle composition I have adapted to octave mandolin and guitar. The Queen in the title is Victoria, not the recently departed Elizabeth, who passed away very near to...
Here's a tune I picked up from the guitar playing of Dónal Clancy on his album Close to Home. I decided to play the tune in D minor on the mandola and overdub an accompaniment part (also with the...
While I heartily agree, too stiff or too floppy picks won’t help with either of those. Gear is important, so setup is paramount. Then finding what works in your hands is the task, and that may...
Hey Aidan,
I just made a video of those jigs I did for you all those years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjWxcbB-QBU
We could public name over a dozen people on Facebook marketplace that will take you to the cleaners so to speak in a heartbeat and have been permanently banned from this site for engaging in that...
There are 23 used Collings mandolins for sale in the Classifieds this moment. I know some people freak out if you say use Advanced Search, but entering Collings in the search field here and asking it...
Happy to announce that my OM is complete. Here's the builder himself with a video he created a week before sending it across the pond -- certainly putting the instrument to better advantage than I...
Over the years there have been a few, they weren't made in large numbers. A quick scan got me these. There are more, some that were natural. They didn't make a lot of them but over the years they...
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Here's my new one :)
Love it!
Hi guys,
I’m keeping it. I’m working it out with the vendor and it will end up being a pretty sweet deal.
Just so you know, after they contacted me earlier in the week, they said that their...
I am going to order a Rogue with hopes they send me a Gilchrist
As some will know, Aidan Crossey has had some major health issues recently. Today he was taken into hospital for tests and possible surgery. (Not confidential information - he announced it on the...
Here we go…backup track is me on mandolin.
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=212028&d=1707334206
This is the cutting edge of sales these days. When someone orders something you send them the more expensive item “by mistake”.
This may seem a little harsh although I don’t mean it to be. You’ve gotten excellent advice so far. Your original post was nearly 7 weeks ago and you have yet to acquire a mandolin. Time to fish...
This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.
It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRrR8j58ZA