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On amazon.com you can have a free look into John McGann's book on octave mandolin, where he describes and discusses two fingering schemes. (To me even mandola is too difficult; at an exhibition I...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA9lpHnZbFU

Remembering Evelyn I made another video of one of her arrangements:
The Old Man and the Old Woman

Thanks Evelyn!

I have also never met Evelyn, but I've had extensive email exchanges with her over a period of many years. We had planned to meet up when she came to the UK earlier this year, but the logistics did...

I'm saddened to share the news that our friend, composer, harpist, accordionist, professor of neuroscience, and beautiful person Evelyn T. Castiglioni passed over to the other side early this...

Hi all - It's not nice to have to post this,but i've been diagnosed with a strong possibility of having lung cancer. As a life long non-smoker,that's pretty ironic.
It's not 100% certain yet,as i...

Well, these forums are privately owned so they can do what they want, I quit going to that forum years ago when I discovered the mandolin. I like that Mandolin Cafe keeps things pleasant here, I...

Czech carol "Three Kings" for Tenor Banjo, Tenor Guitar, Ukulele, Seagull Merlin, Tres Cubano, Plectrum Banjo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyfhPO2vBh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6Ej0vB5-0

I was trying to learn a run from a Monroe tune, I believe it's called Fair Play, and it just wasn't happening. I asked my pro viola playing daughter how she would finger it. Well she changed where I...

Trying again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS4kK48RAmk&feature=youtu.be

What a lot of this aspiration to something which would be better called "sight playing" … somebody is trained to play the "dots' on the paper without knowing what is going to come out sonically. ...

Here ye go: A great Tommy Coen reel, called "Christmas Eve", keeping with the season and all:

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I saw those photos this morning on FB - so gorgeous! Love that top and back combination!

I've just been playing mine for the past 3 hours (should've been out running errands but couldn't put the...

Well the stars aligned and 5 minutes before I was going to walk out the door this afternoon to head off to work the postman arrived with the mandolin!!! Left it to acclimate while I taught my last...

And it's finished! Max just sent these to me and it's as stunning as I imagined it would be! Can't wait to be able to play it!!!

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Thanks to all who participated in this discussion about tremolo, especially thanks to David, who recommended some method books, which devote a chapter or two to the explanation of tremolo and in...

I've reached a stage in my playing where I'm starting to put in ornamentation and simple variations, and trying to do so on the fly. It doesn't always come off but a great learning tool is to video...

Hey guy and gals,

I stumbled across this video this week and thought I would share. I hope you enjoy.
https://youtu.be/rCVpI4eXfcY

...trouble embedding again...sorry...

My favorite to play by far is Butch Baldassari's arrangement of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" off his Evergreen album and the Evergreen instruction book. The arrangement uses "double picking" (two...

Here is one I did last year. I don't think it started out as a holiday piece but it felt like one to me.
http://honketyhank.com/2017/12/21/2017-12-cross-of-savannagh/

My 2-cent contribution . . . .

(No refund requests, please!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlI-PEhx48

I like to take simple and familiar melodies as I mentioned in my first post, and figure them out, then try adding in doublestops or chords with the melody. It's a fun thing to do for your own...

Thanx for the compliment, David, especially meanful coming from a player of your caliber. Yes, what ever we have been taught we must continue to be diligent about our practice routines on our own....

from another thread

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/142471-Pick-Choice-and-Dynamics

ToyonPete said:

"I was in the same [ tremolo ] workshop with Takumi! He is an amazing player....

I don't think this resource has been mentioned here in awhile (could be wrong, but all I found was a post from 2011 when Jim Nikora announced the addition of Mike O'Connell's recordings to the...