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Here’s one of the old tunes my dad (RIP) taught me on guitar as a boy.

https://youtu.be/C4zBWKSJ1Yg?si=h-5-5b4smWBggkH1

https://youtu.be/mEoz2N5uA6Q?feature=shared

I wasn't intending to make a video to post here, however I made a video for my Facebook friends for St. Paddy's Day. It turned out well so I put it on Youtube, and so maybe I should post it here...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H27FChhSi8&t=85s

Sadly, this is one of those tunes that is probably getting a bit tired and worn, but only because it's one of the most rocking reels ever written. If Led Zeppelin would have composed a reel, this...

Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...

The Crown at Portpatrick.
It’s woodshed time, with a lovely mazurka written by Nigel Gatherer. (Portpatrick is in beautiful Scotland).

Here it’s 200 feet below the snow line near a little village...

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...

Just in case you're hungry...

https://youtu.be/OmSFNptUi24?si=G1trnJAaUT0lVbJX

Here's a classic Mike McGoldrick tune in 7/8 time.
I've included some Bulgarian paintings which I hope you will find more interesting than looking at me playing the tune!!! :))

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Playing around with Blair Atholl (still no smiling):

https://youtu.be/Z8xE84PiXQ0

Oh god, MAS is real. I somehow have three of them now. I went into my local music shop yesterday to see if they could make me a new nut for my electric, and ended up taking about five mandos off the...

https://youtu.be/1TKa_8rsy7E?si=IZHlb0dZxumjMqCR

Fun little tune I made up for learning riffs in G. Enjoy :mandosmiley:

Been working on Swallowtail Jig for the past couple of weeks, decided to record myself... couple of clunkers, and absolutely no smiling, and I speed up a little bit:

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The mandolin is back from the doctor and she sounds good. I just gotta learn to play now. Honestly this is the first time I've had her sound in tune (though the new strings are still settling in)
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I've amassed close to a dozen different Blue Chip picks over the years. My kids, and others, seem to always want to know what to get me for Xmas and my birthday. I just provide a link to a wish...

When you post it after 12th Night, you can just call it "Greensleeves," then you don't have to apologize for being late!

I think you need to spend at least some time every practice playing slower than 50% of normal speed. You don't just practice this way, but you do need to devote a decent percent of your practice to...

Here are a couple of videos that show both...

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Kind of new here, and a beginner mandolin player. I am self taught with a few chords to get by, so as to add color to some bar gigs we do..,

This is from a few years back, but I’m not much better!...

This is Mando. It is the way.

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This will probably be my last Christmas-related recording for the year. Here's a frantic version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, performed on my Weber octave mandolin.

Thanks for listening and...

https://youtu.be/EnLgww2w79c?si=1K9ZSMeVnoy9ymNE

A set of two 2/4 Scottish marches, played on mandolin and octave with guitar backing.
Have a great Christmas, everyone!

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A somewhat labyrinthine reel set with a faint hint at Christmas.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8coLcSxx8