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Following on from our previous discussions, I have just recorded two more German folk songs, both arranged as a trio of mandolin, mandocello and tenor guitar based on harmonies from an old children's...

We don't very often live up to the "Medieval, Renaissance" part of this sub-forum, so here is a polyphonic tudor composition.

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): "Hear The Song And Prayer"

This is a...

Nice to see this great tune being revived here again. Here is a version I posted back in 2010, with my late accordion partner Derek MacDonald (no relation of Hector's, he assured me).

The...

Here is Jenna Reid playing Hector The Hero, accompanied by myself on octave mandolin. Key of A.


https://youtu.be/Woqsh3WqtJ0?t=15

excellent music and excellent mandolin playing Crisscross...Martin Jonas, excellent video as always...:)

Some years ago, I found some very nice harmonies for Hector The Hero on a Japanese website:

https://celtnofue.com/media/files/score/Hector_the_hero.pdf

(PDF also attached)

This setting in G...

"Alas, Trekel closed for good ..."

The bricks and mortar store in Hamburg, Germany, closed. But not Trekel, the music publishing company, and my understanding is in addition to Trekel...

Classical players vary in their choice of picks. It is true that some prefer thinner and pointier picks but there is not universal pick just as there is not one kind of mandolin that classical...

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.

Here is the Carthorse Rag - the last piece in the book - played with mandola (octave mandolin) and guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y-sXJ_zSCM

Chris Acquavella has two very useful repertoire lists on his website, one Baroque/Classical, the other Romantic/contemporary:
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Here is my version of Face in the Crowd:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspfsGOR9vo

The guitar part ist good to play, the mandolin part is easy and a good exercise for legato playing.

Ignazio Bitelli (1916): "Dolci carezze" - Gavotta
In: "Il Mandolino", 30 July 1916

This is an Italian gavotte for mandolin (two mandolins and guitar), written in 1916 and published in "Il...

Ferdinando Francia (d. 1904): "Bocca profumata" - Valzer, Op. 192
Published in "Il Mandolino", 30 August 1897

This is a lovely Italian waltz for two mandolins and guitar, written by Ferdinando...

Enchanted Castle
A thoughtful, mellow piece - play with sensitivity and expression


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR2dJ03KhdM

I have now made ca. 10 videos from this book - more will follow. The pieces are very short - mostly just one minute - so it might be better to play the pieces two or more times.

A very easy blues...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6jGRunX9s8


One of my favorite classical guitar pieces. Ms. Skliar has done what I think is a very nice mandolin arrangement, and the transcription -- no...

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Pavane (Op. 50, 1887)

This is an arrangement of Fauré's Pavane as a duet of two mandolins, based on various Musescore duet arrangements of the piece, mainly this one by...

Jim - do you know if it is mandolin tabulature or musical notation?

That’s a tough comparison. My Poe looks better; of course, it was designed as a tribute to the Gibson Alrite. For me, it also plays better, but then I told Andy my preferences for neck profile,...

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It's a great tune! Nigel Gatherer transcribed it a few years ago. His transcription is at thesession.org:

https://thesession.org/tunes/12341

I made my own mandolin recording based on Nigel's...

If anyone wants to just play some chord melodies without struggling through complicated theory I recommend "Just for Fun - Swing Jazz Mandolin" published by Alfred. These are great arrangements of...

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen (Op. 15, 1838)
7. Träumerei (Reverie)

A. 55bpm - 0.00
B. 70 bpm - 2:29
C: 100 bpm - 4:25

This is one of Schumann's most famous piano pieces. I have played it...

I would add this link to the playing of one of the Italian American mandolin masters Matteo Casserino, originally from Sicily. He played in various cafes in San Francisco in the 1970s through the...