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My wife chose “Give me Your Hand” which was very appropriate, since we met on the dance floor. Now it’s one of the tunes I play it on mandolin. And you can’t go wrong with O’Carolan - lots of...

That is a classic choice. There's also the Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major which would be a good option for the recessional.

Also other option would be the trumpet tunes or...

Learning the piano keyboard, even just as a music theory learning tool, is very useful. One advantage over the mandolin fingerboard is that each discrete pitch has only a single place to play them....

I spent alot of time with a tuner just playing something I knew and learning the fretboard as I did that. Playing twinkle twinkle little star will take you a long way.

Another good suggestion is...

“Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement”

I must be an arranging master by now! :mandosmiley::mandosmiley::mandosmiley:

https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2024/03/swamp-dogg-announces-new-album-blackgrass-from-west-virginia-to-125th-st/

"Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music, but it...

gah! honey, I shrunk Mike Marshall! that's a beastly machine with amazing tone. pete, thanks for posting it!

With the number of views, I suspect this hasn’t been posted on the Café forum before, with Mike Marshall playing a Berg 10 string mandocello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZWwrL-2uS8

BTW I no...

Emphatic YES!!

Plus, it took some time to learn what "holding the pick loosely" is supposed to feel like, allowing it to angle down on the upstrokes while still not, ya know, flying across the...

Wood will always gets to EMC which depends on RH of air around it. Thermally processed wood has slightly lower EMC and has generally better dimensional stability which was the main argument for doing...

That’s sound advice, I haven’t had an opportunity to play a Red Diamond. But still, I’d be more likely to lay the success of one at the feet of Dan himself; that is, to Macrostie’s lutherie skills...

This is one of my warm up exercises, recorded during hybrid-style-folksongs sessions in March 6, 2020.

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Toomas Rannu
Flat-backed mandolin, crafted by Viljar Kuusk in 2008 (Tallinn,...

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...

Continuing the open ended 'kind of random' theme:

Often capo's are used (in Trad Irish at least) to get a certain voicing. Sometimes accompaniment is done with two guitars, one with a capo, the...

if you look at very early Gregorian Chant notation there is no key indication, we've come full circle in the 20th century when Arnold Schoenberg proposed the 12 tone system, there are 12 tones - do...

Despite the title, I believe his real issue is with a cumbersome software as he explains above. Obviously the original post is rather confusing, he explains his real issue later.

Good explanation...

After reading both posts, I'm not quite sure what you're asking!

If it's "Nashville Numbering" system, a single number by itself means that's the chord that is played for the entire measure. The...

Individual capacity for alcohol varies and so do the effects. So it's not a one-size-fits all kind of thing. I spent some time as a bartender when I was in college, and my experience was that your...

Um, it was mentioned in the first post by the OP.

Copper Kettle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGlt4W4AXRU

Calum McIlroy, the winner of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2024, performs G Iomain na Gamhna for crowds in Glasgow’s


https://youtu.be/JFTqiVEjK-Q?feature=shared

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My apologies if someone has already mentioned this on the board somewhere but I wanted to post a link as I just discovered it last night. Super excited to see this one. For those of you who have...

Carter's Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0smNmyE8M

I just wanted to give a shout out for DataNick who has this on Bluegrasstoday:

https://bluegrasstoday.com/california-report-san-diego-mandolinist-b-k-nick-nicholson/

I miss his quality posts...

Not much is “strictly” DUDUDU in alternate picking style; the OP has still not made clear what he means about “strict”. I use alternate picking a great deal of the time. Meaning down strokes on the...