Tommy seems to be on a mandolinist collaboration thing lately. This is nothing but beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEbEBId9CQ
Tommy seems to be on a mandolinist collaboration thing lately. This is nothing but beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEbEBId9CQ
This is my arrangement of “Geduld! Wenn mich falsche Zungen stechen”, No.41 from the the St Matthew Passion (“Matthäus-Passion”) (BWV 244) by Johann Sebastian Bach, introduction to the aria:
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The tenor is the first guitar I was introduced to, because of a friend, but I bought and learned a bit on six string guitars as follow up. They never really took hold of me, and I am selling them...
All hail August 5! If we could go back in time we'd share some music with these folks. Guessing likker may have been involved! This would have occurred less than an mile from Cafe headquarters, maybe...
I thought that I would give this deceivingly difficult piece another go. The first time I posted it (last September), I wasn't too pleased with the mix. So here we go again! Please enjoy!
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Hey, it's a just few notes here and there, right? Yeah right...This was deceivingly difficult to play for me. A true tongue twister for my fingers! After literally 40+ takes, this is what I got. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhr2D6AZSy4
Just received via email, worth sharing for those of you not members, minus a few FAQs at end as it ran long what is allowed here.
At their November meeting, the CMSA board discussed the need to...
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...
Hello! I just posted a new video yesterday playing the Adagio from Bach's G Minor Sonata. I will be trying to post a video every month of a new Bach piece that I've been working on. Enjoy this...
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...
Mandocello fans, here it is!
A few months ago, I started a quest for solo music composed specifically on the mandocello to present at the CMSA Convention. No transcriptions, no bowed cello suites,...
I just finished building an experimental mandola.
I was worried… this whole instrument was an experiment, in two major respects:
1) I built an exponential horn into the internal body structure...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4YAh1XbDn0
I couldn't get the percussive mutes of the intro in the tab without it looking confusing and messy so I left them out. It shouldn't be too hard to...
For the perennially displeased you can rectify the selection process by paying IBMA's membership fee so you can add your vote. It's selection by members, not an ad hoc committee pondering the ad...
I've just published my new tunebook, May Frost: 64 Original Mandolin Tunes (with harmony parts and guitar chords) and it's available as a free download from my Mandotopia site.
Here's the link:...
Interesting band from Buenos Aires using bluegrass instruments to play Latin music.
I don't know them but like this video and heard from a Baltimore old time and bluegrass email I subscribe to.
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short history on this man. years ago I was in black mountain, nc. this was long before I ever attempted to make musical notes on anything. black mountain, nc is a mountain top very small town. 2...
I made a kinda/sorta variant of that for myself, maybe other people will find it useful as well. Printable PDF file, has the usual MandolinCafe black preview but it's a normal file:
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The...
Just a heads up for folks who shop at John and Sean Ramsey’s business in Colorado Springs, CO.
Apparently they’ve changed the name of their store to Avenue Guitars and have moved to Manitou...
As Mike said, it is required to get through customs.. These are being shipped to the Amazon warehouse, directly from China. This makes it easy to catch. The bigger problem comes, when there is an...
Thanks to each and every one of you.
You made me laugh.
You made me smile.
A couple of times you made me cry.
You guided me.
You taught me.
You made me look at life in a different light. ...
Since he’s not around to defend his actions (or deny them) I don’t see any point in speaking ill of the dead. His old band members and those who knew him cansay what they please, I agree with Allen,...
About two years ago in a fit of downsizing I foolishly sold this unique and wonderful Girouard A5, lacquered redwood over spectacular quilted maple:
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These pieces of playable art come and...
I enjoy bluegrass but don't play it. I like to play other things. This may be a skill issue but, bluegrass isn't something I'm particularly motivated to play (at the moment).
Jamie