AndyC who used to post regularly here put up this set of backing tracks on SoundCloud back in 2015. I think he played all instruments. He was quite diffident about the tracks at the time - I'm no...
AndyC who used to post regularly here put up this set of backing tracks on SoundCloud back in 2015. I think he played all instruments. He was quite diffident about the tracks at the time - I'm no...
I totally endorse what TX2Ak just said and wish I could have expressed it as concisely and courteously. I had been trying to frame a reply about singing but found it too difficult to express - as in...
You can download MuseScore free at https://musescore.org/en/download
It’s worth noting that while MuseScore is free and open source on MuseScore.org it is subsidised / monetised by its sister...
There's a lot of good stuff to work on there. It will take me a lot of practice before I am able to put up any kind of half-way decent attempt.
Hope you don't mind, Perry, but I had to put them...
Joe Henderson is said to have written this tune when he was 15 (!!!!!!!). The arrangement you have here is really nice.
I've been trying to learn it on tenor sax (Joe's axe) and on that instrument...
Two suggestions:
First there is something to be said for ear training exercises such as on this website - https://tonedear.com/ear-training/chord-identification
Second, and probably more...
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Having difficulty embedding this so here's the link to Tim Connell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxzKoTIm_I0&t=463s
You so often see it argued that vibrato is...
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I came across this the yesterday and remembered a discussion with a guitarist friend about the importance of getting the fingertips in exactly the right spot re the fret. Apart from...
Do a Google search for “the Django Fakebook”. The music is out of copyright and published free online by the University of Chicago. It’s a goldmine of tunes. Standard Notation not Tab.
You can...
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/146742-Right-Hand-Practice-Workbook-Mando-Mike
The book mentioned in this thread is really good
Here's a few suggestions to the specific original question. These are perhaps more relevant to the jazzier directions in the blues - but no harm in that.
So, talking about 12 bar blues here, the...
I really like this. Fantastic singer, relaxed but steady bass and particularly the contrast between the timbres of the mandolin and the guitar playing in much the same register.
Also nice to hear...
https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/marie-samba-224-x-4-20102018-1622-1
Here's an alternative approach - coda courtesy of Leonard Bernstein
TAB is genuinely ambidextrous - it does not change because - as UKrobbiej says - the stringing is normally inverted on left handed instruments. I think Jimi Hendrix - who was left-handed - played a...
https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea-160-15082018-1526
I've gone for the Deep Blue Sea - coda courtesy of Charles Trenet. Come on in the water's lovely!
As I understand it flat wound strings are wound with a kind of thin flat tape - bass guitars are often strung this way. Flat tops are wound with round wire which is ground down to make the surface...
Thanks for the kind words Larry. Great swing to yours!
Here's my attempt :
https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/yardbird-suite-160-14072018-1555
This is way the most challenging and way the most fun of the Jazz tunes of the month so far.
So many new challenges - for example I find myself more frequently looking at what my right hand is...
Here's my attempt :-
https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/body-soul-75bpm-19052018-1217
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I would have preferred if Alex Heflin or David Brown or Pete Martin or somebody - any body - who can actually play, has talent,...
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This tune is far more challenging than it appears at first or second hearing - the way the phrase moves back and forth on and off the beat - the...
Oh wow! that's impressive.
But please Pete Martin don't put it up for the April tune of the month - at least not April 2018.
Soft wind - Lionel Hampton on vibes - Charlie Christian on guitar. mmmm!
I've been meaning to throw the following out there for a while -
Any other mandolin players find the vibes interesting...
https://soundcloud.com/user185853048/split-kick-x-4-14022018-1827
To quote Voltaire
" it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."
So once again I'll attempt to...