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I remember watching it a few years ago but cant find it anymore. Its a very well produced music video of a French (I believe) mandolin quartet performing an original piece. They sit around a small...

This is such a fun piece to play. I partnered with a guitarist friend to put together this quartet which turned out really nice.

Ryo was inspired to write the piece by the main character from the...

This was really fun to play. It was originally arranged for string quartet but it works really well on mandolins as well. I played the mandocello part on my mandola (GDAE) and down tuned it in post....

Thanks, I enjoy doing these! More to come soon.

I heard Stephen perform this with his trio "Volatinsky" a few weeks ago and fell in love with the piece. I bought the arrangement for string quartet but I don't have a mandocello so I ended up...

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Yeah everywhere but in the US a GDAE octave mandolin is called a mandola. I personally think octave mandolin is more clear since it distinguishes it from a CGDA...

I arranged this piece for mandola and two mandolins which I guess makes it more of a Triolo...

Enjoy!

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I recently got around to purchasing this Hopf mandolin that I have been borrowing from my teacher for a while so this is the first video I make with it.

The piece starts out classical but then...

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm playing a custom Lawrence K. Smith mandolin. He is a luthier here in Sydney who does amazing work. Part of the tone also comes from the Thomastik Infeld flatwound strings...

Thanks man, Tone Poems is one of the first mandolin albums I listened to. I bought the Mel Bay Tone Poems sheet music book and played it from that.

The second installment of the solo duets is a lovely waltz originally by David Grisman. While it appears simple, there are a lot of little grace notes and details in the sheet music that you have to...

Thanks Bill. I'm playing a newly acquired Suzuki MD-4 mandola and my trusty Custom Lawrence K. Smith F5 mandolin. Both have Thomastik Infeld strings on them.

This is the first installment in a series of mandolin/mandola solo-duets that I'm hoping to release semi-regularly (weekly/fortnightly). This piece was really easy to arrange from the solo piano...

I hope it's alright that I post this here.

Earlier this year I wrote three pieces for solo mandolin and posted videos of me playing them which I received great feedback on....

I recently posted videos of me playing three pieces ("Maelstrom", "An Odd Breeze", and "Lullaby for a Four-legged Spider") for solo mandolin that I composed earlier this year and received great...

Thank you very much. Unfortunately I don't have the money or the time at the moment. But in the future I would love to!

This piece was inspired by someone referring to my fingers as "spidery" as they are long and bony. I liked the image of a spider walking across the fret board so I wrote in some unusual fingering,...

Ah You're right Bertram. For some reason I have always thought of it as glissandro when it's actually glissando.

I wrote this piece because I love glissando (slides), it is such a cool sound, but not many pieces use it enough in my opinion. So I wrote this piece that is loaded with them (about 70) so I can get...

Thanks Bill, the mandolin was custom made for me by Lawrence K Smith, a Luthier here in Australia. It is made completely from native Australian woods which is a really nice touch.

Thank you John!

The name Maelstrom came from the cross picking pattern, but I see what you mean about it being a little to ferocious for the piece.

Thank you very much Rob.

The harmonics section wasn't actually supposed to be that long, but I really liked it so I ended up extending it. The idea of it was supposed to be that the bottom notes...

Hi all. I have recently had some free time and I thought I would finally try to write my own piece of music for mandolin.

It is based on a cross picking pattern (down up down - down up down) that...