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    Re: Who makes a wound A string?

    That's a very fair point - it is clearly your experience and what you say makes a lot of sense. Funnily enough I was wondering about the intonation of my strings just a couple of days ago - I thought...
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    Re: Who makes a wound A string?

    Here's an upvote for Thomastik flatwounds. The flatwound A gives a far more even tone throughout the range than is possible with a wound A. I've tried Fisoma and Thomastik are better - the winding is...
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    Re: Vibrações - Jacob do Bandolim

    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...
  4. Thread: Ear Train

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    Re: Ear Train

    Who would have thought that this topic would evoke such strongly held and strongly expressed views? August Watters, a respected member of this community, was for many years a Professor of Ear...
  5. Thread: Ear Train

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    Re: Ear Train

    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...
  6. Re: John McGann transcriptions - Billie's Bounce and St. Thomas

    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...
  7. Re: John McGann transcriptions - Billie's Bounce and St. Thomas

    That's great, let's see if these work.
    if you have MuseScore .mcsz files will look a little nicer
    .mxl files are for other music notation formats such as Sibelius

    There may well be some mistakes...
  8. Re: John McGann transcriptions - Billie's Bounce and St. Thomas

    Sorry Bill, but the Café software only allows uploading files in a limited number of formats. They do not include Musescore (.mscz) or .xml (which allows transfer between the various notation...
  9. Re: John McGann transcriptions - Billie's Bounce and St. Thomas

    MuseScore
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    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...
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    PM me - I might be able to help
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    I'll bite. To come at it from a different direction entirely, this piece is a Bossa Nova and has a very strong clave which really informs the way the tune works.

    There is a ton of information out...
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    whoops! posted before editing
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    Is that on alto ?
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    That's clever - all the colour tones! They sound very like chop chords when played.
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    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...
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    Re: Bandolim case (or case to fit a bandolim)

    Marginally off topic - but what do you think of the Hamilton de Holanda Rozini 10 string bandolim - I've been tempted for a while - but they get mixed reviews. Bandolims, let alone 10 string ones,...
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    Re: Tips for playing chords by ear

    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...
  19. Thread: Mando vibro?

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    Re: Mando vibro?

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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...
  20. Re: No Mandolin content but extraordinarily beautiful and instruc

    That's a fair question and it deserves two answers.

    Short answer - no it wouldn't sound as good.

    Second answer (more respectful and I apologise for the length) - when I heard this first two...
  21. No Mandolin content but extraordinarily beautiful and instructive

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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...
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    Re: Notation or ABC for Minor Swing

    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...
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    Re: Right hand exericises

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/146742-Right-Hand-Practice-Workbook-Mando-Mike

    The book mentioned in this thread is really good
  24. Re: Flattened 3rd and Flattened 7th. Why use one over the other?

    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...
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    Re: Shell Chords on mandolin

    Afraid I've forgotten how to link to YouTube but look up Don Julin 3 string movable mandolin chords and you'll find some very good stuff to get started.
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