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Two Red Dirts, is this it Mark? Sounds cool.
Would sound great on a curved fretboard slide mando.

Great piece of information, many thanks.

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Dude you DO play fast! :))
I like the one about getting the fingers in the right spacing if possible 3-4 notes in advance. (mainly the shifting middle finger)
Nice vid, thanks.

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7 months now and still happy...

I found the stretching exercises at the beginning were not painful, just a lot of hard work.
There is a sort of twisting motion around the vertical axis...

Not mandolins, but they are women.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittern
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-that’s what Bill Monroe did.

I just found this painting on a guitar in my house.
Personally I don’t like it. It makes the guitar look cheap.

I’m thinking maybe I need to lock up my other instruments when there’s a full moon....

Yep, inspirational triplets. Well lots of things really.

Nice one!
Thanks for the heads up, is the TAB here, the one you did?

I did about 3 months... I think it was mainly posture problems that put an end to it.

Anyone know what the timing in this jig is called, it seems sort of stretched out -I like it, I just wondered if there a name for it?
-when the timing becomes more like 123456, 123456, etc.

‘Music Notes’ on ipad or Tabledit program both are free (enough) to learn to read.
Just set Tabledit on REAL slow and follow a random tune that you can find here:...

Ten years later.
Here’s another transcription of the Sweeney’s Men’s recording. The first line is the flute intro, it appears to be in 6/8 time though the later part missing -cant work it out....

From her Book 3:
The Old Man and the Old Woman (Christmas Rum)
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Thanks Dagger, that’s impressive to see the determination in the finger movements. Who are these guys?

Whatever you do, don’t let anyone lend you a mandolin.
The mandolin is like a lover.
You play it just once and you wont have time for anything else.

I like those colours!
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This woman probably plays the mandolin like this too.

Yes, nice lesson, thanks.

Here are the chords.

‘Un monde qui s’avance’
‘L’amour et prières’ or better ‘L’amour, des prières’
‘Font chanter “La joie d’aimer”’
...are other possibilities.

-could even be la joie de vie! :)

Nice one, well done. This would be in the key of C major, right?

Nice vid, thanks.
Sorry to hear that, but being an interesting instrument it may turn up. Was this in the UK?

I’m guessing here but if I started a tremolo on the upstroke, which seems to me to be rare anyway, then I’d want to start the tremolo with an upstroke. This would avoid the inevitable hiccup that...