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Jill, Ye Vagabonds sound great! Those mandolins really sing. I'll check them out, thanks for the idea.

Grey Owl is such a great tune! But all your videos are great. Everyone should have a family band like that (I can't convince my wife to play anything, and my son is too young).

I second the...

I enjoyed both the music and the photography. Superb quality throughout.

Thank you Jozef, and congratulations on the new album! Merry Christmas to you, too.

It's a great sound from the mandolin, absolutely. You're lucky to have each other - a great instrument for you, a great player for it!

I have loathed this song for many years since working in a shop as a student Christmas job, where a tacky over-paced version of it was playing on loudspeakers several times every day. This was the...

Great playing, great video! That was a real pleasure to watch.

Outstanding! That's beautifully done. I'm sure your wife liked it.

Yes, I have seen this one before ... but it's just as good the second time round.

This is how I learnt it, too. If your piece is in 4/4 time and full of 16ths, the DUDU picking pattern is needed to play those. Notes of longer durations, consequently, turn into downstrokes as long...

You're doing things there that I didn't even think possible. It's a beautiful tune and a perfect and impressive rendition.

That's quite the band you have there! Good to see you enjoying the music.

Here's Schwäbisch:

Wouldn't it depend on the melody? If a slide from one note to the next one up would sound good, that's the finger that will cover two notes. If there's a "breathing gap" between two notes, that's...

The first couple of bars are similar to Alouette. I'm German, and the closest match to my mind hasn't been mentioned yet: This German children's song about a lanky boy and a plump girl picking fruit....

Well played! Nice tone and a fun video!

I wouldn't say I've settled on the Hawk picks. They're one of my current favourites, along with many of the others in that video - Gravity, Blue Chip, Dunlop, and several varieties of each!

I'm...

I'm on the same quest, and the video below is part of it. I've linked it in a couple of other pick threads recently, but it fits in here too.



The information out there is so confusing that...

I second the comment about the big sound! I was experimenting with drones just yesterday (John knows about this). You show how it's done properly. Great playing!

My workaround was to record a "jiggy click track" of me playing along with a jig on headphones (a jig by Marla Fibish, coincidentally), with muted strings. Then you can play the melody in the same...

That's a very nice video! I learnt this cantiga at one point, but never recorded it. Your version has just the spirit I was trying for.

Brilliant playing!

Welcome! I'm sure you'll find this a friendly, interesting and supportive place. Your journey with the mandolin will be well accompanied by your journey here.

Sounding good! I like the tone and ornamentation.

That's a great video! I hope it was as enjoyable as it sounds.