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

Hi Eric, I'm sure you'll find this place informative and helpful on your mandolin journey - and friendly, too. Don't forget to have a look at the social groups - there's one for newbies, one for...

Sorry, I didn't see this when you first posted it. The combination of songwriting, rhythm, music theory, mandolin and Irish music in a teacher is probably not very common. You may have to separate...

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...

Hello! Tell us about your mandolin story. :)

It sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe I should try it.

Yes, but the opposite is more common. I know my mandolin can sound great, and usually I feel that I'm not doing it justice!

I love the series, too. My Mandolin Mondays T-Shirt and hoodie should be on their way by now.

I liked both recordings very much, and I recognised the David Surette interpretation. A good person to learn from!

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...

This is the MP3 that introduced me to Kevin Macleod's music. His mandolin playing on this set sounds like the purest of waterfalls. I've bought several of Kevin's recordings since, and he's one of a...

They just sound so good. And looking at them play, you can see that they are really living and breathing the song in that moment.

Nice tune, good playing!

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

Congratulations on the new mandolin! I'm glad you're happy with it. It looks and sounds great.

Nice to meet you. Coincidentally, we were in Maidstone today. Boughton Monchelsea is near there.

That's not me in the video. It's the first and only recording I could find of this tune, and I...

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

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