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That's true in my areas as well, out here in the US Pacific Northwest. Good Irish backers on guitar are worth their weight in gold. It's like being a bass player in a rock band, you'll never lack for...

Good info, Paul! :)

There's also an older multi-page cautionary MandolinCafe discussion about guitars in Irish music. (Not sure I should link to that thread, as it might at first seem...

Hi Paul,

Nice to hear from you. Yes we're fine thanks.

I've seen most of those TG4 documentaries including Arty. To be honest, they're all worth watching. I decided to just give a sample of...

http://www.folkstreams.net/films.php?cat=8&sort=recent

This’ll keep you busy for a while.

Your Q8 should work well for the audio, experiment with positioning etc.
The USB connection should allow you to record directly to the PC working as an audio interface.
So you could just record the...

I've made a few lockdown videos, which come out like this:

https://youtu.be/Op8WHIiwSO4

Apologies for the jangly mandolin - it's an old bowlback whose sunken top I recently fixed, but the...

As a start you could check out this guide https://www.life wire.com/best-free-video-editing-software-programs-4128924 it'll give you a bit of an overview of the basic options. I use Premier, but...

Not at all - it nicely demonstrates what I said above. That has always bothered me - whenever I asked music theorists for a simple rule or formula, they rained me with cryptic examples. I half...

I really prefer to play with folks a bit ahead of me. I like a jam where I don't know about 2/3 of the tunes. I like being stretched.

That said, it is only a preference, and I tend to play with...

That's a really great line-up Paul. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. If I didn't have other things on I might even go to it myself.

Good to hear that you seem to be doing well.

I seem to vaguely...

Unfortunately, my lack of forward planning means I can't make it. Public transport stops early to my part of Wales, which means I would need to organise accommodation in Birmingham. Pitching my tent...

Thanks!

So, let's try this again (if only editing posts was allowed beyond a certain time...)

Here's me playing a 4 course medieval lute I built. The song I'm playing here is 'Douce Dame Jolie'...

Since there's violins, a ruan and a bandurria above, hopefully this is OK despite the lack of mandos (feel free to delete if not).

Here's me playing a 4 course medieval lute I built. The song I'm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-erNldHdV8&t=306s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-erNldHdV8&t=306s

Dave Swarbrick on fiddle and mandolin. The gap between Swarb's fiddle playing and the...

Someone posted about this over at thesession.org and I've just spent all morning perusing it while I should've been working! It's the Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music - each tune is...

Not a shred of mandolin content but those interested in hiking are welcome to see what I was doing while this blog posting was being auto-posted. Spent three days off the grid this past Wednesday...

Wanted to make sure you got an answer to this. On a Friday night things tend to move down the queue quicker.

Sort of depends upon what Django era but I have a good idea for starters. I personally...

Hi there,

As requested, here's a chord melody with a better left hand view.

-Aaron


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYSrGZWTGeU

Here are 4 videos each containing a common bebop improvising phrase. The lick starts at 4:50 of each video. The first of each vid describes the scale and key each phrase comes from (key of F major,...

This is my interpretation of John Reischman's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I made a recording of this tune a couple of years ago on a Kentucky KM 505, but wanted to re-record it using my...

Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures and video of the Feb 18, 1924 Loar #75700 with Virzi. Here is a recent video of the sister of this beauty: Feb 18, 1924 Loar #75701 also with Virzi....

That was cool Paul. I was especially impressed by the glitchy playing technique. I wonder how long that took to nail down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLw5IuukUnE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdNXnf1g7OE

I too very much admire Jethro and his playing...check out this website that has recordings of his lessons.

http://www.theacousticcompany.com/jethro/index.html

The man to contact is Don...

Another way of looking at modes is their order from "brightest" or "most major" to "darkest" or "most minor". Start with a lydian scale: tonic, major 2, major 3, augmented 4, perfect 5, major 6,...