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    Quote Originally Posted by RandyC View Post
    Fat Bottom Girls by Queen for me. I was learning it on guitar when I bought my first mandolin.
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    This one....

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeZito View Post
    Just a general curiosity:

    What was the first song you ever learned to play on the mandolin?

    If I remember correctly, mine was 'Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms'

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    omg!
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    omg!
    Could be Take Me Out To The Ballgame as far as I'm concerned :D

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    The Girl I Left Behind Me and Soldiers Joy. Someone had shown me Ripple on mandolin before I actually owned one myself. Went back to get that right soon after the first couple songs.
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    Star of the County Down! Still enjoy playing it.
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    Stone Wall (Around Your Heart) by Gary Stewart, as played by Peter Rowan and Mandolin Orange. Still one of my favorites.

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    Flop Eared Mule, from my teacher Pete Martin (great teacher BTW).

    I had only been playing a few weeks then.
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    Jaycat, the Fibich tribute is my all-time favorite!! Haven't seen that in years. I've always loved the notation that "If there is a 3rd clarinet, some violins may go home."

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    "The Irish Washerwoman", (back in 1972?) which incidentally was the first tune I learned on guitar a year or two earlier.

    When my youngest brother Erik wanted to play at age 11 or so , (he started on mandolin) the very first tune he had me teach him was...… "Piggies" by George Harrison/Beatles, followed by "Arab Bounce". How's that for a start? (He eventually moved to Austin, as a fiddler/guitarist, played a few years with Gary P Nunn, Junior Brown, and a lot of other guys. Eventually got inducted into The Western Swing Hall of Fame)
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    That was 57 years ago but I think it was probably Bonapartes retreat or Boil that cabbage down. I miss those days.

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    Spud, I met Hi-Lo Brown at a festival some years ago and he played Stone Wall Around Your Heart for me in a jam and I have played it ever since...I neve heard anyone but him sing it....I always figured he wrote it but I`ll have to check that out, I like the song but it has a wide range where it can only sung in one specific key unless you have a wide vocal range...I do it in A...

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    I played tenor banjo before I ever picked up a mandolin, so I knew a bunch of tunes already - I'm fairly sure the first tune I ever played on a mandolin would have been either Dancing Eyes (a great Sean Ryan jig) or The Tongs By the Fire, another jig I was really fond of at that time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jill McAuley View Post
    I played tenor banjo before I ever picked up a mandolin, so I knew a bunch of tunes already.
    Same here... I think the first song I played on the mandolin was The Irish Washerwoman.
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    Jesse James on my Lone Star Venice Mandolin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spud3 View Post
    Stone Wall (Around Your Heart) by Gary Stewart, as played by Peter Rowan and Mandolin Orange. Still one of my favorites.
    That's a nice take on that tune. For reference, here's the Gary Stewart version. (editorial note: Gary was the last true country singer, IMHO).
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    Quote Originally Posted by jaycat View Post
    That's a nice take on that tune. For reference, here's the Gary Stewart version. (editorial note: Gary was the last true country singer, IMHO).
    Stewart's voice shared a lot of qualities with Gram Parsons. There's also Doc Watson's version, where he channels Burl Ives...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willie Poole View Post
    Spud, I met Hi-Lo Brown at a festival some years ago and he played Stone Wall Around Your Heart for me in a jam and I have played it ever since...I neve heard anyone but him sing it....I always figured he wrote it but I`ll have to check that out, I like the song but it has a wide range where it can only sung in one specific key unless you have a wide vocal range...I do it in A...

    Willie
    I do it in G, as it's done here. I can just get to the upper harmonies, but this is one I like singing the melody. Rowan adds a great third harmony that I would have never found. I like that Andrew and Emily bring it into a more BG feel from the original

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    A cornish folk tune called Pencarrow,

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    I think it was Sheahan's M1 Jig.
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    Cripple Creek.
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    Probably Froggy comes a Courtin'...
    Cute little tune in "D".
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeZito View Post
    What was the first song you ever learned to play on the mandolin?
    Some oldtime fiddle tune, I don't remember which one, could have been any of the common old tunes we used to play when I was a kid. (I hear that nowadays many of those tunes are called 'chestnuts' and are not too highly thought of anymore - stuff like Mississippi Sawyer, Soldier's Joy, Sally Ann, Sally Goodin, Buffalo Gals, etc - I still like them though). Anyway I already knew a bunch of those tunes, from playing fiddle.

    In all likelihood, in my excitement I probably (ineptly) blasted through a dozen tunes on the first day of mandolin, to see what was possible. It probably sounded awful! I had a hard time with the pick at first, although the fretting hand was easier because it was basically like playing a fretted fiddle (same tuning) so I didn't have to relearn a new fingerboard.

    (I've never taken a liking to non-GDAE instruments; if an instrument isn't already tuned to GDAE then it usually soon will be. Including my current electric guitar (my first-ever electric guitar!) which got permanently tuned in 5ths shortly after I bought it a few years back. I love GDAE! Lol.)

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    I love the Red Allen, Frank Wakefield version of “stone wall” too. There is something about the raw power in that old recording that strikes a chord in me.
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