Kind of like this? (Be patient, it actually works)
https://youtu.be/M_klhEaxyVA
Kind of like this? (Be patient, it actually works)
https://youtu.be/M_klhEaxyVA
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
David Hopkins
2001 Gibson F-5L mandolin
Breedlove Legacy FF mandolin; Breedlove Quartz FF mandolin
Gibson F-4 mandolin (1916); Blevins f-style Octave mandolin, 2018
McCormick Oval Sound Hole "Reinhardt" Mandolin
McCormick Solid Body F-Style Electric Mandolin; Slingerland Songster Guitar (c. 1939)
The older I get, the less tolerant I am of political correctness, incompetence and stupidity.
David Hopkins
2001 Gibson F-5L mandolin
Breedlove Legacy FF mandolin; Breedlove Quartz FF mandolin
Gibson F-4 mandolin (1916); Blevins f-style Octave mandolin, 2018
McCormick Oval Sound Hole "Reinhardt" Mandolin
McCormick Solid Body F-Style Electric Mandolin; Slingerland Songster Guitar (c. 1939)
The older I get, the less tolerant I am of political correctness, incompetence and stupidity.
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.
“Without music, life would be a mistake” Neitzsche
Collings MF5-V
Kimble A5
An electric rig with an envelope filter trying to sound like Jerry...
Star of the County Down! Still enjoy playing it.
2003 Breedlove Rogue2018 Martin OM-282018 Ome Minstrel 12" Banjo
Stone Wall (Around Your Heart) by Gary Stewart, as played by Peter Rowan and Mandolin Orange. Still one of my favorites.
Flop Eared Mule, from my teacher Pete Martin (great teacher BTW).
I had only been playing a few weeks then.
Davey Stuart tenor guitar (based on his 18" mandola design).
Eastman MD-604SB with Grover 309 tuners.
Eastwood 4 string electric mandostang, 2x Airline e-mandola (4-string) one strung as an e-OM.
DSP's: Helix HX Stomp, various Zooms.
Amps: THR-10, Sony XB-20.
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."
"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)
https://www.artnewsportal.com/art-ne...rt-from-archer
Niles H
That was 57 years ago but I think it was probably Bonapartes retreat or Boil that cabbage down. I miss those days.
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 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.
2018 Girouard Concert oval A
2015 JP "Whitechapel" tenor banjo
2018 Frank Tate tenor guitar
1969 Martin 00-18
my Youtube channel
Jesse James on my Lone Star Venice Mandolin.
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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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).
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
Stewart's voice shared a lot of qualities with Gram Parsons. There's also Doc Watson's version, where he channels Burl Ives...
A cornish folk tune called Pencarrow,
http://www.kesson.com/tunery/showtune.php?X=138
I think it was Sheahan's M1 Jig.
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
Cripple Creek.
"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." - Mark Twain
Eastman MD615SB
Martin D35
Gibson SG
Probably Froggy comes a Courtin'...
Cute little tune in "D".
Doc Ivory
-Play loud, live long..
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.)
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.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
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