Hi everybody
Not sure if it has interest but I found this program for mandolins. I like it alot though..
http://www.maalflasken.dk/mandolintools
UPDATE: I found this video clip of it on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGk035KxWwc
Hi everybody
Not sure if it has interest but I found this program for mandolins. I like it alot though..
http://www.maalflasken.dk/mandolintools
UPDATE: I found this video clip of it on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGk035KxWwc
Man that's cool! And apparently free. So far anyway. Author credits mandolin chords to mandolincafe.com!
I feel like such a luddite.
Its not that the software isn't cool. It sure is. But you have to have a computer near-by while you are playing the mandolin.
The amount of times I have had a computer near me while one of my mandolins was out of its case, in the last 35 years = zero.
Its just a new world.
True, but for people just started learning or who need inspiration it seems cool to me.
BTW. I tried to run it on a different Windows version (Vista) and I needed to update DirectX and Microsoft .Net to make it run. Just incase.
Oh I quite agree. Its real cool. I just am not with the program. For example, I print out sheet music for tunes I find on the web, and take the paper into the other room and put it on a music stand to play it.
Very cool. Like the metronome a lot. Very simple but useful.
Just downloaded an updated version. Looks better and better each time he updates it.
I should probably try this. Truth is I have my laptop in front of me or next to me when I practice pretty much 100% of the time. Its getting to the point that I miss it when I am out at a jam. I don't play from printed music - but I use my computer to save midis and simple recordings etc. - helps me learn tunes by ear. Also use Amazing Slow Downer every day.
Rob G.
Vermont
Yeah me too. I always sit in front of my pc when rehearsing. Nice to have my tabs and music on a big screen . looks like there is also going to be an Android version of the program. looks like he is serious.
Oh, it's for Windows. Bummer. :-( Guess I'll have to play with it at work! :-)
Just visiting.
1923 Gibson A jr Paddlehead mandolin
Newish Muddy M-4 Mandolin
New Deering Goodtime Special open back 17 Fret Tenor Banjo
How do you use that cross-platform?
I use a Mac and another program called Parallels installed on my Mac. Parallels allows me to run Windows on my Mac. The cross platform deal means I can use one computer to run both Mac and Windows software. You can't do it the other way around, as far as I know. If you have a Windows machine, you can't run Mac software.
Just visiting.
1923 Gibson A jr Paddlehead mandolin
Newish Muddy M-4 Mandolin
New Deering Goodtime Special open back 17 Fret Tenor Banjo
Jenz - thanks for the link. I've bookmarked it & i'll install it later. I do most of my practicing along with I'net Bluegrass radio stations - a bit like a long jam session,you don't know what's coming up,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
Does this still exist? The link doesnt work...
this link opens http://archive.is/www.maalflasken.dk
That goes to a page, but theyve taken the stuff down apparently. http://archive.is/YnCOS just has a page that require flash, which i have, but it wont work regardless. perhaps too old?
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Disappointing = /
I'm using chrome and it redirected me to a site that allowed the download of TMTool.zip package.
Google 'TMTool Mandolin' and there are a variety of sites available.
AH, i went to http://www.tucows.com/download.html?...id=1022779&t=2
picked the download from canada, Chrome blocked it as malicious software, and i cant download it. You say youve already downloaded it and its fine?
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Thank you for your help, btw.
Ah, got the download finally from another place. it was like 2 mb? Anyways, thanks again.
Sorry Mike--
Been away from the interwebs. Yup, I downloaded and installed on Win10 without issues. There are four apps, one each for mandolin, guitar, banjo (I know) and uke. For a beginning player, being shown alternate chords is really cool.
See Jeff, I'm just the opposite
I have my guitar and mando right by my side
as a songwriter I've learn some time ago
that If I can't grab it I'm more than likely not going to play it.
I watch youtube videos that inspirer me
and if I had to get my guitar or mandolin from another room
and pull it out of it's case, again not always but more than not, inspiration lost.
Cool indeed. Learning chord variations is a blastFor a beginning player, being shown alternate chords is really cool.
Early on, I wanted something to work on while on lunch break at work. I would identify all the notes of a major scale up to the 12th fret(using a print-out of mandolin fret board with all the notes on it) Then I circled the root, third, and fifth note of that scale with colored pen. Those highlighted color notes show all the root triad and doublestop variations possible to fret with 2,3,or 4 fingers. You can use same to build 7ths, relative minors etc. Takes a little reading on the internet to unlock.
Learning how to build your own chords on mandolin takes only a few hours of study and you'll have it to use even when your computer is in the next room. It's been especially helpful when playing in a group, figuring out a particular chord or progression I'm not used to playing.
Sadly, neither link will work for me.
Loar LM-370
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This link works (The Tomky Tool):
https://download.cnet.com/The-Mandol...=dl&tag=button
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