Crosspicking Christmas (in GDAD)

[mlinkins]

Here are my arrangements of Joy to the World and I Saw Three Ships, both using GDAD tuning and crosspicking techniques. If anyone else uses GDAD mandolin tuning, I'd love to hear about what your doing (including hearing any clips.

[F-2 Dave]

Sounds great. Love your arrangements. What mandolin are you playing?

[mlinkins]

Thanks! 1913 Gibson A (pumpkin).

[F-2 Dave]

Sweet. I may try to steal your arrangements.

[mlinkins]

F-2 Dave - I do have them handwritten in standard notation. I can e-mail you copies if you're interested.

[Denny Gies]

Very nicely done.

[Clement Barrera-Ng]

Very nicely done, and your mandolin sounds great.

[sgarrity]

Sounds great. Wonderful playing!

[Eddie Sheehy]

I played some Christmas Carols on a Bouzouki - GGDDAADD - last year - mix of chordal strums and crosspicking...

[TheBlindBard]

Can anybody post a link of the OP's playing just plain in the text box you normally type in? for some reason, when people imbed links, my screen reader won't pick up on them.

[Rob Beck]

BlindBard, hopefully this is what you need:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DBMAIz4...%3DDBMAIz4DM-g

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=49IvSAB...%3D49IvSABrNAs

Mark, those were great versions, I love the sound of "droning" open strings on mandolin!

[John Kelly]

Great sound and playing, Mark. Eddie, a super selection and played with your usual flair!

[mlinkins]

Shaun: I enjoyed checking out your You-Tube channel. Some great fiddle tunes. Nice sound and nicely played!

[TheBlindBard]

Ah, thank you very much that is what I needed

[mlinkins]

Eddie: Thanks for sharing this! Great sound and playing! Perfect tuning for so many Christmas carols. Works so well on bouzouki!

[DataNick]

Nicely Done! both Mlinkins & Eddie!

[TheBlindBard]

I really like your playing, very nice GDAD tuning is fun. I've only used it to try and work on a Tool song.

[mlinkins]

Several people have requested sheet music for I Saw Three Ships. I am attaching - hopefully successfully - the music below. The tuning for this piece is GDAD (highest string[s] tuned down a whole step to D). The D drones with the flags pointed up are to be played on the open (high) D string (with up-strokes). Everything with the flag pointed down is to be played on the lower 3 (GDA) strings. (In the section with double-stops and chords, everything is played on the lower 3 strings. No high D drone in that section.) I will also post the sheet music for Joy to the World sometime soon.

[mlinkins]

Several people have requested sheet music for I Saw Three Ships. I am attaching - hopefully successfully - the music below. The tuning for this piece is GDAD (highest string[s] tuned down a whole step to D). The D drones with the flags pointed up are to be played on the open (high) D string (with up-strokes). Everything with the flag pointed down is to be played on the lower 3 (GDA) strings. (In the section with double-stops and chords, everything is played on the lower 3 strings. No high D drone in that section.) I will also post the sheet music for Joy to the World sometime soon.

[JH Murray]

Not sure if it is my browser, but all I see is a black screen.

[TheArimathean]

Not sure if it is my browser, but all I see is a black screen.

Same here I'm using Google Chrome (I think the latest version, not really sure).

[mlinkins]

JH Murray and TheArimathean - The problem is on my end. Sorry. I will try again to embed. Not sure what is wrong. If it doesn't work, I can send you PDF's via e-mail.

The tuning for this piece is GDAD (highest string[s] tuned down a whole step to D). The D drones with the flags pointed up are to be played on the open (high) D string (with up-strokes). Everything with the flag pointed down is to be played on the lower 3 (GDA) strings. (In the section with double-stops and chords, everything is played on the lower 3 strings. No high D drone in that section.)

[mlinkins]

One more attempt. JH Murray: If this doesn't work, I will e-mail a copy to you. The Arimathean - If you would like a copy, e-mail me at marklinkins64@gmail.com. Sorry about the confusion re: attachments.

[TheArimathean]

Problem identified: it seems the embedded JPEG images are appearing as black screens, but the PDF works perfectly and all is well.
Thanks, mlinkins, this is a great arrangement!

[lorrainehornig]

Very nice!