Poll - what musical style do you primarily play on mandolin?

[Dave Hicks]

Blues, folk and rock.

D.H.

[journeybear]

What are "cake walks"?

Maybe something like this here ...



... or if you wanna get all gussied up ...



... or maybe, if you wanna look it up ... Though Mike might have had something else in mind ...

[Mark Wilson]

Fiddle tunes mostly. Is that old time or bluegrass

[Miltown]

As a beginner, what I *want* to play and what I *can* play are very, very different. 😅

[colorado_al]

Dawg, jazz

[zedmando]

Sorry Zed, not a fan of hayseed Dixie but, whatever floats

I'm not into bluegrass, but I like what they do, so it would be a way to give my Mom a treat, as it were.

[Pete Martin]

Jazz - primarily bebop and 50s.

[Nick Gellie]

I play in this order:

1. Bluegrass and Oldtime
2. Quebecois
3. Celtic (Irish and Scottish)
4. Balkan and Greek music,
5. Dawg, and
6. Asturian and Galician music

[Ausdoerrt]

As a beginner, what I *want* to play and what I *can* play are very, very different. ��

Don't let that stop you :D

[Caleb]

O'Carolan tunes, old folk songs, and stuff I make up. No Bluegrass.

[Nick Gellie]

Caleb, I am pleasantly surprised that a Texan like you has such eclectic taste in music.

[Sleet]

Fiddle tunes of the overlapping old time, celtic, contra dance traditions. I'm also a beginner with a short attention span so I've played around with anything that catches my interest, but that's home base.

[DavidKOS]

What a breadth of styles!

Maybe I should answer like you guys did.

Lots of Italian music, trying to keep up on classical, jazz and Gypsy jazz, some Klezmer, Greek and Russian tunes, Afghan music (yes they have a small studio mandolin tradition) and a smattering of Americana, Old time, Bluegrass, C and W, Western Swing, and Celtic. Once in a while Cajun music and some Indian mandolin rags.

[yankees1]

Old time, Bluegrass and any interesting song that our group likes. We mainly play at nursing homes so we try to play songs that these older people remember from long ago ! Here is an interesting story about a nursing home resident ! She was pushed in on her wheel chair and as every song was played this lady placed her chin on her chest and held both hands over her ears as she evidently didn't want to hear us ! But, when we began playing You are my Sunshine, her hands dropped to her side, she looked up towards the ceiling with the biggest smile but never said a word ! At the conclusion of the song , both hands went back to her ears, head went back down for the remaining songs and not a word spoken ! That song evidently brought back good memories from long ago ! This is how we get paid at nursing homes !

[Nick Gellie]

Maybe something like this here ...



... or if you wanna get all gussied up ...




... or maybe, if you wanna look it up ... Though Mike might have had something else in mind ...

Doesn't Ry Cooder get his inspiration from this style of music?

[Teak]

Doesn't Ry Cooder get his inspiration from this style of music?

Yeah, considering that Ry and Taj were in a group together back when Cooder was only 17 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sons

Thanks, Journeybear! Unless I hear otherwise, this will be my idea of "cakewalk" music. Actually, I give it the term "Rowdy Music". I like my music rowdy.

[colorado_al]

Wish I could play this:
https://www.therootschannel.com/medi...nd-john-miller
I can't stop listening to this show. Wow! I hope some of it will sink in by osmosis or something.
I have been a fan of John & John for a long time, and they seem to only get better and better. The tone and precision of both players is unbelievable.
This is what I want to play like, but it is far from what I actually sound like.

[Johnny60]

Mainly bluegrass and country on the mandolin.

[Caleb]

Caleb, I am pleasantly surprised that a Texan like you has such eclectic taste in music.

Texans are a pretty eclectic lot.

[Pick&Grin]

old time & celtic

[Tom Haywood]

Pretty even spread of bluegrass, old time, fiddle tunes, country, Americana, and blues.

[PH-Mando]

Folk, celtic, Italian.

[ziapack]

Bluegrass

[John Flynn]

Other: Christian liturgical music, including everything from classical to contemporary

[allowishish]

This poll made me think and do some math...

I actually play an even 3 way split (for my standard tunes) of 1/3 Old school punk (think social distortion/butthole surfers/the clash), 1/3 John Prine and 1/3 folky bluegrass.

One of my favorite tunes to play is the clash's BankRobber, even though they do that one with a reggae twist, it has always been folky to me. So I have always done it in a folky bluegrass way. Then one day at a Hot Tuna concert they played Bankrobber the same way that I play it, my buddy (who used to give me crap about it) looked at me and just started to laugh.