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Liza Jane
Buffalo Gals
Chinese Breakdown
Liza Jane
RedLine A-5 #14
Howard Morris Flat Top #337
1936 Gibson A-50
My first songs (i.e. fiddle tunes)on guitar were '8th of January', 'Arkansas Traveler', and 'Cross the Big Sandy' thirty some years ago. When I switched over to mandolin (a few decades later)it was just a matter of transposing between guitar and mando, so pretty much anything I knew on guitar could be translated into mandolin (with some notable exceptions--that required the lower strings on guitar as drones etc.).
Greg Henkle
2002 Prucha F5
1962 Martin D18
1965 Fender Telecaster
Fisher's Hornpipe
Yankee Doodle
Simple Gifts
Heres my 2 cents.
Blackberry blossom (very first tune, Should have known better than to go straight in on page 89 of Tottle's book)
Cripple Creek
Soldiers Joy
Mando: Weber Bitteroot
Soldier Joy
New campton races
out of join
Tomorrow is tomorrow
I had gone out and acquired Thiles intructional Cd, which came with sheet music. Therefore, my first were:
Red Haired Boy, Swallow-tailed Jig, and Hop the Fence.
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Angeline the Baker
June Appal/Apple
Miss McCleod's Reel
(on violin, aged 9)Mary Had a Little Lamb
Taube
8th of January
Arkansas Traveller
- can't remember -
Guitar:
12 bar blues in A
12 bar blues in D
12 bar blues in E
(four more and I would have had the complete set!)
Mandolin:
Teir Abhaile
Pat's Top Coat
As I Roved Out
(Some of you will now know EXACTLY which book I first picked up!)
When I got my first mandolin, a 1918 Martin bowl-back for $20 at a "WE BUY SELL ANYTHING" joint circa 1963, I thought it sounded oriental, so I learned SAKURA. I soon after learned MY GAL from the first Jim Kweskin Jug Band record. I think the next tune was THE WRECK OF THE OLD 97 from a Patrick Sky record.
I know my first flat picked guitar tune was WILDWOOD FLOWER and the first finger picking tune was RAILROAD BILL.
The first banjo tune, of course was CRIPPLE CREEK.
Jim Yates
Midnight Special (my very first song ... with chords only)
Cripple Creek (melody)
Whispering ( melody )
Carl Martin - Everyday I have the Blues
My gear : 1927 A0/Ajr , JM-11 , Fender 346 white XH
the songs i listed earlier were the first songs i learned on the mandolin. i can't remember the first songs i learned on a guitar some 40-odd years ago - something folksy, to be sure - but whatever they were ... until recently, i was still playing the same monotonous, dirge like chord changes i learned them in.
when i discovered the mandolin i discovered music.
Golden Slippers
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Soldier's Joy
Red-Haired Boy
Cripple Creek
Brilliancy
Talk about a steep learning curve But well worth it for sure.
WBL
I started on mandolin last December. My first 3 tunes were: Kesh (jig), Morrison's (jig) and The Maid Behind the Bar (reel). Mrs McLeod's (reel) was one of the next ones. I know quite a few Irish tunes on flute, and they translate well to mandolin.
My first instrument was classical guitar, way back when, and my first important tune there was Greensleeves.
On guitar ca. 1966. I'm surprised a similar list hasn't been posted yet...
Louie Louie
Gloria
House of the Rising Sun
Mandolin was something my uncle played back in the Ukraine.
Solders Joy. I now use Wheel Hoss. I love the sound of the G string on my Weber. A good drill.
Arkansas Traveler
Old Joe Clark
and then the **!!@@ gave me Blackberry Blossum after which I didnt play for five years.
We few, we happy few.
Over the Waterfall
Banish Misfortune
Whiskey Before Breakfast
...then I got really ambitious (after an Andy Irvine concert) and spent a summer trying to figure out Smeceno Horo...
Karen Escovitz
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Otter OM #1
Brian Dean OM #32
Old Wave Mandola #372
Phoenix Neoclassical #256
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If you're gonna walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!
(Also from the Tottle Book)
Boil 'em Cabbage Down
Old Joe Clark
Cripple Creek
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
Bile Them Cabbages Down
Ragtime Annie
Chinese Breakdown
Gibson A-9
Fender FM-63
Gibson A-12
(Just for starters.......)
Ode to Joy
Wildwood Flower
Liberty
You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.
First tunes on the whistle were Fool's Jig and Fisher's Hornpipe.
First tunes on the mando were Liberty, Fisher's Hornpipe, and from Rich DelGrasso's book Old Joe Clark.
Not to hijack the thread, but how many tunes do you know? You don't have to list them all, just give a number.
I think I know about 35 or so...
On guitar 25 years back:
Salt Creek
Devil's Dream
Sailor's Hornpipe
On mandolin--Fall of 2004:
Ashokan Farewell
Tennessee Waltz
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (for Christmas--forgot it already!)
I think I can stumble through about seven to nine tunes so far.
Chuck
Guitar: I Don't Live Today - Jimi
Fly By Night - Rush
Livin' Lovin' Maid - Led Zep
(What do ya expect at 15?)
Mando: Arkansas Traveler
Soldier's Joy
Old Joe Clark
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