Can someone reccomend some quintessential mandolin tunes in the bluegrass vein to learn and the recordings associated with them?
Also, whats a BG jam like? Is it just noodling around over certain chord progressions or is it more like an irish sesiun with everyone having memorized tunes coming together and playing everything they know?
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~rbm
Probably,
Angeline the Baker , whiskey before Breakfast ,Turkey in the Straw, Liberty , and fishers hornpipe,
only because alot of tunes sound or are very much related to these tunes. Trust me you will see.
Have fun .......... Br¥cE
Kick it in the fanny and go #
I think there's a few threads on this subject... though I was thinking it's be fun to do a "survey" thread an get everyones top ten, tally them up and keep a running total... like Red Haired Boy would be what... 95% ? Is there anyone out there who's played more than 6 months who DOESN'T know RHB? LOL
You may not want to use words like "quintessential" at your first BG jam!Originally Posted by
Check out:
http://www.sebabluegrass.org/newslet...tro_bgj_01.htm
http://www.paulhawthorne.com/jamstuff.html
My first 10 songs on the mandolin: Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, Arkansas Traveller, Boil 'dem Cabbage Down, Leather Britches, Colored Aristocracy, Angeline the Baker, Daybreak in Dixie, Red Haired Boy, Turkey in the Straw. That is about how I remember it.
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I've been playing for 2 years and don't know 'Red Haired Boy'. #Here in Western PA I don't think that I've ever heard it played at a festival or jam session. #Maybe I had better learn it real quick like and "gitter done" !
NO RHB? #
Whoah. #LOL. #That's just the one I've come across that most people seem to know. #It was the first one I learned that was slightly more advanced than Yankee Doodle and *gag* Boil Them Cabbage Down (sorry, I can't stand that one) #I played it so much that eveyone in my family, especially my poor husband, pretty much hates it now. #Then the first jam I went to, it was the first song they played, I bout busted up laughing.
It's a good one, I still like it even if my home "audience" has lost it's appriciation. LOL
*suspects he has cabbage to cook*
Jason Anderson
"...while a great mandolin is a wonderful treat, I would venture to say that there is always more each of us can do with the tools we have available at hand. The biggest limiting factors belong to us not the instruments." Paul Glasse
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I suppose everytown is different. #my local BG jam, I have only been to once, dont really care for bluegrass , myself.
whether or not the songs are predetermined depends on the clique-element of your local BG jam.
if there are a bunch of regulars, chances are, they know what they want to play.
I found the guys there to be a little snobby towards new comers. (not just me either)
they acted like their underwear was made of gold. and really they were just a bunch of #fat gutted guys with rebel flags on their bumpers.
you know, I own custom instruments too, being left handed, but I certainly would never tell someone to their face, that their instrument sucks, as I heard people do.
I shouldnt let my one bad experience with BG people create a predjudice in me, but make sure you arent hanging around a bunch of bull dogs.
on the other side, pat morrison, of charlie bill and the morrison's ,
is a very nice lady and her band is all nice people too.
my local BG jam, is more of an instrument afficianado's environment, and less a musician's. #A man looked down at my django book next to my case, he rolled his eyes and sighed in disgust.
and they called my tater bug a wall hanger. even though I was way louder than the kentucky mandolin that they somehow approved of.
sorry , I dont mean to bum out the thread. I am sure most BG guys are real nice. (you) asked what a BG jam was like, thats my own experience. but then again, I live in florida, we have plenty of rednecks, but no hillybillies!!
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