I have not played an instrument for 16 years. After several years of wanting to re-learn (even considering a Chapman Stick) I bought a mandolin. I am eagerly awaiting my class starting next week and bought a couple books to wet my appetite. I started woundering...
What was everyone's first tune on the mando? (Some of you may have to really think way back about this one)
She be comin' around the mountain.
I know, don't laugh.
Ashokan Farewell
Slow, easy to learn, very pretty.
Chuck
Blackberry Blossom
J. Mark Lane
Stanley #10 F5
Pomeroy #72 F4
Brian Dean #30 Bowlback
Wayfaring Stranger, another slow and easy
Jason
Lefty JBovier F5 Tradition, Lefty Mid-Mo M1
My first tune was Liberty. Lp
J.Lane Pryce
Arkansas Traveler
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."~John Mellencamp
"Theory only seems like rocket science when you don't know it. Once you understand it, it's more like plumbing!"~John McGann
"IT'S T-R-E-M-O-L-O, dangit!!"~Me
White Cockade, a very easy fiddle tune.
Home Sweet Home and then Dixie Hoedown. (How's that for a contrast?)
"The more I learn, the more I realize how ignorant I truly am..."
Jessie James in the Key of G.
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
+ Give Blood, Save a Life +
A Soldier's Joy
In 1986 "Battle of Evermore"
In 2004 "Canyon Sonata from the All the Pretty Horses Soundtrack (after 19 years absence from the mandolin)
...and just recently during my first official mandolin lesson, Flatt & Scruggs version of "You are My Flower".
Keith Erickson
Benevolent Organizer of The Mandocello Enthusiast
"Greensleeves"
Lee
Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
Old Joe Clark
Angel Band.
Dena
Over the Waterfall
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!
Black in Black
Seriously...Sally Goodin.
Will Hardy
Ithaca Strings Instruments
Mowry Custom Four String Electric OM (2 years or so)
The theme from "Bonanza."
But "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" came soon after.
Honest.
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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'05 Cuisinart Toaster
'93 Chuck Taylor lowtops
'12 Stetson Open Road
'06 Bialetti expresso maker
'14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig
Amazing Grace & Wildwood Flower - simultaneously
"Blackberry Blossom" - J. Mark Lane
I am impressed, that tune always seemed difficult to me, it seems so simple yet...
My first was "8th of January". A mandolin player in our band (1975) taught it to myself and another member. I didn't start actually playing mandolin till many years later but I could play this one song on the mando.
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
Blue Moon of Kentucky, the song that made me want to pick up the mandolin
Old Joe Clark and Cripple Creek, the same day....
These were tunes I played on the banjo (which I gave up completely after starting the mandolin) #
Glenn Nelson
Las Vegas, NV
"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and play your mandolin."
Sandy Boys
I don't remember it now, bt it would probably come back to me if I thought about it long enough.
South Wind
and I still like it
Avi
Avi
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