Nice Youtube clip of Chris Thile on his Loar (really!)

[danb]

For real this time

[JEStanek]

Not too shabby!

Jamie

[Andy Miller]

Wow, things get pretty peppy at about 5 minutes!

[Theo W.]

I want that mandolin.

[hank]

You can say what you will but there ain't no other that can do it like Chris. Amazing Loar too.

[Rob Fowler]

Dan, I think this video was posted in this thread on 20 April. Great video for a second round, though! Check out that 10 string mandocello by Paul Lehstock! What a trip!

[michaelpthompson]

Anybody else notice that he was playing an A-style for about five seconds at the beginning of the video? And a couple other times too.

[Bing Cullen]

now that was fabulous. Much better to have a strong melodic theme than just to do improvisational licks at rapid speed..truly listenable repetitively.

Chris seems to have removed some of the higher frets on the extension..is that naughty to do that on a Loar?

[Rob Fowler]

The A style is his Smart mandola that he's had since his Nickel Creek days.

[ToneSter]

Bing..............
In the official "Loar" law book pg. 221 it does state that this is NOT allowed, though in the beginning of the new 2011 "Loar Law" book it states the Chris Thile is exempt of laws pgs. 220 thru 231.

5:11 thru 5:15 he rips a very clean and still very tasty lick.

[Dagger Gordon]

Who is the guitarist?

[Larry S Sherman]

Chris seems to have removed some of the higher frets on the extension..is that naughty to do that on a Loar?

My understanding is that the original fretboard was removed and saved and a new fretboard was installed with better intonation. The change is easily reversible.

Larry

[Bigtuna]

Did anyone catch what movie that was for?

[Eric W]

Who is the guitarist?

Jon Brion

[Mandoviol]

Did anyone catch what movie that was for?

They were making the soundtrack for the film "Stepbrothers."

[Dan Johnson]

that is smoking. What a grasp of musical idioms.

[JeffD]

Superlative playing.

I enjoyed the slower passages myself, where his genius was more easily grasped, more than the blisteringly athletic "piles of notes".

[Dobe]

Superlative playing.

I enjoyed the slower passages myself, where his genius was more easily grasped, more than the blisteringly athletic "piles of notes".

Ditto, also more attainable as a player than (my favorite new phrase) " the blisteringly athletic "piles of notes"

[jesserules]

sorry, I wanted to listen to this, and I tried, but after a couple of minutes I just couldn't deal with the puffy-faced guy talking all the time.

[JeffD]

Well Jon Brion has that effect on people.

[JeffD]

Ditto, also more attainable as a player

I am not so sure. Well, I am not going to obtain either one, as I would have had to start playing 10 years before I was born.

But in general I suspect that the genius of his beautiful musical choices, complex harmonies, and interesting phrase transitions might be harder to accomplish than just turning on the fan and blowing the glitter at the mike. I don't know. Certainly I can appreciate his talent better in the slower sections, and stand in awe of his musical intuition. While the faster stuff, yea it blows my hair back, but it doesn't engage me beyond saying "wow, he must have been up all night practicing that one."

[danb]

Dan, I think this video was posted in this thread on 20 April. Great video for a second round, though! Check out that 10 string mandocello by Paul Lehstock! What a trip!

Ah, sorry for the re-post. I missed it the first time around. I'm really amazed at how much he's leaped ahead even in the last few years. Very tasty playing, great feel, and the dark woody tone he's pulling off that old mandolin too!

Paul, if you're listening, what are the scale length/tuning particulars of the 10-string?