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  1. Re: Grappelli style harmonics in swing jazz?

    Yeah, that flurry of harmonics was one of Grapelli's trademark moves. Playing with a bow you can bring out clearly even the higher harmonics (like the fifth and fourth fret guitar harmonics), and...
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    Re: Vibrações - Jacob do Bandolim

    Great stuff! I just tried Andy's track for Bole Bole (it's one of the few I know from his list), and it works really well. Nice clean clear rhythmic playing, if a little more "backgroundy" than I...
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    Re: Vibrações - Jacob do Bandolim

    Wow! That's a great site— seems to have over 1700 nice clean choro lead sheets, plus recordings. :)

    Not to mention good photos of old C-melody saxophones. :cool:

    Many thanks, David!
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    Re: Vibrações - Jacob do Bandolim

    Nice job, Jairo! And thanks for the transcription, Bill-- it's nice to see the 7-string bass licks included.

    Here's a version of Um a Zero I did years ago when I had a quartet with some great...
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    Re: 8va and 8vb

    This makes sense. It's easier to read for guitarists who aren't used to reading up past the 12th fret.

    (But the sound of course is an octave lower than it looks, as with all guitar music written...
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    Consider for example all the thousands of jazz guitarists and mandolinists who play tunes in every key up to five flats, chords, melody and improv. It's just a matter of learning the scales.

    But...
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    Re: Going to check out a jam session

    Took me a few minutes to figure out that this N. Y. jazz club Smalls is not the old Harlem landmark Smalls Paradise, where lots of jazz giants played and recorded way back.

    Still— should be a...
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    Cannonball and Nat in a similar groove, same year. Simpler tune though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkN8nR0EEg


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkN8nR0EEg
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    Actually in this case the "relative major" is Bb not Eb. The melody notes and the chord given (Cm 6/9) show us that the key in that passage (bars 5-7) is not C minor (three flats) but C dorian (two...
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    Re: musical notation question

    A few problems I see: the one-bar excerpt in your first post doesn't show a title, a clef. a key signature (should show a treble clef and three sharps) or a tempo. Nor do you say who made the...
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    Re: Little help? Henderson's Recordame

    First position works fine for the melody. I'd get some of the A's with fourth finger rather than open.

    The sixteen-bar head (with the given chords) moves you through a series of keys:

    1-4: "A...
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    Re: Pick technique

    Picking all down-strokes on mandolin is like playing the violin with all down-bows. It gives a kind of emphasis that is sometimes wanted, and so sometimes we'll see the whole violin section...
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    Re: Playing in Position

    Good point, Ralph. On the E strings in third position you should be able to reach every note from G# up to high E with no change of position. (That is, without recentering your hand or sliding your...
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    Re: Playing in Position

    Usually you'd choose a position to play in based on the notes you will need to play. Each position gives you a little over two octaves of range.

    Can you post an example of the kind of situation...
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    Re: Sarcoli - Serenata alla luna

    For the curious:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMhV2MF7Dg

    It wouldn't be too hard to transcribe it. Anyone care to take that on? ;)

    And Paola, your English is just fine. Welcome to...
  16. Re: Can anyone help me out with a SOL picture?

    Like this one?

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    Re: Second chord in Old Home Place

    Wow, JB, did we go to school together? Those are all tunes I grew up with too.

    But does Ain't Misbehavin' really belong here? It's a tune I've played lots over the decades, but I've never heard...
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    Re: Second chord in Old Home Place

    You took the words out of my mouth, Johnny! Anybody else here remember this one?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fctiF_-RYMU

    They were probably playing in C, so it begins C-E7-F.
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    Re: Second chord in Old Home Place

    Right, B7 there is a dominant seventh chord. Usually in the key of G major it occurs as a "secondary dominant", drawing us into E minor (as in Georgia on my Mind and many other tunes). But here it...
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    Re: I would like to find a beater

    I'd just go around to the pawn shops and try everything that's on the wall.
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    Re: Turkish Mandolin

    Nice playing by the teacher, with some drama going on among the kids. Scene from a movie sounds correct, and in fact a search of baba yilmaz güney turns up a 1971 film called Baba, starring Yilmaz...
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    Re: 1970s Mann Mandolin

    Mann was a Canadian brand name back then for imports. Some information here: http://mannguitars.com/
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    Tall Ship Choro Gig

    My career as a working musician is pretty well behind me now, but once in a while something comes up that I can't resist. A month or so ago I got a call out of the blue from an old friend to play in...
  24. Re: Bach BWV 1002, Partita I. Allemanda -- help fingering chord

    On mandolin, unlike violin, you can play e and f# on the same course at the same time.

    So a#-f#-e-f# can be played 3-4-x-(02). Fourth finger then has the job of muting the A strings.

    A little...
  25. Re: Does anybody know a european mandolin site or group as this o

    There's a Zupfinstrumente subforum on the Markneukirchen Museum site. Looks like there are some interesting discussions there.
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