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Christmas songs like Silent Night and O, Christmas Tree are fun to arrange with lots of tremolo. Many others too.

Just about most every waltz sounds better with trem.

They don't maybe sound as bluegrassy, but they sure sound beautiful.

Midnight on the Water and Ashokan Farewell come to mind.

Okay, a little off topic, but … I love that Tone Revealers’ version of midnight that Dick Dery linked to. It inspired cafe member Bruce Calder to do a similar version with him on mandola and me on...

It's nice to have an instrument that looks good in black & white. :))

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I thought it would be good to have a thread dedicated to Australian tunes, so here we go.
Maybe it should be "Australian" as our combined repertoire is a mix of bits and pieces from other countries...

Sell things I haven't used/played for a couple years? :confused:

I have a list, and I'm checking it twice ... :whistling:

Adeste Fidelis
Angels We Have Heard On High
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Feliz Navidad
The First Noel
Good King Wenceslas
God Rest Ye...

I'm sure that from a distance, the "big differences" we hear under our ears will disappear pretty quickly. And, however it sounds in your space at home has no meaning once you get into a group; Then,...

I think picks are sometimes maddening. One finally gets a pick that sounds just as he/she thinks it should, but the next time it’s played it sounds different, and the search starts again. Sometimes...

I'm not the best piano player so this took me a hot minute to learn but I'm pretty happy with it. I love learning both sections... I feel like it gives me a better appreciation for the piece....

So even though I am still very much a beginner, this weekend I've been attending a Wernick Method Jam Camp. Two things have come out of it:

First, I've been playing double stops all over the neck...

A few examples of what not to do and similar attitudes to basic accompaniment practices on other instruments.

A jam I used to attend had a guitarist who would noodle leads all of the time. He...

Playing just 0023 and 2002 type chords in a 3 hour jam can get old pretty quick.

Make it a game, "how many different D chords can I find on the fretboard?". Some of those will be open chords like...

You should be fine with medium (EJ-74 gauge) or heavy (EJ 75 gauge) strings, I would think. As a member told me when I posted once asking if I should worry about the neck on my $125 Mandobird IV...

I co-host Tunes By the Tracks, a little acoustic concert series, two Wednesdays a month, in the village public library of Clifton Springs, in Ontario County about a half-hour south of Rochester.
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When I first started playing with a little band, the fiddler told me that he was also nervous about performing until he realized that instead of critiquing mistakes, most of the audience was...

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these may have already made the rounds here, but in case anyone hasn't checked these out, David has some really good videos on youtube. Some are basic tech instruction and others are tunes.

Here's...

I'm surprised no one mentioned the #1 thing:

Playing the mandolin makes you a chick magnet! :mandosmiley:

The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra has produced its latest video in Quarantine.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Galop from the movie The Gadfly.

We hope you all like it!

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I know lockdown is getting bad when Canon in D starts to seem interesting again. So I have had a shot at it with 2 mandolin parts. I originally planned more but the predominance of treble was...

We just finished watching Stephen King's series "The Outsider" on HBO, worth watching if you like Stephen King. The song Washington Square is mentioned in an important scene, then played at the end....

Maybe this is common knowledge but...

I had an old Fiddler's Fakebook with a plastic spiral binding that was falling apart. Someone told me they had theirs replaced at Kinkos/Fedex so I took it...