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Here is a version of Scottish musician and composer Dougie MacLean's lovely air written for his parents. I have recorded this along with my great friend and playing colleague Janine Ashall who takes...

Given the blank looks I get when I mention Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Carlo Aonzo - even David Grisman and Dagger Gordon! - to friends and family, I think all mandolinists are under-rated.

At...

You can look at Mandolin Mondays every week (thanks David Benedict) and see very good players who often are not particularly well known and could generally be said to be somewhat under-rated. There's...

First, thanks for the great responses.



Standard tuning indeed.



Surprise! Not feedback. Well, ok, it is, but not in the guitar amp feedback sense. That's the SOMA Lyra-8 synth. You'll...

Yes, the truth is that I have always thought that, "what a great musician he is"... he has recorded things that surpass in performance quality those of many "professional musicians" who are often...

Good points, especially when it comes to forumspeak.....:whistling:

I think on this forum we have a better than average grasp on language basics, especially when compared to other music and...

I was working in Florence some time back and was sitting in a park one morning playing the F-style mandolin I brought with me overseas.

A couple of Italian old boys came by to see what I was...

This is the fourth song of my Goblin Folk project, where I use electric & acoustic mandolin family instruments to create music that feral woodland humanoids would enjoy. It's a take on Andante Lute,...

OK, dots means standard notation. It's a really good thing to learn to read standard notation. I learned it when I took classical guitar lessons. There are several major advantages over tablature. It...

I have gone to a session where I couldn't play a single tune. I was taught to respectfully ask if I could record on my phone to learn the tunes and enjoy the show - Then go back home and learn those...

Here's a lovely slide that I first learned on the concertina from Cormac Begley. I was messing around with it this morning in a few different keys and discovered I really like it in C minor on the...

Thanks my friends! Here's another great John Reischman tune. Thanks to Tim Sweeney for turning me on to John. Thanks for the Listen!~o)~o)~o):mandosmiley: ...

Generally speaking, when I remain sensitive and try to figure out WHY a session is run a bit "differently" than I expected or am used to, I look closely and notice that there are reasons that usually...

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(by the way, Fisher's Hornpipe and Devils Dream are well established in the American tradition, the latter known as "De'il Among the Tailors" in Scotland)

Indeed Ranald, we foreigners sometimes call it "the Canadian national fiddle tune" but we still mix it with Scots and Irish tunes at the ceilidhs.

Outside of formal dances and competitions,...

May I humbly remark that, when using other languages for comparison, one should be careful not to confuse grammatical and natural gender; they are not necessarily identical. A number of grammatically...

Ever since the removal of the fretboard extension, mine's been confused.

I have that book, "The Scottish Violinist" which is in fact a book of selected JSS compositions from several of his collections, and some of his variations on tunes like "East Neuk of Fife".
It's a...

In one big island: England, Scotland, Wales
In a separate big island: Ireland (the Republic, and the 6 counties north)
My understanding is: Great Britain is England, Scotland Wales
The United...

"I am assuming from the OP that he is the only musician."
I may have a guitar player and singer, but the mandolin will be doing the heavy lifting.

"I'm curious about the taste and ethnic...

Scotland is a part of Great Britain.

Funny you suggest that - I'd do the reverse, since the next section begins in the upper range, and the top line of the ending puts one in position for that, whereas the bottom line sets one up for...

Hear it played here by Dave Swarbrick at around 2:26/


https://youtu.be/1upYyh4J7R4?si=zkVEnhC9xYmmSCIL

It’s now in second edition 1 jan 2013.

Same tune here: https://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=tunearch.org/wiki/Pittengardner%27s_Rant.no-ext/0001
Good luck! :)