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That's some very nice playing, but to my ear that's much more BG than it is jazz.

Of course the real issue is "what does one mean by jazz?"

Trad New Orleans style? Chicago style? Big band...

If you are interested in playing any style of jazz, I'd suggest:

1. Listening to a lot of the best players of all eras - particularly horn players - to help you internalize the sound and swing of...

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714) was a major German baroque composer in the era just before J.S. Bach. However, the large majority of his compositions were lost in a fire after his death, so...

This "Venuti ending" device is a very common way to end a piece and you hear it much on 50s era jazz recordings. It is this

IIm7 V7 IIIm7b5 VI7(b9) one measure each chord.

This is...

Have mentioned these before, but last night we hit a real 'situation'. Arrived at a gig to find that the contractors who were supposed to have finished renovating and rebuilding the stage area had,...

Hi Ed,

I'm from New Orleans and have been playing jazz on stringed instruments professionally since 1972.

I'm happy you want to learn some swing music to go along with the other styles you and...

This circle of fifts shows the keys and their relative minor keys, they share notes.
So B minor is the relative minor of D major etc.
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I was able to entirely recover (and quickly) from tennis elbow on both arms. What worked for me was the RICE approach (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation).

The ice seemed to make a huge difference....

Probably the best known piece by the French Renaissance composer, Pierre Passereau, this Chanson has been arranged for mandolin quartet.

The chanson depicts two housewives chatting about their...

Jonah Horton! with Wayne Henderson. This kid gets better every time I see him.
Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9Ak87uWBw

W. A. Mozart (1786): 12 Horn Duos, K.487/496a
No. 4 Polonaise - 0:00
No. 10 Andante - 2:10
No. 2 Minuet (Allegretto) - 3:46
No. 5 Larghetto - 6:39
No. 11 Minuet - 8:44

These are five out of a...

A short, imitative Gigue for trio of 2 mandolins and guitar.

It also works as a duet for two mandolins, omitting the guitar.

A mandola part is also provided as an alternative to the 2nd...

...and very mandolin-like.
Cazes plays Waldir Azevedo's "Minhas Mãos meu Cavaquinho"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVnK9cvhnyk

I love this video arrangement from the article "The work of Italian luthier Corrado Giacomel featured on Fretboard Journal". So I thought I'd share it here.

enjoy

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JoeB made some wonderful contributions to this thread last year and I think post #66 nails it for me.
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Charles Wood was a British (Irish) composer, mainly of church music. He studied composition under G V Stanford and C H H Parry and consequently taught R Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells.

These...

Subscribe to her Google plus page, it is worth it. Such talent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=19&v=PwWeJpy9ehY

I found two crazy videos of Paul Buskirk playing something big, and good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIE3fAqgtIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivMSsF4gAEE

Bill, you're close ! It's a rendering of the piece using NOTION sequencing/score-writing software by PreSonus. It's cheaper than Sibelius and the 'built-in' sound samples are high quality, so it does...

Written for Piano in the 1970s as a demo. of sonata form for a group of students.

Re-arranged for mandolin quartet.

I have added tremolo to the recording, though I have not added tremolo...

Hi all,

Here is our latest Embergher Quintet video; this time you can watch and hear us perform the 1st movement, the Allegro moderato, of the Guitar Quintet in e minor by Luigi Boccherini...

Don't know if this has been posted before, but thought it worth posting again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBQqClRQGl8

I don't know why but I just found two notated versions on the same site, one in Dminor and one in Gminor.

Chorinho ao Luar - Dm

Chorinho ao Luar - Gm

Another option for a nylon string emando is the Epiphone Les Paul Ukulele which has been available for a number of years.
Passive piezo with no onboard controls, but a robust output.
AQUILA 31U...

Regardless if this is your style or not - it shows how much you can really do with a metronome.

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