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...
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...
I spent some time in the Archive.org rabbit hole listening to some live recordings and found this Gem from Prescott Park in 2016. The source is from the soundboard and the sound quality and playing...
Just came across this impressive video, with Mike Marshall playing and directing the orchestra. I assume that they're on tour elsewhere. Other videos have women, including, I believe, Caterina...
Just a heads up to the OP - we don't call them "jam sessions" over here, just sessions (ye might get a funny look if you walked in somewhere and asked if they had "jam sessions" there ), also...
I came upon this version of an Italian tune, I must admit I really enjoyed the mandolin style, where I find the tremolo technique and result to be very different from that of "American" mandolin in...
Just to add a final note to the survey I posted above:
A response from my query to Dogal:
Dear Mr Barti,
our strings for Mandoloncello are developed on Italian mandoloncello round back with...
We've had a couple of discussions of this back in 2015, and at that time I also tried my hand (more or less successfully) on recording movements from K.77, K.83, K.88, K.89 and K.90 on mandolin.
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As some will know, Aidan Crossey has had some major health issues recently. Today he was taken into hospital for tests and possible surgery. (Not confidential information - he announced it on the...
Another great version of this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXqlJ0Zydc
-David
This is one of the all-time great tunes in ANY genre and it's cool to hear all these interpretations. Here's my band rehearsing the tune for our show a couple months back at the Freight & Salvage...
AndyC who used to post regularly here put up this set of backing tracks on SoundCloud back in 2015. I think he played all instruments. He was quite diffident about the tracks at the time - I'm no...
I also adjusted the pick up angle on The El Rey but the top E still sounds a bit thinner and more plinky to my ears in live situations for jazz Manouche.
However these improntu sessions usually...
Hey Fretbear, thank you for posting my YouTube video of the Don Brown Loar. I hope you liked it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ee3X2-AXW4
There's a lot of good stuff to work on there. It will take me a lot of practice before I am able to put up any kind of half-way decent attempt.
Hope you don't mind, Perry, but I had to put them...
I took some correspondence lessons form John way back when. I recently came across the original sheets he mailed me. They were done in pencil. I decided to re-scan them and share here. Some nice...
If like me you are interested in adapting Joe Venuti's jazz violin solos for mandolin, you could be interested in the book JOE VENUTI - NEVER BEFORE...NEVER AGAIN.
It has what look to be very...
Hey there,
ICYMI: Yesterday's Mandolin Monday - Apitius Mandolin x 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORYOx3V2Ww
The above video was from a reunion concert, judging by the ages of Robin and Mike. Here's the same song from earlier when the Incredible String Band was still active. Robin is a...
Here's a short clip of the Scottish musician/singer/songwriter, Robin Williamson, playing mandolin. Move cursor to 1:20.
If the links don't work search YouTube for "The Incredible String Band -...
It was on this day in 1877 that Thomas Edison first demonstrated the phonograph, so to celebrate, here I am recording on a cylinder at the Edison Studio in NJ. It's a piece I learned by ear off of a...
OK so we all knew he could play mandolin, but rarely seen, this clip of Whippersnapper from 1984 has Swarb tearing it up on mandolin, some great m'cello action later on too...
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https://www.celticconnections.com/event/1/the-bothy-band
I can hardly believe I'm writing this, but the Bothy Band are to appear at Celtic Connections on 22nd January in Glasgow, Scotland.
Matt...
Fanner Thinline Tenor Tele - Double P90 pickups, 22.8" scale length, Maple neck, Alder body with white top binding, Fender locking tuners and a translucent duck egg finish.
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Yesterday, I read about Sheri Mignano Crawford's biography of Carlos Curti, Game of Hearts. That made me remember, that I once had ordered his mandolin method.
No.29, Maestoso seemed playable for...