Hey All,
My music teacher and I developed an Irish trad tunebook that we're putting out here for all to use. I know there’s already a few out there, but this one’s ours! It contains tabs and...
Hey All,
My music teacher and I developed an Irish trad tunebook that we're putting out here for all to use. I know there’s already a few out there, but this one’s ours! It contains tabs and...
It seems to me that Americans buy instruments to tinker with rather than play music on.
Dave H
And here I thought a paradoks = khaki pants :confused:
In late September last year, I nearly chopped off the index and middle fingers of my left hand with my table saw. The blade cut cleanly through the tendons, bone and nerves,leaving only some skin and...
Here are two tunes that are thematically linked, even though they are very different from each other. The link is that each tune celebrates a great comic actor who worked with Shakespeare.
Kemp's...
Some Elizabethan melancholy for guitar and mandolin.
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I think one could watch Fergal's videos all day. So much fun.
Here is one of my favorite tunes.
https://youtu.be/euezepZPO_w
Fergal is a great fiddler, but this mandolin video he did is just fantastic. It needs to be shared, so here it is:
https://youtu.be/ZPDpZUkR0CA
David
I learned a new word this week. Maybe it’s more familiar than I realized, but here it is, anyway.
https://colorinmypiano.com/2017/11/30/what-is-audiation-exactly/
It seemed like my last Renaissance arrangement for mandola was fairly well received, so I thought I'd share tonight's project. This is Almain by Robert Johnson, reharmonized and arranged for solo...
I just finished making another mandolin. I used Graham McDonald’s book as a guide.
This is the second one I have made using his book.
As a kid playing clarinet in band, I developed passable skills reading notation, but no ear skills at all to speak of. And we didn't have to memorize anything, either - even in marching band we had...
learn your dots or you never play complex music (release the penguins) https://lostinthecloud.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/faeries-aire.gif
more from John Stump here:...
Enjoy: 'Princess Royal' is the first single release - now available across all streaming and download platforms - taken from the album 'Carolan' by Simon Mayor (scheduled for release 10th March...
I've always thought this was a nice collection of simply arranged well- and lesser- known tunes.
Page 26 is a personal favorite. :grin:
https://pghardy.net/tunebooks/pgh_xmas_tunebook_paged.pdf
I think it’s important to work on one thing at a time. What really helped me was playing a lot of right hand exercises, with a metronome.
The hardest thing about mandolin, for me anyway, is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPaO9LkZ0vY
Here you go, Hank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6_DeTzYGHA
"The post on a Brekke Traditional bridge can't possibly turn in that design without major obvious damage to the saddle and probably to the bridge and the instrument itself."
That is true some of...
A person on a recording website offered to master tracks for people. I sent him this track and he worked some magic on it. He has multiple Pultecs and other tube gear that really added some goodness...
https://youtu.be/CZme5SwFJyI
This is rather lovely, there are two other videos in the series.
This tune goes all the way back to 1701 and is perhaps named for Sir Josiah Child (c. 1630-1699), a wealthy merchant who purchased the estate of Wanstead House in Essex in 1673. It is speculated...
I had to make another video of my arrangement of "El noi de la mare" on my mandolin built by Alfred Woll.
It's the model "Solista" (2021) with a new design - a small cutaway and neck joint at the...
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https://youtu.be/FqcVKoA6ZLs
Thought folks might enjoy seeing photos from an afternoon picking session over at Matt Ruhland's place yesterday (and a truck...
Dear mandolin friends around the world,
exactly two years ago, with New York City the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, I did what seemed to be the only reasonable thing to do at that moment:...