Ondrej Sarek, who is a member here on the cafe, has written a lot of books for CGDA tenor mandola. I have not seen them all but those I have are very good.
Ondrej Sarek, who is a member here on the cafe, has written a lot of books for CGDA tenor mandola. I have not seen them all but those I have are very good.
All you need to get good audio results is a USB condenser microphone. They are not cheap but are easy to use; just plug it into your laptop, adjust the sound settings so the USB mike is being used...
Singing a tune is the best way to memorise it. Kenny Hall, who was blind and could not rely on any written material, used to make up simple lyrics to instrumental tunes to help him remember them. A...
Matthew Prater appears in the Godrich and Dixon discography under T C Johnson Groups. They think Johnson played guitar on The Blue Boys sides. Here is one definitely by Prater and Hayes though:...
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Blind Willie Johnson.
This one is definitely about the Spanish Flu.
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Elder Curry with Elder Charles Beck on piano. Commentators are divided as to whether this song relates to an influenza outbreak in Memphis in 1929 or is harking back to the Spanish Flu...
Best of luck to you for the operation - get better soon.
Israel is part of Eurovision because it, with Jordan Lebanon Syria and the northern part of Saudi Arabia, are in the European Broadcasting Area which also incudes parts of North Africa hence...
These two sides were recorded on 25th October 1928, not in the 1940s. The accompaniment is described as "unknown mandolin" and I think from listening to the vocals and accompaniment it is highly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRl-cm8SwD4&list=PLgXNoqV_WC-FN_JpOdK7opAj3aQw3Du9q&index=1
Here is Soldiers Joy - an old chestnut played as you have never heard it before.
I love that Clara smith track - she was a great blues singer. In addition to the mandolin and guitar there is supposed to be a kazoo backing her but it sounds more like a swanee whistle to me.
Thanks for posting this - I had never heard of Clarence Conaway before.
According to Godrich & Dixon the accompanists on the Ida Cox track were the Pruitt twins and I think this is correct as it was...
Is there a bar and, if so. opening and closing times.
If anyone wants to just play some chord melodies without struggling through complicated theory I recommend "Just for Fun - Swing Jazz Mandolin" published by Alfred. These are great arrangements of...
Sorry you can't see them Ranald. They have all been auto-generated by YouTube here in England (how that happens I have no idea). Crawdad fades out after just a minute which maybe implies it is...
And here is "Crawdad"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfKXGRs-1zM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL_O6nPG0Vg
Here is "Garbage Man Blues"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db8VFXf6jmA
Here is "Waiting just for you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnywoS8u-FU
Here is Kym Warner playing for the Mandolin Mondays blog on12th February. He switches between hybrid, flatpicking and fingerpicking
Mike Marshall points out that these Bach pieces are very often written with a great bassline. If you can identify the bassline and work out fingerings so the bass notes ring out or are emphasised in...
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Francis and Day's mandoline tutor has exactly what you are looking for; all the chords in notation and with fingering diagrams. I will try to scan them for you on Monday.
According to Godrich & Dixon (2nd Edition) Will Weldon played guitar on a few early Memphis Jug Band tracks but the only one where mandolin features is the one you mentioned "You may leave but this...
Sorry to hear of your illness and wish you a speedy recovery. Looking forward to more B S & R as soon as you're up to it.
The pig and the mandolin is a great story. My family has a similar story but in reverse.
Apparently my Granny (sometime in the early1930s) owned a mandolin and one day my father, who must have been...