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A fun gig was had last week, here's a short clip of us playing Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

You can click through and see the full video, as well (song names and timestamps in the...

Okay I have no idea why the video embed doesn't work, but here's the video link again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdTnrxEp12E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4lz35UmUps

Note: the pickup / preamplifier on the mandolin is a custom design by me.

This cute little piece is written for pizzicato strings, mandolin, and voice (listen here).
I arranged it for my guitarist and myself, although unfortunately we have no one to perform the vocal...

My cover band covering yet another band.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6-7TkAp-NA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLOTEd5d5IY

https://youtu.be/-xzhj2KisVA

"Jesu bleibet meine Freude" is an excerpt from Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (BWV 147) by J. S. Bach. A proper rendition of the piece is here (timestamp...

Thank you!



For several years I used to use regular guitar strings (heavy for a mandolin) so I tuned down a full tone to reduce the tension.
I also discovered that I enjoyed the lower tone,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1HR6UhXNp4

That's me on mandolin; the guitar and flute sounds are synthesized from MuseScore, until such time as I get to perform it for real.

I mostly use my...

Happy New Year, all :-)

Song names and timestamps in the description, and marked as navigable 'chapters' in the YouTube video.
Worth mentioning that I built the pickup on my mandolin and viola,...

A short snippet of Dave Brubeck's famous composition from the end of one of our practice sessions.

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So I had a gig on Friday and we played our rendition of Faith by George Michael (timestamp 1h33m in the attached video).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nclh50pnJns&t=5580s

For the curious,...

Here's the tutorial I made for anyone trying to learn it on solo mandolin.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXiUKRlUfE4

Yep, I redesigned it from the ground up about 3 times, even before the tedious work of adding the notation/tab images in v3. Took me a few weeks, oof. Pandemic lockdown certainly helped lol
And true...

I've always struggled with scales and modes so I made this tool for myself a year ago.

The chromatic circle of notes (not the circle of fifths!), with a movable pattern overlaid on top to show the...

Another short but sweet two-part Invention.


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

This is such a short piece but it is one of our favourites. Enjoy.


https://youtu.be/pc0Rf0BVGtM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhr2D6AZSy4

Guitar: Joy Dawson
Mandolin: ohnoitsalobo


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

Mandolin: ohnoitsalobo
Guitar: Sylvester Dawson


https://youtu.be/z8qjBacJ_4E

I am able to play Skyfall accurately in the original key (Cm) because my mandolin is tuned to F C G D (whole step lower), so I'm playing all my chords in the shape of Dm.
Notice the correct chords...

I think the web-app is pretty much finished! Or I hope it is, anyway ... I've spent altogether too much time on it the past week or so in fine-tuning, and writing up the text descriptions.

Here's...

mandocrucian, there's no need to be condescending. My post was a self-burn, I think you missed that. Talk about cheap shots ... read what I wrote. I said "people have been learning modes like this...

lol I get what you're saying, but it wasn't aimed at Mr Niles, it was aimed at the textual format itself.

Modes tend to be an advanced topic - as well as Mr Niles' page is written it is not an...

I did this arrangement a few years ago. This is a more recent recording and significantly better quality.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZwJQr5oxi8