Wow!
Thanks for sharing these tracks..Gimble never ceases to amaze! This Buffalo Twist from 1964 is evidence of how consistent Johnny's electric mandolin-tuned-like-a mandola sound was...
Wow!
Thanks for sharing these tracks..Gimble never ceases to amaze! This Buffalo Twist from 1964 is evidence of how consistent Johnny's electric mandolin-tuned-like-a mandola sound was...
Jethro had a bit he would do every so often, something like "Jethro, what do you call that instrument you play?.....I call it Bruce."
One time the Jethro Burns Quartet played at University of...
Oh my goodness! What great slice of history and Jethrology, chock full of insights into the brilliant artistry, craft, and business of Homer and Jethro. Also chill producing moments as they recount...
things i've looked for, no particular order:
headroom:
particularly if you're amplifying an 8 string (acoustic or electric), things get crunchy real fast with low powered things..10...
Wow Tom!
going for the "Freddie thing" on a mandolin has more to do with touch, chord voicings, and rhythm pattern(s) struck than which type of mandolin used, allthough
I would not recommend an oval hole...
there are various ways to codify the groups of tones(scales, modes,etc) that yield a blues sound.."blues scale", "minor pentatonic", etc. It seems that blue tones, common to various rows of tones are...
Truly knowledgable, personable, funny, always ready to share and encourage, great player, singer, writer, photographer, author and gentleman.
My almost 40 year friendship with Dix happened mostly...
Wonderful!
I can relate to that bursting into tears moment. That's what happened to me when I heard Elisa play at the Mandolin Symposium years ago. She made a special presentation playing...
I was just trying to point out that the mandolin techniques and musical concepts Aaron shares can be applied to any style or genre, not just jazz...
what I dig about Aaron's playing and teaching is he puts so many possibilities on display, both musically and mandolinistically. For instance:
there's more than one way to play any given chord
...
Ginny was wonderful to work with...patient, thorough, encouraging, and upbeat.For more than a decade Mandolin Magazine brought attention to all kinds of mandolin players and luthiers along with...
Check out a new interview and performance by Don(with guitarist Andy Brown)on
"Judy Carmichael’s Jazz Inspired" on NPR stations August 6-12 (check local listings),
or on your favorite podcast...
Matt,
a little late to the party, sorry, but I dig your Swing 42 post! i noticed a couple things and wonder what your take is on:
When referring to a tune form as Rhythm Changes,...
minor ii-V-i's are often sounded with alterations (b5,#5,b9,#9) added to the dominant chord. This yields a cadence that sounds more minor, jazzlike, and chromatic..also suggests a different set of...
https://acousticdisc.com/podcast/
Chop tips
left hand puts down the notes. careful not to squeeze too hard or let your palm cover the neck or let your thumb come up over and around onto the board.
when the right hand...
Hi Nick!
lots of good answers here. I hope the following random observations add to the clarity rather than the confusion:
When we think of 7th chords as symbolized say G7, C7,...
no argument intended, but...
for discussion let's remove what music is being played, style, ethnicity, experience level of the player, and just look at the mechanical and visual aspects...
A truly great musician, wonderful gentleman, positive, cheerful, generous spirit. At the camps he would be called upon to accompany all the artists, in every style. his beautiful sense of rhythm and...
dear original poster,
for clean tone production, check your left hand for how you address the mandolin. There are as many approaches to this as there are mandolin players, so have your...
assuming the B7b9 leads to the Em as in Autumn Leaves, that voicing that is effectively a diminished chord is what you want. Alan's voicing puts the b9 pitch on the bottom. Remember that the...
Caught an old movie the other night that may be of interest to fans of the jazz and also the mandolin!
It's "Second Chorus", from 1940, starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, and Burgess...
hello again Bhiyao,
Yes go for the chords. Here's a couple tips that may help:
The challenge in chordal rhythmic accompaniment is not the formation of a new chord--we look at a...