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I know what feels right when I'm dancing; but I'm having trouble translating that into playing. Somehow, I've never managed to monitor the speed with a metronome in mid heugh!...

A question for those of you who play in ceilidh bands: how fast, in bpm, would you play a reel for dancing? What about a jig? It maybe varies from dance to dance, so let's say the Eightsome Reel and...

It's worth remembering that jigs are, fundamentally, dance tunes. DUD DUD gets the rhythm that helps the dancers.

"As I take a long draft from my glass
Oh, I'm drinking alone here again
And I try not to think of my lass
For the old days will ne'er come again
And if time was a thing man could buy
All the...

If you think the Dead Sea Scrolls are an Israeli string band.

If you can spell Baldassssarr...Baldaassa...Bllladaarra. Butch.

I too play in a praise band, with a variety of other instruments. I've found that playing the tunes single note style is usually pointless because it sounds thin and no-one hears it. I think of what...

The picture is of him playing a Fylde Touchstone; and the Fylde website tells the story a bit differently (www.fyldeguitars.com) :
"Ritchie Blackmore, lead guitarist of the legendary Band Deep...

Only one is difficult. How about one at a time? Dagger's "Frozen River". Kevin McLeod and Alec Finns' "Polbain to Oranmore". Hom Bru's "Rowin Foula Doon".

Alastair

I've been away from access to the message Board for a few days and have just checked back on this thread, which I started. Thanks to all who have responded and especially to Big Joe who, contrary to...

The Janet Davis Web site says "From the lowest to the highest priced models, the differences between Gibson mandolins are essentially cosmetic. The A is the same body as the F model, but without the...

I use a fairly cheap Korg. It calibrates so when I'm practicing with a friend whose piano is tuned a bit flat, I can make the adjustment. The aim is to be in tune. Tuning by tuner or ear is only a...

The tunes were always round me. My grandfather was a piper (he served with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers during the First World War - the pipe band acted as stretcher-bearers under fire) and my...

Pattroglyph cited "The Stool of Repentance" and "Dunse Dings A'". For what it's worth, these are Scots tunes. The stool of repentance was the seat at the front of the church that folks caught...

In Scotland, St Anne's Reel is quite often teamed up with Willafjord.

Alastair

I had a similar problem on the A string on a Fylde Touchstone and fixed it at very little cost with a Weber Wood Nymph. Follow the link from the Cafe home page and go to "Products".

Alastair

I'm satisfied with a McIntyre Feather run through a Marshall ED1 Compressor and a Fishman GII pre-amp into an AER Compact 60 (which has a DI outlet but gives me control over my EQ and a monitor...

A bit faster than Amazing Grace but not quite as fast as a march.

Alastair

I understand that one or the other indicates an illegitimacy somewhere in the ancestry. The man I knew who got worked up about it spelled his "Mac", so I suspect that "Mc" is the dodgy one. The fact...

Or go to the CoMando link here on Mandolin Cafe and subscribe from there. The quantity of mail isn't THAT bad.

Alastair

I bought a copy last week. Highly recommended. Very tasty playing and singing.

Alastair

For this kind of mix, have a listen to some Lindisfarne - try their Promenade album - or anything by Run Rig (no mando but very much a traditional/rock blend). But why do you feel the need to add...