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this takes you to the Discography and Podcast page on Peter's site

https://www.peterostroushko.com/?fbclid=IwAR3P6RdmrwdBpolg-BRBA3FCFX8Lge5WWXRHM02JTSX5W_ll0fPuPEF-GBQ

Peter could play anything on the mandolin(also fiddle and guitar)and play it at master level. He did an awful lot to showcase and popularize the mandolin, his versatility and virtuosity showing us...

more random observations

Lester Young is credited hear and there with pointing out that knowing the LYRICS to a tune is another essential component of successful improvisation.

Charlie...

Hi Gary,
the hyphen seperates measures, each having four beats. The backslash cuts one measure in half, each chord getting two beats. These are not correct universally accepted...

Hi Gary,
the great thing about playing the mandolin(greatest instrument in the world) is that by virtue of being tuned in fifths, the layout of the fretboard, scale, mode and chord...

re-reading the original post I see the poster was asking for suggestions of tunes, and coming from a flat-pick fiddle backround. So here comes a bunch of that. Not to suggest that the book and...

online program from the Twin Cities hosted by Tony Ihrig (High 48's) and Mother Banjo

Friday, Nov. 6th at 4:00 Central

guest Don Stiernberg chooses 5 tracks from his 2013 release...

The way many musicians understand chords and progressions is via harmonized scales. Basically what happens is we begin with a scale, let's use Bb as per your question:
...

Hey Daniel!
Thanks for your kind words, and embedding the video.
Yeah so that's a Stevens Electrical Instruments(Michael Stevens) "Paul Glasse" model directly into a Quilter amp which...

DSQ plays "Freight Trane"(Tommy Flanagan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFWV3zYgO4

here's anothern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iOXm5s23bA

Hi Barry!
the old red two point is a Nugget..no real criteria for choosing amongst the mandos, just subjective considerations like "this might be fun". Maybe some genre considerations as...

means "We are here" or "We are there", so here we are


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iOXm5s23bA

thanks all,
tunes added yesterday include Nectarine, Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home(played on the Stevens 5 string electric), It's You Or No One, Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, It Could...

I'm playing an Apitius Yorkville Jazz in a video just posted over in the jazz board..."DSQ Plays Nectarine"

first of another small batch of videos just put up..if you dig please subscribe

yes the tune is from Jazz Mandolin Appetizers

the mandolin is a "Yorkville Jazz" by Oliver Apitius

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here's some tips:
what you have now is a combination of mandola(bottom four strings)and mandolin(top four). The challenge from the luthier side is that mandolas use a longer fret scale than...

these Real Book memories and observations have me jumping back in to kind of underline the word NEW in my suggestion of The New Real Book, volumes 1,2,3 by Sher Music..they are very different from...

there's a lot of them! I like The New Real Book by Sher Music Co. There are 3 volumes. They also publish other cool fakebooks("The Latin Fakebook")and tutorials( "Serious Jazz Practice Book, Drop 2...

Every ten years or so I'll post some new videos to my ancient YouTube channel,page, (whatev) This one here is an old Burke/Van Heusen number, played by everybody from Bing Crosby to Miles Davis. If...

in my experience on the 5-string electric, I'll usually "comp"(grab chords for accompaniment) in the mandola range of the five, lower four C-G-D-A. i've heard my friend and electric mando hero Paul...

Bravo!Let's raise a glass and a mandlin and a pick and salute Danial Patrick, terrific mandolin player, interviewer, podcaster, and wonderful gentleman. Here's to the next 100 episodes!

I've been a fan of Howard Levy since I don't know when, allthough it might have started when Jethro himself said "Donnie you know who the best mandlin player is? It's Howard Levy! I'm just glad he...

thanks all
great suggestions, I'll see what we can do...

Man oh man, All the Things You Are?? That one's got a LOT of chords! Or as Johnny Gimble once said.."It's got...

Joe's passing has caused me to think back on all the various brilliant artists I got to see and hear up close at the Showcase. Let's see, Joe Pass (a few times)Buddy deFranco(with Terry Gibbs and...