In the Chrome browser, add the Spotify Playback Speed extension. Then, when you want to slow down a song in Spotify, use the Spotify web version, not the app.
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In the Chrome browser, add the Spotify Playback Speed extension. Then, when you want to slow down a song in Spotify, use the Spotify web version, not the app.
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Fair enough; likewise I don't mind at all if people dislike tunes I like or vice versa. But I just haven't come across many Irish musicians looking down on or dismissing the tune when played in a...
Much easier to play fiddle tunes on mandolin. I think it's because you need to change strings with the pick much less often, and very rarely need to jump a string (due to the 5th tuning as pointed...
Nice tune! It has a very old fashioned sound (and that is very much a compliment!).
https://youtu.be/U3In9TUsdbo
I know what it means to be lonesome is one of my favorites for this progression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS2lFbBq1rc
I would say it depends what you mean by "Get by on it". This may not be what you meant but if someone says to me, "I can get by on guitar", I assume they're really a singer and play guitar to back up...
I've often thought that best of all would be an assistant who would hold the instrument in any position for you. And in an inconspicuous manner so as not to distract your audience.
Actually, I...
Without the doubled strings, a mandolin doesn't have much power IMO. You can hear this quite easily when you break a string in performance and have to keep going (or if you try playing a little...
It's interesting that the common key for a tune is not always the most suitable key for a particular instrument. Also, even playing the same notes in a different key can change the feel of the tune....
I have a mandolin made by Peter Coombe in December 2000. When I bought it (maybe 15 years ago), I emailed Peter and he told me the woods he'd used. I'm almost positive that he said it had an unusual...
Thanks for posting! How to play jigs (or anything else) is always an interesting topic to discuss, but I enjoy the discussion more if there are examples to listen to also.
You're going pretty fast...
DUDDUD just felt natural for me - I think it that it works that way for some people, just as for others a more free approach seems natural. I'm self-taught and never worked on picking patterns, but...
I forgot to point out that in the short clip I included, I play the first part of the Humours of Glendart (twice) using DUDDUD, and then play the first part again attempting as best I can to use...
You started playing in June 2020 - you're sounding great for six months playing! Cheers.
Here's an attempt to illustrate the difference between DUDDUD and DUDUDU.
It's NOT a fair example, as I use DUDDUD mostly for jigs and therefore I'm better at playing that way. But I think it does...
Sessions! Just playing in a session will be great, but aside from the enjoyment of playing music with others there's the additional random element:
- Going to sessions where you don't know anyone...
Certainly wouldn't suggest my practice is a model for everybody, but on tenor banjo (similar scale length) I find that I use mandolin fingering unless:
- The tune requires notes on first fret (e.g....
Good luck with it. I find myself that above 105-110 bpm, I pretty much have to use forearm movement. And, like you, I have to drop the number of ornaments at the higher speeds too. Let us know how it...
I do recognize that many great players play with only wrist motion, but there are some great players who don't. Why don't they? I don't know but I do think it's possible that not everyone can play...
Everybody's different so for me... you only need to feel that this mandolin is sufficient to satisfy the criteria you had when you started looking. And I've had quite a few instruments over the years...
I'm very interested to hear of this approach. I've been experimenting with it, and while I find the sequence more difficult than D-U-U, I can see how it might be possible to play much faster and more...
Nice jig! Very close relation to the jig Father O'Flynn (also I think called The Top of The Cork Road).
A video of an online set I did for the Irish Pastoral Center, an organization in San Francisco. There are quite a few songs/tunes but if you go to YouTube and watch it there, the first post gives...
Hi Folks,
Just thought I'd let you know in case any of you might be interested. I'm playing for an hour on Zoom this Sunday at 4pm PST (midnight in Ireland, sorry!). I'll be playing mandolin and...