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Jamie,

I am a Rise Up Singing devotee' and have been for years. I even got the companion tapes at one time, tho they are long lost now. I will have to dig it out again, it has been buried too...

I have been working to learn the OT Fiddle repertoire that is played in the jams here, but the one thing most lacking are songs. While I am loving getting the fiddle tunes under my fingers, I sorely...

Although I have had my mandolin for about 4 years, I really hadn't started playing it until this past year. I will be 53 in May !! Am having tons of fun even though the learning curve is steep....

Look, really it is simple !!! The only way and I mean the only way that you will get better playing in front of people, is to put yourself in that position, over and over and over. Yes, practice is...

Tch tch...no one mentioned the classic Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem and their multitudinous albums focused on the Irish folksongs. Although primarily song based rather than tune based, some of...

Depends on what you are wanting to play. If you are looking for chords to a ton of old time tunes and a few Celtic tunes. Then you can download the Pegram Jam Chordbook. Click on the left side of the...

Hiya Steve,

Here is the website with the HiFi WMA Splitter Joiner HiFi Homepage. I use it in conjunction with another program I downloaded to convert the split files to MP3, though I could use...

Just an aside for handling those long large files. I have a little Olympus recorder that I have used to record jam sessions. Often I will have recorded 3 to 4 hours continous. I googled and found a...

Martin,

Wow !!! The Blind Mary clip with nickelharpa and harp guitar is phenomenal !! What an incredible job of arranging and playing with such a unique sound!!! Thank you for pointing me/us to...

Martin,

Thanks for posting those....am really liking .....well.....all 3 of them http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Any ideas what speed each tune should be...

I got Possum from the Portland Collection and it is written in the Key of G.


Harlan

Dadgumit Shaun, you're learning all my new tunes....am loving the Possum...have yet to teach it to Bern, but that is coming soon. Don't ya just love that Pig's Foot !!! Fun tunes....even better names...

Hi Shaun,

Bern and I have been playing Pig's foot pretty regularly. Don't know if Molsky's version is the same, but I had found it at a website, which I cannot remember at the moment, but will...

I am having the same problem with the Concertina ABC converter. Sure would be good to know what a fix is !!!

Harlan

Planning your practice time and scheduling is important for progress. Much of how you develop your schedule will be dependent on what your goals are, but also need to feed the musical muse within...

Sing Out has a book Rise Up Singing that has the lyrics and chords to a ton of songs, including a huge selection of childrens songs. Great book to have around the house. You can find it here.
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Revisiting this thread as I am going to play a session this evening. So much to learn, but so fun to keep at it. Learning in dribs and drabs but progress is happening. Since this will be an extremely...

I don't know if that recording lives on the web any more. Benig(Michael Geimer) posted that back when we had a great beginners group in the cafe. At that time we had a webpage through Yahoo( I think)...

Roger,
Thanks for those links to your articles !!! The way you have the bare bones of the tune set up with ornaments added later, really helps me to be able to start seeing how ornamentation is/can...

Agreed that it is great to see the Clark bros win !! They are much better musicians than they were able to showcase on television. The format almost worked against them. However, their arrangements...

Mele Kalikimaka Jim and Cafe'er's,

No mando, nor accessories under my tree, but music is in the air. Will travel today(short 90 min drive) to attend brother and sisters Eve party from whence we...

Crikey Curt, how could I forget sundressed, long-haired hirsute men.....lol.

Paul, do you have any links to either Alan Jabour's writings or Tom Sauber. I googled both but could not find much...

I am not a musician. I visit this little corner of the cafe most every day. I look forward to the discussions in here for the most part, because of the incredible expertise and breadth of knowledge...

I just read the Mike Seeger article !!! Thanks !! Interesting, especially because I had this same discussion with the leader of an old time jam just this week. He is a Clifftop fiddle contest winner...

Gosh, I want a Harlan !!!

Harlan