I played a Godin for a few years in a sort of Jazz/Latin/World kind of band. It played easily and gave good control over volume and EQ. But in general I'm happier with a magnetic pickup than a...
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I played a Godin for a few years in a sort of Jazz/Latin/World kind of band. It played easily and gave good control over volume and EQ. But in general I'm happier with a magnetic pickup than a...
Sounds to me like very fine playing on all four instruments in the videos. Good music and good arrangements too, and a nice mandolin sound. (I'm another flat-top man.)
Thanks for posting! I...
For me, playing from notation, whether staff notation or tablature, IS ear-playing, in that you can't play the written notes properly until you recognize them in your mind as a sequence of musical...
I used to have his #254, also dated 1981. He must have been a fast worker.
Looks like an A5, but I'm not sure if he used Gibson numbers to identify his models.
If you want to sell it, put up...
Here it is, for the curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmaC4WwspS4&list=RDxmaC4WwspS4&start_radio=1
Tune starts out as four three-bar phrases in 3/4 (nine beats per phrase). Then, for...
You don't really need sheet music, let alone tablature; it's a very simple melody that uses only the notes of a one-octave major scale. Brubeck played it in C major, so it starts on the note E and...
Wow, twenty-two variations, and by a composer I've never heard of! Must give this a try in the morning. :)
Thanks, Jairo (and Sheri)!
Thank you Tavy for the photos and discussion. A few questions occur to me:
Your older mandolin has the 'window' peghead with the flower device on it. Is this the one that has the Italian label? ...
Very cool story! I wonder if our paths crossed back then— I was hanging around Lundberg's in that period. Also Campbell Coe's little shop on Haste, and Denis Grace's on Telegraph. I got my first...
Yeah, that flurry of harmonics was one of Grapelli's trademark moves. Playing with a bow you can bring out clearly even the higher harmonics (like the fifth and fourth fret guitar harmonics), and...
Maybe this outfit?
http://www.liuteriascala.com/
Great stuff! I just tried Andy's track for Bole Bole (it's one of the few I know from his list), and it works really well. Nice clean clear rhythmic playing, if a little more "backgroundy" than I...
Wow! That's a great site— seems to have over 1700 nice clean choro lead sheets, plus recordings. :)
Not to mention good photos of old C-melody saxophones. :cool:
Many thanks, David!
Nice job, Jairo! And thanks for the transcription, Bill-- it's nice to see the 7-string bass licks included.
Here's a version of Um a Zero I did years ago when I had a quartet with some great...
This makes sense. It's easier to read for guitarists who aren't used to reading up past the 12th fret.
(But the sound of course is an octave lower than it looks, as with all guitar music written...
Consider for example all the thousands of jazz guitarists and mandolinists who play tunes in every key up to five flats, chords, melody and improv. It's just a matter of learning the scales.
But...
Took me a few minutes to figure out that this N. Y. jazz club Smalls is not the old Harlem landmark Smalls Paradise, where lots of jazz giants played and recorded way back.
Still— should be a...
So Daniel, how did last night's class go?
We're hoping more :) than :disbelief:
Cannonball and Nat in a similar groove, same year. Simpler tune though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkN8nR0EEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkN8nR0EEg
Check out the classified ads here on Mandolin Cafe. That's the place for your ad.
And there's already another 1905 Embergher for sale there. :)
Actually in this case the "relative major" is Bb not Eb. The melody notes and the chord given (Cm 6/9) show us that the key in that passage (bars 5-7) is not C minor (three flats) but C dorian (two...
So the transcription is likely missing a tie between the two E's. Probably just a typo.
A few problems I see: the one-bar excerpt in your first post doesn't show a title, a clef. a key signature (should show a treble clef and three sharps) or a tempo. Nor do you say who made the...
First position works fine for the melody. I'd get some of the A's with fourth finger rather than open.
The sixteen-bar head (with the given chords) moves you through a series of keys:
1-4: "A...
Hmm, I can't help wondering (parenthetically) if that was the Flying V I heard Jimi playing at Winterland on a night when he was swapping sets with Albert King. Two Flying V's, two great left-handed...