I'm not sure of the name of the tunes but one of them must have been, "Hey, Can You Close That Door?" At least that's what the family kept calling out as I was playing it.:p
I'm not sure of the name of the tunes but one of them must have been, "Hey, Can You Close That Door?" At least that's what the family kept calling out as I was playing it.:p
Rick in Memphis
See Saw Waltz
A Minor Waltz
Russian Marzurka
(All great mandolin tunes composed by William Place Jr.)
Jonathan R.
"Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one." Duke Ellington
In the Garden
Blowin' in the Wind --- Did that one because I wanted to play the harmonica part w/it.
Spartan Fight Song --- Learned it a couple of years before I went there for school.. but the OLD book that we got it out of had it listed as "The AGGIE FIGHT SONG" from pre-Spartan days when it was the 'Fighting Aggies' all the way. If any of you are from Lansing or went to MSU, you'll probably get a chuckle!
HarmonyRexy
"...On the banks of the Red Cedar...!" Takes me back to my childhood, growing up in E.L. A Spartan fan forever.
<span style='color:purple'>Golden Slippers</span>
<span style='color:red'>Soldiers Joy</span>
<span style='color:orange'>Ashokan Farewell</span>
Amazing Grace (Mel Bay pocket book came with the case)
Fade Away by the V-Roys
Red Haired Boy.
Funny how you can remember this stuff. (And then St. Anne's Reel, and then Arkansas Traveller....)
R
Thanks cafe... #This thread just made me smile with memories from 30 years ago and my dad teaching me my first three tunes...Devils Dream, Ragtime Annie and Golden Slippers. #
Andy Hodge
red haired boy
wayfairing stranger
steampowered aereoplane
Sailors Hornpipe
Arkansas Traveler
3rd tune = ??
I learned these in the 70's from a thin mando tab book. I can't remember who the author was It had a yellow cover and drawing/painting of a guy playing mando on the cover. I think I bought an accompaning full sized instruction LP that had all the tunes in the book on it.
COPPERHEAD ROAD
BILLY (DYLAN)
WORRIED MAN BLUES
home in time for supper with some tales to tell
I honestly can't recall(?!#). The exuberance of youth ; the ravages of time ; too many nights, lights, cigarette smoke, liqour and women... - Ya' know..., at times I sure miss those days.... Well, anyhow... Moose.
Redemption Song -- Bob Marley
The Golden Triangle -- The Austin Lounge Lizards
Wilhelmus von Nassouwe -- the national anthem of the Netherlands (no kidding!)
Brian T. Walker
Down beside the Alamo
In the Lone Star State
"Ignorance is when you don't know something and somebody finds it out."
-- Kenneth "Jethro" Burns
She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain
Amazing Grace
Banks Of The Ohio
soldiers joy
old joe clark
golden slippers
Worried Man Blues.
Crooked Creek.
Sittin' Alone In the Moonlight.
"Red Haired Boy"
"Uncle Pen"
"Blackberry Blossom"
Sally Gooden
Blackberry Blossom
Amazing Grace
Will Hardy
Ithaca Strings Instruments
Mowry Custom Four String Electric OM (2 years or so)
Ran into this thread, thought I might revitalize it
Amazing Grace
Cindy (Mandolessons - your first song)
Arkansas Traveler (for my brother)
Sue
Whatever the first three in the Jack Tottle book were. Arkansas Traveler, probably Cripple Creek, maybe Blackberry Blossum.
Ba, Ba, Black Sheep
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Maids of the Morne Shore (tune used with Yeats' Sally Gardens)
As I was mid 50's when I started, you might ask why nursery rhymes?
I had no previous musical experience.
I had to decide on tab or staff, and settled on staff because so much more music is available in that format.
I had bought a cheap starter set with a Simon Mayor (UK) tutor, which good as it was, only uses his own tunes, which I didn't know.
I needed tunes which I already knew, and we all have a wealth of them in our brains - nursery rhymes. So I ordered a book of piano music, and sat down.
Just beginning, first I had to work out the notes and then the fingering: D D A A. Lights lit up, and I was on my way!
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John
Social Groups: FFcP, A Song-a-Week
ABC. Notation for the tabophobic: ABC intro, ABCexplorer, Making Music with ABC Plus by Guido Gonzato.
FFcP: Just do it! (Any genre, (Honest!) just ignore the jazz references.)
Eastman 604, 2007 | Thomas Buchanan Octave Mandolin, 2010
I don't know what was third. First two were Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Followed by Good King Wenceslas, which was also my first experience of learning to play by ear. A lot of trial and error involved, until I discovered where to find the fingering to give the note I wanted. The first phrase is incredibly simple, requiring just one fingered note from the left hand, the rest being open strings.
Come to think about it, does playing a scale while you sing out, "Do Re Mi....." count?
On Mandolin:
Angeline the Baker
Cluck Old Hen
Golden Slippers
I'm such a hack, I still play them anytime I play and have recently found my timing is way off on the B part of Golden Slippers, so I'm back to using the metronome on it. ACK!
Thanks
Several mandolins of varying quality-any one of which deserves a better player than I am.......
Flowers of Edinburgh
Red Haired Boy
Over The Waterfall
2023 A. Lawrence Smart A5
2022 Girouard Griffith Tribute A5
2021 Ellis F5 Special
2021 Girouard Concert Master F Oval-hole
2020 Heiden Artist Plus A5
1992 Givens A6
1919 Martin Style C
If I recall correctly, I first learned Brown Eyed Girl, then Old Joe Clark, then Billy in the Lowground.
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