Slow, sweet songs

[maxr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c191UCP89xw

Neil Gow’s Lament on the Death of His Second Wife

I'd add to that Neil Gow's Lament for his brother Donald, it's less know but I think just as good. I think Donald was Neil's cellist, and Neil nearly gave up performing when he died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEPf1rDrJI

[GChris]

I've really enjoyed learning this one:
https://johnreischman1.bandcamp.com/track/sarafina

Beautiful tune. Is there a place to purchase the tab for it?

[maxr]

Beautiful tune. Is there a place to purchase the tab for it?

http://en.scorser.com/S/Sheet+music/Sarafina/-1/1.html

[apache]

You can take John Reischman's online Melodic Mandolin Tunes course on Peghead Nation which provides the sheet music in tab and standard notation, and he'll also teach you to play it . You can pay monthly, and there are several other really nice melodic tunes in there as well. I don't believe the link posted above is for this piece. Good luck!

[John Soper]

"Georgia on my Mind" is "Just an old sweet song" - and usually played at a slower pace than breakdown speed.

[j. condino]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkO4OSc2Tl0

[Mandobart]

Josefin's Dopvals by Roger Tollroth of Väsen is a beautiful sweet, easy to play song. He wrote it for his niece's baptism.

[bigskygirl]

You can always take a fiddle tune you know and put it in 3/4 time, a good practice exercise as well since it takes a moment to wrap your head around the different time signature. I heard someone play Rawhide like this and it sounded great.

[pops1]

You can always take a fiddle tune you know and put it in 3/4 time, a good practice exercise as well since it takes a moment to wrap your head around the different time signature. I heard someone play Rawhide like this and it sounded great.

We used to do this when playing for dances and ran out of waltzes. Take the next tune on the list and waltz it. Yes good practice.

[CarlM]

You can always take a fiddle tune you know and put it in 3/4 time, a good practice exercise as well since it takes a moment to wrap your head around the different time signature. I heard someone play Rawhide like this and it sounded great.

Steel guitarist Tom Brumley and Buck Owens Buckaroos did a song called Neosho Waltz which did that to Dear Old Dixie.

[mikerofone]

Pretty much any of the tunes on Tone Poems. As a life long guitar player fairly new to mandolin, I'm finding some of these songs (Prisoner's Waltz, Banks of the Ohio) to be great for sinking my teeth into as someone still fairly limited skills.

[Michael H Geimer]

Revisited Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum's Tramps and Hawkers driving back from hiking Red River Gorge. No mando in this vid, but I'd happily steal every one of Laurie's fiddle fills! Also worth staying to the end to hear their harmonies on the last verse.

[Dick Dery]

Valse Frontenac
http://www.mustrad.udenap.org/partitions/TQ154.jpg

[Mike Scott]

Moon River
Yesterday
In My Life
Here There and Everywhere
Thumhiar Dom De Lah (SIC)

[ZachBon]

One of your songs caught my eye... Remember When. Do you have music for that or did you learn by ear? Thanks.

[NDO]

One of your songs caught my eye... Remember When. Do you have music for that or did you learn by ear? Thanks.

I learned the intro by ear and by asking for some help on here. The chords I got from ultimate guitar.

It was actually the song that made me decide to try mandolin instead of guitar as my first stringed instrument a year and a half ago. I always loved that intro.

[Denny Gies]

I love the Wednesday Night Waltz.

[Marc Katz]

I recently learned the Old Dog Waltz by Rich Zimmerman of FY5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-cnelRE-w

[Steve Finlay]

Un Canadien Errant (Quebec folk song). Also Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago.

[GDAE]

Ashokan Farewell, from Ken Burns' Civil War series.

[TimothyMurphy]

Does anyone know where I can locate mandolin
tabs for Poor Boys Delight? I have been enjoying playing this one chords/lyric's, but having trouble coming up with picking the melody. Thanks, Tim

[Joshua Ryan]

Dirty Old Town originally by Ewan MacColl and popularized by The Dubliners and The Pogues is a good one

I also recently got turned onto Alfie's version of Jubilee. It's an old Irish tune collected by Jean Ritchie. Both are slower and sweet sounding to me, if a little melancholy.

Also a Mando version of Ripple or Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead would be nice.

[steve in tampa]

Many versions of this song out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYeoF5ymXA

[lowtone2]

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