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
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
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!
"Georgia on my Mind" is "Just an old sweet song" - and usually played at a slower pace than breakdown speed.
Josefin's Dopvals by Roger Tollroth of Väsen is a beautiful sweet, easy to play song. He wrote it for his niece's baptism.
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.
Northfield F5M #268, AT02 #7
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.
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.
Valse Frontenac
http://www.mustrad.udenap.org/partitions/TQ154.jpg
Moon River
Yesterday
In My Life
Here There and Everywhere
Thumhiar Dom De Lah (SIC)
Thanks
Several mandolins of varying quality-any one of which deserves a better player than I am.......
One of your songs caught my eye... Remember When. Do you have music for that or did you learn by ear? Thanks.
Loar LM-110-BRB Honey Creek A-Style
I love the Wednesday Night Waltz.
I recently learned the Old Dog Waltz by Rich Zimmerman of FY5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-cnelRE-w
Un Canadien Errant (Quebec folk song). Also Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago.
Ashokan Farewell, from Ken Burns' Civil War series.
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
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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.
Many versions of this song out there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYeoF5ymXA
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