post a video of yourself

[Jill McAuley]

Well done Katie!! I'd say she's doing more than pretty good - tell her to keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Jill

[amanco45]

Well done Katie!! I'd say she's doing more than pretty good - tell her to keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Jill

Thanks! Katie and I (her dad) are going to see Sierra Hull on Sep 17th at a Bluegrass festival not far from where we live. (central Ohio) I told her that one thing about playing the mandolin is that you will always be in good company and meet the nicest people!

[Marc Woodward]

I posted this already under the Andy Manson thread but thought I'd go for a second bite of the cherry for anyone who didn't see it there! Apologies... Anyway, a little tune I've called From here to Portugal ( Andy now lives and works out there) played oon my new mandolin. Enjoy!
Cheers
Marc

[mtucker]

great playing there, Marc...your new mandolin has got the goods!

[Don Grieser]

Really fine playing and a wonderful tune. Your new mandolin is fabulous.

[Jill McAuley]

Great stuff Marc, lovely playing, lovely instrument!

Cheers,
Jill

[Marc Woodward]

Well here's my old mando! This session has just gone 'live' although we recorded it back in June. A tune of mine called Giovanni's Waltz. I promise I won't post anything else for a while - enough shameless self promotion already!
Marc

[Ed Goist]

Marc; fantastic stuff on both videos!
Do you still have the F4? If so, may I request an A/B video of the same tune played on both the F4 and the Manson?
It should be interesting and fun to hear the differences.
By the way, I LOVE the tone of that Manson.

[Marc Woodward]

Thanks Ed, might be an interesting exercise. The Manson is smooth and rounded - if I don't play it hard I can get ( on a good day!) the kind of bell like fluidity that Chris Thile or Simon Mayor achieve. However the oval hole Gibson (its actually an F2) has tons of punch and for blues numbers seems impossible to beat. I think on this 'Songs from the shed' vid the mando is so loud that the little mic on the camera was distorting slightly!).
Either way I'm very pleased/lucky, they're both great mandos.
Cheers
Marc

[Toycona]

Wow, Marc. That was really, really cool!

[journeybear]

Here's a clip from a radio appearance last week. A local storefront station does a feature for locals every Wednesday. Last week I helped out a friend on some of his original songs. This is one rare time when the camera survived the experience. This was shot on a pretty nice digital camera, so it looks good but sounded better over the airwaves or internet. Still, it came out pretty well, especially considering we had played these songs all of three or four times before. Note clever use of doublestops and third notes (in other words, I am scrounging around in my bag of tricks and trying to look cool at the same time) and also the ubiquitous Mandolin Café hat. He is tapping his foot on a tambourine, by the way, and the clunk you hear about a half-minute in is one of the jangles falling out and hitting the floor.





This guy is a pretty interesting character. He's spent some time riding the rails all over the country, and how he ended up here isn't too clear, but he supportas himself selling coconuts and doing odd jobs. This song touches on some of his unhappy childhood, but it's served up with a pretty lighthearted melody. The start got cut off; the first verse goes like this:

"My pop says I'm an accident, he takes lots of medicine he keeps in a wooden chest
A stranger's name on the bottle, he's been sleeping for a while, my grandma says it's all for the best"

With that in mind, it was pretty surprising that his dad called in to congratulate him. Guess he wasn't listening to the words too closely. Then again, parental pride often takes priority in such moments.

[Trey Young]

Well I just visited this thread for the first time in a while and have been reminded that I should check this one more often. Some really great videos guys and gals. Marc, that Giovanni's Waltz is a great tune and that F2 sounds great. After watching these videos I have second thoughts on posting this one, but here goes. This is Georgia Railroad played on my Elkhorn F-5.

[jambalaya]

Hey y'all! My name's Rob and i played guitar for years and then picked up my wife's mando about 3 months ago, bought my own shortly after, and haven't really picked up a guitar since. Anyways, here are a few clips of me with a rover rm50. there are a few mistakes but i hope you like em. please be gentle. the sound was recorded with a zoomh2 field recorder and if ya haven't seen them, they're really nice for the price(under $200). this site has been extremely helpful thanks alot. vids seem to be out of sync. youtube did it . sorry for that.


highwayman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlKqqAEH0rY

just pickin around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQHY9RQy2RE

deal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCvb1TX_CQw

[Ed Goist]

Hi Rob:
That was great!
I like your chord strumming pattern on Highwayman - Interesting and unique.
I like the other two videos a lot also - Really nice version of Deal. (Gotta' love The Dead!)
Nicely done. Thanks for posting.

[jambalaya]

thanks for listening

[Michael Thompson]

I made my own arrangement of "Have I Told You Lately (That I Love You)" by Lulu Belle and Scotty for a contest and put it in 3/4 time to give it a waltz feel.

If you like it, I'd appreciate votes for the contest here: http://contest.hayloftgang.com/entry/190987

[rico mando]

Here's a clip from a radio appearance last week. A local storefront station does a feature for locals every Wednesday. Last week I helped out a friend on some of his original songs. This is one rare time when the camera survived the experience. This was shot on a pretty nice digital camera, so it looks good but sounded better over the airwaves or internet.

its a very catchy tune . nice work guys , too bad about the mix , would love to hear it again if it is ever redone .

[journeybear]

Thanks, rico. I have a CD of the broadcast audio but haven't figured out how to trim it to an acceptable size for upload yet.

jambalaya - I took the liberty of embedding your vidclips. Hope you don't mind. For future reference, it's pretty easy. Click on the red Tube icon above the pane (in advanced mode), paste the youtube tag into the pop-up blank (just the string of characters after the v=), and there ya go! And in case no one has said so yet, welcome to the Café!

highwayman



just pickin around



deal

[Ed Goist]

Here's a clip from a radio appearance last week. ...snip...

Excellent JB. I really enjoyed that.
I don't know how I missed this the first time around. Glad Rico's comment bumped the post.
Thanks for posting!

[Robert Moreau]

Just thought I would share...
A friend and I enjoyed yesterday's national holiday here in Tokyo by heading to a local park and having a casual guitar / mandolin Jam. (Strictly amateur, but lots of fun). There is always a fantastic atmosphere to these jams, a wide variety of music, and usually a few people who stop to enjoy the tunes.


Cheers,

Rob

[Max Girouard]

Here is a video of me playing a Garcia mandolin I built.

[dreadhead]

I guess I'm looking for some tips from some of the better players. I've only had the opportunity to play mandolin with a few guitarists over the last year or two. I'm more of a guitar player although I did play dobro in a bluegrass band in the late nineties. I started getting into bluegrass guitar & more recently mandolin after moving to France (I've lived here almost 10 years).....I moved here from Nashville, TN, lived in Johnson City, TN before that & grew up in Asheville. I moved from basically the Shrangra-La for this kind of music to the Sahara.

I did two takes.

http://youtu.be/OnA1OeS9Q4E

http://youtu.be/a3MiRWTyyKk

[Steve Cantrell]

Joseph, seems like you have take to the mandolin pretty well. My only suggestion would be to dig in a bit. I actually learned to play the mandolin with an infant in the house and the first time I went to a jam I realized I could only play in infant-sleeping volume. Took a while to get away from that. That being said, that's only a suggestion. I definitely don't consider myself one of the "better" players here...just an enthusiast and something I noticed.

Here's Dawn and I doing some Skillet Lickers "Rocky Pallet". I generally don't care much for C tunes, but I this one I like.

[Jill McAuley]

Great stuff from the two of you as always - lovely tune!

Cheers,
Jill

[formaldehyde-jo]

Here I am just messing around one day when I was bored :P

http://youtu.be/vDBVGQ6NcYM