Mandolin, banjo,, country, bluegrass and folk music info!!

[Bluzeman]

Oh, and by the way, thanks for the compliment!

Rick

[Cowgirl]

Here is another one for your listening pleasure, got to give it a few seconds with the guitar and then it really gets into the mandolin!! I don't know why but everytime I hear the mandolin, it really touches the very core of me. I just love this instrument!!

Cowgirl

[mstar1]

Bluegrass on a resonator??

Lets hear some of that!

I like this thread

[Bluzeman]

I'll try to record some this weekend mstar.

Rick

[dmiller]

quote:

Originally posted by Bluzeman:

OK, for better or worse, I'm gonna post this. I just bought a mandolin this year. Have been playing guitar since 1971, KB since 77 and can pretty much play any stringed instrument. Just a knack I guess. But anyway, my second day with the mandolin, I was looking for a Zepplin-ish kind of tune and came up with THIS. Now I'm sure ya'll are much better than me on Mandolin, but before you laugh too much, keep in mind, this was my second day of working with mandolin. :)-->

Rick

Woooooo --- no laughing here. I'm impressed!

David

[Bluzeman]

Well thank you David!

Now what I REALLY want is to get a Mandolin like the one in your pic and Cowgirls pic. I mean the style...is that what they call the "F" style? Mine is the other style, whatever they are called. :)-->

Rick

[Cowgirl]

Bluzeman, here's a site you might want to check when it comes to purchasing a mandolin, Some mighty fine mandoes here!! Of course I'm sure you're aware there's lots more to pick and chose from. I just happen to really enjoy the sound of these ones.

There is a site that I have been trying to find where where it has lots of mandolins for sale and you can listen for a few seconds of the sound each one makes. I'll post it once I find it.

Cowgirl

http://www.rigelmandolin.com/

[Cowgirl]

Gotta hurry and get this to the 3rd page, I got a real treat for y'all to listen to!!!

Cowgirl

[dmiller]

Yup --- The pics shown are *F* models. I'm guessing you have an *A* model.

:)-->

[Cowgirl]

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[Cowgirl]

I was reviewing 2 and 3 finger chords and I saw that some of these chords have the same name but yet totally different fingering positions. For example "A" in one of my notes is shown as a 2 finger chord and then in one of my books it is shown as a 3 finger chord, why is that? It's a bit confusing. When it calls for the "A" chord in a song how do you know which one to play, just go by the sound?

Here are some others ones that do that.........G13, C7, Fm7, Am, A7,

Cowgirl

[Scout Finch]

Thanks for this thread. I am not a musician but am thankful that you folks are. The music that plays when this thread is open is breathtaking.

[dmiller]

I play an *A* chord several ways, but usually it is:

5 -- this being the 5th fret, on the *E* string

4 -- this being the 4th fret, on the *A* string

2 -- this being the 2nd fret, on the *D* string

2 -- this being the 2nd fret, on the *G* string

sometimes I'll play combinations of that configuratioin for the same chord, but giving me different results in sound that seem to flow better with the tune being played.

My general rule of thumb is -- play the chord however it feels most comfortable to you. I have a hard time getting my fingers into some of those other ways of playing the same chord!

Most bluegrassers play the *A* chord like this:

5 -- 5th fret, E string

4 -- 4th fret, A string

7 -- 7th fret, D string

9 -- 9th fret, G string

My fingers don't work, for that one!

Edited September 21, 2005 by dmiller

[Cowgirl]

Here's the LINK

The song you want to hear is "Days Go BY" Lots of mandolin in it!! Absolutely one of my favourites!!

Cowgirl

[Cowgirl]

I have a HUGE favour to ask, if anyone can fulfill it for me, that would be AWESOME !!!

The song "Days go By" that I posted the link to, I would love to get my hands on the invidual notes to it, I already have the chords for it, I can figure out the notes to simpler songs but this one is out of my league.

Cowgirl

[Ron G.]

Hi Cowgirl...

I sorta derailed the athletics thread, but if you ever heard a good fiddler play the Virginia Reel at a contradance, you'd know that wasn't such a stretch.

I did a google, and to my surprise, guess who showed up?

http://www.acousticspectrum.com/bradpage.htm

Sssshhhhh...Don't tell 'em what I said about Brandon.

[Cowgirl]

On the "Mandolin Cafe" website you can enter to win this beaut for free, the draw takes place on October 15th.

Cowgirl

[dmiller]

Even before that, Brad's love for music began in 1979 at his family's bluegrass festival that brought in local and regional talent through 1984. It was there that he was exposed to the talents of the likes of Scott Vestal and Russell Moore who were then "Southern Connection."

Brad's other early influences were the Virginia Squires, The Lost & Found, The Lonesome River Band, Tony Rice, Larry Rice, Snuffy Walden, Norman Blake and the Bluegrass Album Band.

It wasn't until later that he listened to and learned from the ones that these had learned from, namely the likes of Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs.

Hmmmmm. Scott Vestal and Russell Moore are the musical *offshoot* equivilants of what was the foundation of bluegrass. Like following *religious* off shoots, one gets a better perspective of the music by following the off shoots that come from that genre, while respecting the original.

Earl re-wrote how banjo was to be played, but Scott Vestal (and others) took it to new heights.

Father Bill invented the music and sang the *High Lonesome Sound*, but Russell walks all over him in the vocal department.

Flatt and Scruggs were a premier band, but The Lonesome River Band transcends, and surpasses all that has been done before.

Well -- I like the old as well as the new. Even though Father Bill called the mandolin

*first child*, I bet he never did expect the likes of Sam Bush to come to the forefront, and re-define mandolin like no other has done. :)

Edited October 1, 2005 by dmiller

[dmiller]

Sam (Bush for president!) :D

:lol:

And Sammy Shelor for vice-prez!!

:D

(If we have to *pick and choose* our battles, let us pick first, and choose later.)

Edited October 1, 2005 by dmiller

[Bluzeman]

Hey Cowgirl, I can't make out the name on the headstock in that pic. What kind of mandolin is it?

Rick

[Cowgirl]

Bluzeman, It is a "Collings" and here is a link to some more info on it!

http://www.gryphonstrings.com/Gallery/coll...gsMandoMT2.html

http://www.12fret.com/new/collings_MT2_mandolin_pg.html

Cowgirl

Edited October 1, 2005 by Cowgirl

[dmiller]

[Cowgirl]

Hey tomorrow is the big day for the draw of that mandolin!!! I WANT TO WIN IT !!! So any of you who read this post, if you can pray for me, wish me luck, hope for me, if you can command, bid, desire, urge, believe, aspire, dream, foresee, expect, long for, what ever it's going to take I would appreciate it !!!! :D

Thanks mucho!!

Cowgirl

Edited October 14, 2005 by Cowgirl

[dmiller]

Cowgirl ----

Feelllllll those strings underneath your fingers!!:

Visualize that Mando in your house;

See that thing in your hands on a daily basis;

Hear the rasp of the pick over the strings

See yourself putting it to bed each night, in it's case, in your house

AH ---- ferget it. I just realized you said to pray (NOT BELEIVE) for it.

Like I told Mike --- there is no Law of believing. But I do still believe in the power of prayer! :)

David

Edited October 15, 2005 by dmiller

[Cowgirl]

David, so does that mean if you win it, you are going to pass it on to MOI ??

Cowgirl :lol: