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Mandolin Don: On and On

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Documenting my long musical mando journey. Saturday, May 10, 2008. On and On - in the key of G. A few bars later Bill does an interesting jump up to some double stops that descend from the D to the G followed by really cool rhythmic harmonics played on the D and G strings. Anyway, here's Bill Monroe's version:. And here's me playing it as transcribed by Mike Compton. And then faster. This is still only about 70% of Bill's tempo. He makes it sound easy, but he's really cooking. May 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM.

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Mandolin Don: Crosspicking Wildwood Flower

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Documenting my long musical mando journey. Saturday, April 5, 2008. This week, our classes at the Folk School. Started back up. I'm taking 2 classes on Monday nights, Advanced Mandolin and Bluegrass Ensemble, both instructed by Dave Mueller. He's a great instructor and player. His regular bluegrass gig is The Grass Pack. This week in the mando class, Dave introduced us to crosspicking. We used a version of Wildwood Flower from the Mandolin Cafe. October 4, 2011 at 2:52 PM. Blog Roll and Mando Sites.

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Mandolin Don: Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road

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Documenting my long musical mando journey. Saturday, May 3, 2008. Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road. This next recording is Bill Monroe's break on the recording of Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road found on Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 (Disc 4). The song has a great, bluesy feel to it. It reminds me some of True Life Blues and Sugar Coated Love. Lot's of down strokes and slides. You can really here a bluesy precursor to rock and roll in this break. Oh yeah, Don!

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Mandolin Don: The First Whippoorwill

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Documenting my long musical mando journey. Sunday, April 6, 2008. The next one is from Mike Compton. Too It's a Bill Monroe tune, The First Whippoorwill. I think it was originally done in G# but with the mandolin tuned to play in standard intervals. I included two versions of this, one pretty slow and one a little faster. The song has some very characteristic Monroe's moves. Like the slides from Bb to B and the pull offs from F to E. Lot's of good material to work into my vocabulary here.

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Mandolin Don: May 2008

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Documenting my long musical mando journey. Saturday, May 10, 2008. On and On - in the key of G. A few bars later Bill does an interesting jump up to some double stops that descend from the D to the G followed by really cool rhythmic harmonics played on the D and G strings. Anyway, here's Bill Monroe's version:. And here's me playing it as transcribed by Mike Compton. And then faster. This is still only about 70% of Bill's tempo. He makes it sound easy, but he's really cooking. Saturday, May 3, 2008.

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Mandolin Don: Back from Vacation and ready to pick some

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Documenting my long musical mando journey. Saturday, May 3, 2008. Back from Vacation and ready to pick some. Well when Mike got back from down under and I had my first lesson again, it was obvious I had not practiced the last couple of songs he gave me to work up. Of course, I have plenty of excuses - as my other posts show, I have been working on other stuff and learning to record, etc. Mike: " sure, sure, I see how you are :)". So I decided I better start working on some of Mike's material in earnest.

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