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My weekly Thursday-night mandolin club for beginners and improvers returns in September to Core Music in Hexham after its summer break. I will attempt to teach a new tune every week – mainly Celtic inspired, but you never know what else might turn up! For more info e-mail steve@mandolinking.org.uk or speak to Mike at Core Music (01434 601993). Also at Core on Saturday
afternoons, 4th September and 2nd October, you can learn and play some
well-known session tunes at a relaxed pace at Steve’s Slow Saturday
Session. All instruments welcome. Music will be provided for those who like
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From mandolin cafe's recent caption competition: "Yes, Bones, I realize that this isn't my phaser and it's not set to stun, but the Klingons don't know that. Now shut up and point that ukulele you're holding at the big ugly one". |
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The Bluegrass
College Fakebook is a good source of tabbed tunes for mando and other
instruments.
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Learn to read music via the mandolin in 2010 with this tuition group on Yahoo. I wish I had thought of it first!
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The Andy
Statmen Trio on youtube - wow!
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Lessons with Jethro Burns? This is the closest you'll get, with recordings of his tuition sessions.
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Scott Tichenor's mandolin
cafe has long been the top mandolin site on the
web. The content is huge, with hundred's of pages of mandolin stuff
including downloadable lessons, a chord library and lots more links. Check
out the mp3s.
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mandozine - "seeking a cure for mandolin acquisition syndrome" - a hopeless task if you ask me. Mandozine seems to be closely associated with mandolin cafe these days, but still has lots of original stuff.
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Mel Bay's mandolin sessions is a bi-monthly magazine for the mandolin, with back issues available to 2003. Features currently include building a traditional repertoire, klezmer, jazz mandology, interviews and lots of tunes. I always check out the Irish music section.
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Nigel Gatherer's scottish mandolin pages contain all sorts of things of interest to the mandolin player, from playing techniques and tunes to maintenance instructions, musician biogs and links to other mandolin sites around the web.
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Jazz mando unravels jazz theory, fretboard and picking techniques and seeks to promote the mandolin as a "legitimate voice in the jazz genre."
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Dan Beimborn's mandolin archive began by documenting Gibson mandolins. Then it grew and grew..... |
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e-mando
is billed as the electric mandolin resource page and features players and builders, plus a shop.
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John
Marlow made my electric mandolin and I thoroughly recommend it. He
does accoustics and fiddles too.
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The Cool Mandolin Company - then again, anyone who plays mando must be pretty cool in my opinion. |
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The place to go in the U.K to shop for mandos is the acoustic
music company. Based in Brighton, they have a tremendous stock and I
would recommend visiting their shop. I only came away with two!
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The Mandolin Brothers is a well-established U.S. mando shop
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