What do you mean by "tuned to the key of D"? What are the individual strings tuned to?
2 2009-01-10 14:14:04
Re: Mandolin (87 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
bubba55, I can sympathize with your multi-instrumental woes. I (try to) play dobro and bouzouki as well. It can be confusing in jam sessions. When following the guitar player I make mistakes by trying to play a similar shaped chord on the mando instead of translating the guitar shape to the chord name. You might like trying the octave mandolin or cittern if you want more real estate on your fret board. They're usually somewhere between the mando and guitar in length. The bouzouki is fun with its 12 string-like pairings of strings. I use the same tuning as a mando. Somethings are easier to play on it, somethings harder. The neck is about the length of bluegrass banjo. For me the hardest thing is holding my arm out in left field for so long.
3 2009-01-06 22:08:36
Re: resonator guitar (17 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
I've been learning for some 20 years. I wish all the instructional YouTube videos had been around when I started.
4 2009-01-06 21:57:08
Re: Another Good Mandi song - Maggie May (1 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
The intro and outro are good mando riffs. I imagine the 12string intro to "You Wear It Well" would be too.
5 2009-01-06 21:49:00
Re: Mandolin (87 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
bubba55 - If you enjoy playing it, it's good enough. When you chops and your ear tell you it isn't, it's time to move up. As ApeDoctor implies, proper set up can make a "cheapo" mandolin sound and play a lot better. Have fun.
6 2008-01-28 12:48:13
Re: Mandolin (87 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
Good one Upyer.
It's funny how once you take and interest in a particular instrument you find it in a lot of music where you never noticed it before.
7 2008-01-27 14:39:49
Re: Mandolin (87 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
For those that want some "contempory" mandolin music check out R.E.M's "Losing My Religion", GreenDay's "Good Riddance(Time of Your Life), Old Crow Medicine Show's "Wagon Wheel"
I'll recommend others as I think of them and would welcome others to do the same.
Cheers
8 2007-10-12 13:59:56
Re: Mandolin (87 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
I had neck surgery a couple of years ago. Doc told me on the way home not to lift anything over 5 lbs for a couple of months. My dobro weights 8 lbs. I turned to my wife and said "I gotta buy a mandolin." I picked up a real sleeper, Bean Blossom by Morgan Monroe. His all mahogany A and F styles are among the sweetest I've heard and the price is unbelievable. I got the A style for ~ $230. I'd recommend them to anyone.
9 2007-10-12 13:22:04
Re: Dulcimer Players (17 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
Mtn dulimer lovers might want to check out Joni Mitchell's old album "Blue". She ran away to Europe one year and just took a dulcimer with her. She wrote and played several of the songs on that album with the dulcimer. See if you can figure which ones. They have a steel string classical guitar quality.
Let's not forget the Hammer Dulcimer particularly ala John McCutchen.
10 2007-10-12 12:46:59
Re: Copying to Word (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
I'm a side man to a guy that has a 400+ song repetoire. No way I can memorize all of them. I play dobro and have to look at the neck now and then (no frets). I like to customize the printout to make it easier to play. I expand the margins and use a large font with the chords in a larger font and different color. This makes it easier to find my place when I look back to the page.
I've also started playing mandolin and being able to copy and paste the mando chord paterns is great help too.
11 2007-10-02 12:17:32
Re: Copying to Word (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Thanks Admin, that worked like a charm.
12 2007-10-02 12:07:06
Re: Copying to Word (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Wow thanks for the quick response. I'll try it.
The brackets are actually helpfull. I use them with the search/replace feature to find the chords and change their color/font/size.
How about starting a thread to collect items for the handbook then have someone collect and organize them?
13 2007-10-01 17:23:23
Re: Copying to Word (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
PS where do I find the "User's Handbook" for the site/forum?
14 2007-10-01 17:21:09
Topic: Copying to Word (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
New member here, so redirect me if I'm posting in the wrong place.
I discovered Chordie a few years ago and loved it. The transpose and alt instrument chord feature are trick.
I used to copy and paste songs into Word and liked the fact that while in the web browser the chords appeared above the lyrics, in Word they where interspersed with them. This took up less lines on the page allowing me to use a larger font an still get the complete song on one page, making it easier to use when cheating at a gig. Recently your format has changed and now chords and lyrics copy into Word in table form. Is there anyway to copy the song in the old format?