My aunt gave me her mandolin shortly after her wife died. ive struggled a lot in the past with finding and instrument to play that i feel comfort with but now that ive started playing i can barely put it down. thank you Aunt Treese, and I love you Aunt Dawn
Really sorry for you and your aunt's loss, but it's a wonderful thing that you have a part of her with you that gives you comfort, if not a sweet reason for how you got into the mando as well 💙
The mandolin is a great instrument. Whenever I tell folks I play the mando they assume it's bluegrass. Fact is I play very little bluegrass music. I can play along with just about anything that's going.
Indeed. Mandolin is one of the instrument the stereotypical Italian play, at least in the eyes of the foreigners. Germans usually say "Italians, pizza, spaghetti, mandolino" (the more sophisticated throw a guitar in it) and indeed the mandolin was invented in Italy, almost at the same time both in Naples and in Lombardy (the region where Milan is, home for example to the Stradivari violin makers - sorry if I sound nerdish and know-it-all).
Given the roots of the mandolin I would imagine there are way more mandolin tunes that aren't bluegrass than are! Great job. I would add Heart's Silvan Song/Dream of the Archer as a favourite.
You can play almost anything on almost any instrument. I play a flute, which is an instrument that can't play multiple notes at the same time, but I play Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Night on Bald Mountain on it like every day. You can figure it out if you try.
Cool! You have good technique! Thee are also thousands of pieces of classical music. None are bluegrass. Lol! I love Bach, Vivaldi, Händel, etc. Baroque dounds great on mandolin. Beethoven wrote 4 or 6 pieces for mandolin for some gal he was in love with. Mozart also wrote some music for mandolin. There are a lot of superb turn of the 20th century Italian virtuoso mandolin pieces such as Munier's Capriccio Spagnuolo. And the list goes on. Anything written for violin is good for mandolin since mando is a plucked version of the violin I need to taste something besides classic as I've had a hankering for something more modern for just the last month so I really like your offering here. Very nice! Hahaha! Perfect coincidental timing for me. I have two mandos. One flatback and my favorite, my bowlback. Thanks for posting this!
@@theredcomet844 I used to really dislike the mandolin when I started listening to bluegrass. Became a running joke with a friend. These days I'm used to it and that was the start of learning to love it.
Great video! "Love Is Blue" also sounds wonderful on the mandolin. I stupidly sold my little Epiphone mandolin 5 years ago. This video inspires me to get another one asap.
I wish you had on your web site available a pdf with sheet music of all these tunes (not tab). Even better a collection with all these and a few more of your favorite tunes you play and teach.
One of the songs I used to teach myself mandolin, transferring my knowledge over from guitar: “Here Comes The Sun.” George Harrison actually used a capo way up on a guitar, to get it into a mandolin register. I thought, hey, skip the middle man and figure it out on a mandolin. It sounds great, too!
Not only sound great but look great too ! My Grandfather used to play a Bangor ukulele, self taught and he used to sing and play the old war time songs and he used to get invited to a lot of parties ,he also used to play the piano ,not very well as I can remember but after a few sherbert, he sounded great ! My Grandmother was not best pleased when he was rolling in at all hours @ But he
There's a book by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman that features a mandolin, "Capitol Crimes". It made me curious about this instrument. Thanks for giving me some excellent examples of what this instrument is capable of producing. Well done.
Never would’ve thought of Linus and Lucy. Maybe a loop pedal to lay down the ostinato to keep it going, and then layer in the melody. Also enjoyed your rendition of “This Is My Father’s World,” one of my favorite overlooked hymns. Would love to hear a full rendition. Keep it up!
Nope, never learned Linus and Lucy on the mandolin.....till now. Thanks Andy! How's that K+K pickup working out live? What kind of preamp do you use with it?
The K and K is okay. I don't use a pickup unless there are drums on stage, and I don't play with drums anymore. I used to use a LR BAGGS DI (the old one), and was happy with that. I'll take a microphone any day, though!
I really appreciate your talent and the song examples you have played! It appears you are using Steel Wound strings and they sound very, very nice. Are they Gibson monels or? Thanks for sharing your great talent! Dan
Where are Thomastik mandolin strings found ?... I've never heard of them ...Are they made in another country ?...Out of the USA ?...LOL.....I guess that was a stupid question....EVERYTHING is made out of the USA anymore..... I've been using D'addario ....All the locals tell me they are best...but I've never tried anything else.. Your mandolin does really sound great ! ..Is that a Gibson mandolin ?
Nice. Great stuff. Not eveything is about bluegrass! Seems to be so here in the US. OOOOOOOO!! Maggie Mae! I forgot that one and is a long time favorite! I love that piece. Uhm, I can suggest a whole bunch of non-bluegrass tunes. Get the Bach Cello Suites transposed for violin. Also, as Chris Thile has demonstrated so adeptly, the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin are intermediate pieces. As well, of course, there are all the hundreds of Irish tunes which are easy to play. Thank you for sharing! Well played, too, I must add.
mandohat There is a website, can't remember the name, that when it lists most Bach, it says it's "intermediate." The cello suites are a lot of fun. Pretty easy actually. Well, some are ..... Oooo. Bach's music tends to be right under your fingers. No jumping around - not much. I like to sit and play through a stack of music. Keeps the reading skills up and I tend to learn new fingering (what I call climbing the ladder - moving up the strings from G through E rather than jump from position to position) almost every time I play stuff in volumes..I love TRYING to play his music. Vivaldi is pretty easy. I find Mozart hard to play. All of it is so beautiful though. It's worth trying. Every time you try you get better! Practice, practice, practice.
Tried to find these on your website and would love to get the TAB for your version of the REM song - which also isn't listed in "Get Started on the Mandolin!". I was ready to pull out the plastic!
Love Wayfaring stranger !!! ...but the Linus and Lucy song is pretty cool too.....and of course EVERONE loves Maggie May !!! ...Great choices ! ...Oh by the way I went and checked out the Thomastik strings because I had never heard of them....when I saw the price I understood why I wasn't familiar with them....You don't put a set of $50.00 strings on a $45.00 mandolin....well I guess you could but it probably wouldn't make a lot of sense ...lol....I want an Eastman mandolin...still saving for that ....
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived a strange race of people, the Druids No one knows who they were or what they were doing But their legacy remains hewn into the living rock... of Stonehenge
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My aunt gave me her mandolin shortly after her wife died. ive struggled a lot in the past with finding and instrument to play that i feel comfort with but now that ive started playing i can barely put it down. thank you Aunt Treese, and I love you Aunt Dawn
Really sorry for you and your aunt's loss, but it's a wonderful thing that you have a part of her with you that gives you comfort, if not a sweet reason for how you got into the mando as well 💙
@@nikola9582 People are gay, Steven
My condolences, I hope her memory will live on for a long time thanks to you.
@@EtheRenard Some people struggle with this fact, somehow.
Need more Zeppelin on this list! "The Battle Of Evermore" and "Going To California" are both spectacular mandolin tunes.
The mandolin is a great instrument. Whenever I tell folks I play the mando they assume it's bluegrass. Fact is I play very little bluegrass music. I can play along with just about anything that's going.
Williamjames huff name a tune that a mandolin can't slide into and add a pleasant texture? By the way... what do you play?
I've been playing mandolin for about 10 years, never played bluegrass on it yet. 👍
Mandolin has been around a lot longer than bluegrass, also goes for banjo, guitar, bass and fiddle.
You my good sir, are a True Bard :V
Indeed. Mandolin is one of the instrument the stereotypical Italian play, at least in the eyes of the foreigners.
Germans usually say "Italians, pizza, spaghetti, mandolino" (the more sophisticated throw a guitar in it) and indeed the mandolin was invented in Italy, almost at the same time both in Naples and in Lombardy (the region where Milan is, home for example to the Stradivari violin makers - sorry if I sound nerdish and know-it-all).
Nice, thanks. In addition all the Irish Traditional jigs, reels, hornpipes, etc. are very well suited to mandolin.
Also any classical pieces written for violin
That's for sure. Nothing nicer than Irish- style on the mandolin.
Led Zeppelin has some great ones as well.
Battle of Evermore, Tangerine, That's the Way, and Gallows Pole are great examples.
Thank you! That's what I said too. Zepp is actually what got me interested in mandolin.
No , Tangerine was 12 string
my dad just bought me a mandolin out of nowhere and i’m so excited OMG HAHAHAH
This is the cutest thing i've seen today
How's that going for you?
Same!! My Nanan just gave me one and I was so surprised!!
Mine also
Same omg
Given the roots of the mandolin I would imagine there are way more mandolin tunes that aren't bluegrass than are! Great job. I would add Heart's Silvan Song/Dream of the Archer as a favourite.
@cat with a camera it's italian as far as i know
@cat and biscuit Mandolin is Italian!
It's the staple instrument of Southern Italian traditional music
Technically most of the mandolin canon in bluegrass was written for fiddle anyway
Kinda sad Battle of Evermore was left out but nice list,
OMG it's great on that song
Not to mention Going to California
But spinal tap was on the list lol.
He left out the hard ones
ME TOO
Pretty good.
I've been playing with Japanese folk music. Plenty of music out there to play with.
Absolutely beautiful playing! What a gorgeous instrument. This video really lifted my spirits today. Thanks for sharing!
please make a video on how to learn number 2. losing my religion
Mona Maria looks easy to figure out
Or corning my religion
You can play almost anything on almost any instrument. I play a flute, which is an instrument that can't play multiple notes at the same time, but I play Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Night on Bald Mountain on it like every day. You can figure it out if you try.
Cool! You have good technique! Thee are also thousands of pieces of classical music. None are bluegrass. Lol! I love Bach, Vivaldi, Händel, etc. Baroque dounds great on mandolin. Beethoven wrote 4 or 6 pieces for mandolin for some gal he was in love with. Mozart also wrote some music for mandolin. There are a lot of superb turn of the 20th century Italian virtuoso mandolin pieces such as Munier's Capriccio Spagnuolo. And the list goes on. Anything written for violin is good for mandolin since mando is a plucked version of the violin
I need to taste something besides classic as I've had a hankering for something more modern for just the last month so I really like your offering here. Very nice! Hahaha! Perfect coincidental timing for me. I have two mandos. One flatback and my favorite, my bowlback.
Thanks for posting this!
I would love to have your tab for your version of poor wayfairing stranger that was beautiful
The fact that you played the Stonehenge reel... Appreciate you, sir.
Beautiful! So many songs that I love.
Hey not a well known mandolin song, but Sylvan song by Heart is stunning. Nancy Wilson is a master guitarist & mandolin player. ❤️
how could someone not love this instrument
Mandolin is cool, but I personally prefer guitars and lutes.
It's an interesting instrument but its fifths tuning is turning me off.
The Jake Gittes of Etruscology it makes harmony and chord shapes in general a bit more challenging for sure, but worth the effort
You can’t love something you don’t quite know.
@@theredcomet844 I used to really dislike the mandolin when I started listening to bluegrass. Became a running joke with a friend. These days I'm used to it and that was the start of learning to love it.
I just got a new mandolin! This is so encouraging and motivating! I wanna be this good 💙
thank you for this!! I am interested in learning mandolin to maybe play Irish music. But I like all these songs too.
I wouldn't get one but mandolins sound way better than ukuleles
of course they do, and you should get one, at least.
+SergRush I was only saying cuz it's a small string instrument, with about the same size as a ukulele
Mandolin:
steel strings
F-holes
4 courses of 2 strings
Ukulele:
nylon strings
4 individual strings
Having played both, they're really nothing alike
I have one of these birds at home I found it by some shops near to where I live ,it's a long way from home.
Would have never thought to do Dave Brubeck on mandolin..Nice!
Linus and Lucy! I want to learn that one, #10 was just awesome.
mandolin sounds wonderful , especially when it plays jigs and reels , what a lovely sound
Listen to Hamilton de Holanda: ruclips.net/user/HamiltondeHolandaOficial. The best mandolin player in the world.
Bach sounds great on Mandolin.
I also like the piece "naquele tempo", composed for flute.
Love the variety of genres here *.*
Mandolins, Flutes, and Harps. So pretty.
That was great! Was amazed with the Charlie Brown song at the end! Keep it up!
Seeing Stonehenge on here killed me. That was one of the first songs I learned when I got my mandolin too 😂
You forgot Rise by Eddie Vedder and Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin.
All of the Into The Wild soundtrack is fucking amazing
He didn't forget anything. Record your own list.
Battle of Evermore is what got me into mandolin in the first place
Great choices. Superbly done
Great video! "Love Is Blue" also sounds wonderful on the mandolin. I stupidly sold my little Epiphone mandolin 5 years ago. This video inspires me to get another one asap.
This sounds like what they use to make all the ring tones on phones...
Roam no one like this comment it is currently at 69
Also some of the creepy suspense building noises in horror movies
I wish you had on your web site available a pdf with sheet music of all these tunes (not tab).
Even better a collection with all these and a few more of your favorite tunes you play and teach.
Thanks Andy. Glad to hear you're taking care of your ears......
One of the songs I used to teach myself mandolin, transferring my knowledge over from guitar: “Here Comes The Sun.” George Harrison actually used a capo way up on a guitar, to get it into a mandolin register. I thought, hey, skip the middle man and figure it out on a mandolin. It sounds great, too!
From Chile you'r my favorite! Holy mandoline!
Nice song ideas for mandolin. You play really well.
Now that is a sweet sound. I love it. I am picking up my mandolin now.
+Ken McKinney That's all we're trying to do here.
How do you play the highest fret? It's tiny!
You don't, there just there for show.
@@freddykabulaschnitza2475 is that fuking serious mate
You suffer.
use your nails
It takes all your strength and willpower to play the forbidden final fret. (Seriously though it's annoying to play that high but possible)
That was amazing!!loved it
Not only sound great but look great too ! My Grandfather used to play a Bangor ukulele, self taught and he used to sing and play the old war time songs and he used to get invited to a lot of parties ,he also used to play the piano ,not very well as I can remember but after a few sherbert, he sounded great ! My Grandmother was not best pleased when he was rolling in at all hours @ But he
As Always Andy - looking forward to having you back at Kamp and for Both Weeks!
Where can we hear the rest of those songs?
The song came and went
Like the times that we spent
Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent
I laughed and she'd smile
It would last for awhile
You don't know what you got till you lose it all again
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
A cool evening dance
Listening to the bluegrass band takes the chill
From the air 'til they play the last song
I'll do my time
Keeping you off my mind but there's moments
That I find, I'm not feeling so strong
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
Running down by the lake shore
She did love the sound of a summer storm
It played on the lake like a mandolin
Now it's washing her away again
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
The boat's steaming in
I watch the side wheel spin and I
Think about her when I hear that whistle blow
I can't change my mind
I knew all the time that she'd go
But that's a choice I made long ago
Listen to the mandolin rain
Listen to the music on the lake
Listen to my heart break every time she runs away
Listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go
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Songwriters: Bruce Hornsby / John Hornsby
Mandolin Rain lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, North Star Media
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I've been practicing mandolin recently. Great vid!
Thank you for your reply! Your mandolin sounds beautiful! And thanx for the tip ;-)
There's a book by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman that features a mandolin, "Capitol Crimes". It made me curious about this instrument. Thanks for giving me some excellent examples of what this instrument is capable of producing. Well done.
+OKImListening thanks for checking it out, it's a great instrument Will look into that book.
One thing that will always amaze: the marriage of hand, ear, and brain as a musician plays....
Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land
Ocean man, take my man, to the land I belong! West Virginia
Very Creative Music Instrument.....!
Copperhead Road by Steve Earle. Hasn't Hit Me Yet by Blue Rodeo. Good video, fella, thanks for sharing.
Goddamn, this blew my mind. My mandolin is just sitting in storage gathering dust. You've inspired me!
Never would’ve thought of Linus and Lucy. Maybe a loop pedal to lay down the ostinato to keep it going, and then layer in the melody. Also enjoyed your rendition of “This Is My Father’s World,” one of my favorite overlooked hymns. Would love to hear a full rendition. Keep it up!
This is awesome!
wow it sound so great
Best title in the history of RUclips
Isnt the battle of evermore on mandolin
yes
@@ResonanceConjurer also That's The Way, Gallows Pole, Boogie With Stu, Black Country Woman, Hey Hey What Can I Do... I love Led Zepp lol
Another great song and fairly easy to play is. Copper Head Road
I want to learn all these songs!
Blue Rondo a la Turk is a fun song to play on mandolin... and so is Take Five.
This is cool and it sound great my mom buy me a mandolin I am so excited
Anyone have the sheet music for the hymm?
I think I'll get a mandolin for Christmas this year.
Marvin the Maniac Same.
@@Carla-fp7zg way 2 go!
Love how you put spinal tap in parentheses
Well play brazilian choro fun music and never got out of things to play on mandolin
I want the tab or moon dance that was so cool and pretty!
I really want to learn how to play the mandolin, the sounds it makes really reminds me of Bastions soundtrack for whatever reason
I'm seriously glad someone knows Blue Rondo A La Turk :)
frnk iero is one of my favorite artists and losing my religion is one of my favorite songs and i’m happy to see it made the list
But,
Does it djent?
No
8 strings easily
It has 8 strings, so ye
Ask Jared Dines
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You forgot about Atlanic City by The Band!! LOL I loved the video!
He didn't forget anything. He made the list that suited him.
Nope, never learned Linus and Lucy on the mandolin.....till now.
Thanks Andy!
How's that K+K pickup working out live? What kind of preamp do you use with it?
The K and K is okay. I don't use a pickup unless there are drums on stage, and I don't play with drums anymore. I used to use a LR BAGGS DI (the old one), and was happy with that. I'll take a microphone any day, though!
You had me at Spinal Tap.
thanks for this!!!!!
beautiful mandolin 👍
this is fab.
Nice one pal keep it up 🌟
Thanks for inspiring.......just worked up Secret Agent Man ( giving away my age! ) in A....
You got my vote when you included Spinal Tap!
great stuff, now more learning i have to do😜
oml moondance is one of my favorite songs :')
Cool what brand are you playing looks and sounds great
Great, I loved it. So how about "Mandolin Wind" and a lesson on how to play it and "Maggie May". You'd make an old man very happy...Lol...
Stonehenge!
I really appreciate your talent and the song examples you have played! It appears you are using Steel Wound strings and they sound very, very nice. Are they Gibson monels or? Thanks for sharing your great talent! Dan
+danstune Thanks, man! The strings are Thomastik Heavy mandolin strings.
Where are Thomastik mandolin strings found ?... I've never heard of them ...Are they made in another country ?...Out of the USA ?...LOL.....I guess that was a stupid question....EVERYTHING is made out of the USA anymore..... I've been using D'addario ....All the locals tell me they are best...but I've never tried anything else.. Your mandolin does really sound great ! ..Is that a Gibson mandolin ?
@@bucksellers5364
Just heard from the maestro himself, who told me it's a 1993 Gibson A5-L.
It be nice if you got lessons for all of those...blue rondo...love Brubeck!
This is awesome!...where can I find Mando sheet music for these songs or did you compose them yourself?
Super helpful
Nice. Great stuff. Not eveything is about bluegrass! Seems to be so here in the US. OOOOOOOO!! Maggie Mae! I forgot that one and is a long time favorite! I love that piece. Uhm, I can suggest a whole bunch of non-bluegrass tunes. Get the Bach Cello Suites transposed for violin. Also, as Chris Thile has demonstrated so adeptly, the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin are intermediate pieces. As well, of course, there are all the hundreds of Irish tunes which are easy to play. Thank you for sharing! Well played, too, I must add.
Saint Steven Lol. Intermediate pieces, Lol. very funny. The cello suites aren't too bad, but the violin suites are SO.....intermediate.....;-)
mandohat There is a website, can't remember the name, that when it lists most Bach, it says it's "intermediate." The cello suites are a lot of fun. Pretty easy actually. Well, some are ..... Oooo. Bach's music tends to be right under your fingers. No jumping around - not much. I like to sit and play through a stack of music. Keeps the reading skills up and I tend to learn new fingering (what I call climbing the ladder - moving up the strings from G through E rather than jump from position to position) almost every time I play stuff in volumes..I love TRYING to play his music. Vivaldi is pretty easy. I find Mozart hard to play. All of it is so beautiful though. It's worth trying. Every time you try you get better! Practice, practice, practice.
Tried to find these on your website and would love to get the TAB for your version of the REM song - which also isn't listed in "Get Started on the Mandolin!". I was ready to pull out the plastic!
+kipling1957 Hey, thanks for checking us out, and for the comment--I'm going to try to get these tabbed out soon. --Andy H.
I would love to check out that REM lesson too. It sounds awesome, man!
Great I want one mandolin
Love Wayfaring stranger !!! ...but the Linus and Lucy song is pretty cool too.....and of course EVERONE loves Maggie May !!! ...Great choices ! ...Oh by the way I went and checked out the Thomastik strings because I had never heard of them....when I saw the price I understood why I wasn't familiar with them....You don't put a set of $50.00 strings on a $45.00 mandolin....well I guess you could but it probably wouldn't make a lot of sense ...lol....I want an Eastman mandolin...still saving for that ....
Thank you
Nice ! Thanks.
Love that Spinal Tap riff!
+Pellelunden00 me too!
fun list -you could also have included that minor key Sicilian waltz from the Godfather
Could you try to do a video on the chords in you're gone by diamond rio?
In ancient times,
hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
hewn into the living rock... of Stonehenge
do you have any video tutorials of these?