I've been looking into it recently, and I'm thinkning of learning to play the mandolin. No, not for bluegrass, probobly for jazz or celtic style music. Has anyone ever learned to play it before? Is it hard to learn?

Any thoughts/comments?

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Originally posted by dj_bas wow awesome!! that's way bigger than mine

ABSOLUTELY !!!!

A beautiful instrument Actually, it's my favorite. I hear it alot in IDM pieces. The mandolin and the harp are so ethereal sounding; like a sound that couldn't be created by the hands of man. Listen to this clip by Colleen. The track is #1 "Everyone Alive Wants Answers." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...6399480-8710543

Positively melting... PM me and tell me how everything goes! Honestly, I didn't know that's what a mandolin looked like. Thanks! Good luck !! Keep in touch...

*edit/ If the price of lessons is anything comparable to that of the Harp, then its expensive. But I think the reaped benefits would be priceless

"Mandolin Players Make Better Lovers"

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Originally posted by DJFreaq wtf Ygrene is energy backwards

Sergio Jimenez - Hiatus pt.1, June 07 Compilation
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oh geez..

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Originally posted by fitom tiel "Mandolin Players Make Better Lovers"

I concur !

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Originally posted by Cal Go Nicolas Cage Go!

For whatever reason, that cracked me up.

it would be interesting to hear some live mandolin-trance set one day. Maybe a back to back with PvD?

mando is wicked. sounds pretty decent in irish folk, and it's pretty well the same as the fiddle when it comes to tuning and fingering. i play fiddle and mando, used to play in an irish band.. but i really like the mando for ukrainian folk music too. has a pretty distinctive sound.

pick up some traditional folk music books at a music store or something... Ossian puts out some good books/series starting at intro level right up to advanced (usually in the same book). it's a nice instrument too cause it's small and self-contained, pretty portable, and it's relatively easy to pick up the basics and sound like you know what you're doing quite quickly.

should get a TA jam session set up!!

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Originally posted by brashy it would be interesting to hear some live mandolin-trance set one day. Maybe a back to back with PvD?

don't know about pvd, but yeh, that would be pretty cool. ATB had some remix of 9pm or whatever with some stylized mando-sounding samples in it a few years back...

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Originally posted by kossack mando is wicked. sounds pretty decent in irish folk, and it's pretty well the same as the fiddle when it comes to tuning and fingering. i play fiddle and mando, used to play in an irish band.. but i really like the mando for ukrainian folk music too. has a pretty distinctive sound. pick up some traditional folk music books at a music store or something... Ossian puts out some good books/series starting at intro level right up to advanced (usually in the same book). it's a nice instrument too cause it's small and self-contained, pretty portable, and it's relatively easy to pick up the basics and sound like you know what you're doing quite quickly. should get a TA jam session set up!!

Hey! Koss. As far as lessons, I've looked around in my area. It seems that anyone who plays geetar, teaches the mandolin as well. How similar are they ?

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Originally posted by No one For whatever reason, that cracked me up.

capt. corelli's mandolin...duh

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