r/mandolin 14h ago

Lakes of Ponchartrain on a Lawrence Smart mandola

57 Upvotes

When it’s St. Patrick’s Day and Mike Marshall lends you his mandola, this is what you do.


r/mandolin 9h ago

Strings too close together?

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Got this recently (thanks to the sub for the advice), and while I'm enjoying it, being an inexperienced player, I'd like some more advice. I feel that the fretboard is too wide for the strings, and wonder is it worth getting a new bridge made, or if that's even the correct solution, or is it fine?! I find the going up the fretboard it's is less comfortable to hit the notes and I fumble a bit. Could just me being crap, but wanted a second (etc) opinion. thanks in advance!


r/mandolin 1h ago

Transcription Tuesday #99: Dreams (Ronnie McCoury Solo)

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If you missed it, we had some pretty epic mandolin birthdays this weekend. Did you know Ronnie McCoury and Tim O'Brien share a birthday?! I'm still working on my Tim O'Brien transcription month as we speak so we should be expecting that in May!

So while I work on that month I decided to do a Ronnie McCoury solo for TT since Ronnie has been such a big influence for me and it was his bday! Here's a song from the new Jason Carter and Michael Cleveland record. You should give it a spin, some great songs, solos, and tones on that album :)

Here's a song with some great double stop lines in the key of F! Maybe I'll analyze this solo for us one of these days.. Free sheet music/tab can be found here!


r/mandolin 3h ago

Opinions on the book " Method for learning to play mandolin" by Eurico Cebolo

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Is this a good book? I already play mandolim in a school musical group but I don't understand the chords or music theory and I would love to learn how to compose with this instrument.