This is the tune we will be working on during the workshop on Saturday Red Haired Boy

This is the tab TAB for red haired boy

Ok it is not a mandolin, but it is interesting that some Bluegrass players are looking at triggering synths from acoustic intruments.
Bella Fleck has established himself as one of the top ‘5 string banjo’ players in the world

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Phil Morley from our band ‘Wetpaint’ told me to check out the Canadian band ‘Northern Lights’. There is some great mandolin playing and interesting arrangements. Some tracks are far from traditional Bluegrass and give you some idea of the different styles of music you can play with the basic Bluegrass lineup

Yes the king of driving Bluegrass mandolin is at the Banjo Festival in Longford, Ireland this weekend. I can’t get there myself to see him …

Here I have done a quick recording of Bill Monroe’s ‘Kentucky Mandolin’ - traditional and modern sounds mixed together. for your listening pleasure!

Kentucky Mandolin.
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/kentucky.mp3]

It was great to see everyone at the EABG festival and those that came along to the workshop - it was good to see Patrick again and his Colin Keefe F5 mandolin - which sounds better everytime I hear it.

I have included 3 files of the workshop tune ‘Sally Goodin’ and a 4th file which includes some of the ideas in it

Audio file ‘Sally Goodin’ slow.
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/SallyG_1.mp3]

Audio file ‘Sally Goodin’ med.
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/SallyG_2.mp3]

Audio file a ‘Sally Goodin’ fast.
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/SallyG_3.mp3]

Audio file ‘Sally Goodin’ ideas.
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/SallyG_4.mp3]

The earlier post included the tabs to ‘Sally Goodin’ in Acrobat and Tabledit format

I did record the workshop to my Zoom H4 - but it could do with some editing (76Mbytes of Mp3 !)

These are some of the files I intend to use during the Festival Workshop

Sally Goodin
Tablature in pdf format 23june07.pdf

Tablature in Tabledit format23june07.tef

Audio file the ‘bounce’ scale
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/bounce.mp3]

Audio file a ‘bouncy’ lick .
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/STE-049.mp3]

n.b. you need the free download of Tabledit player to use the .tef file

More audio files recorded whilst playing the Mandolizer solid body mandolin with the Roland VG8 (Vg8ex)

[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg13.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg14.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg15.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg16.mp3]

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Some more audio files recorded whilst playing the Mandolizer solid body mandolin with the Roland VG8 (Vg8ex)

[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg9.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg10.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg11.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg12.mp3]

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More audio files recorded whilst playing the Mandolizer solid body mandolin with the Roland VG8 (Vg8ex)

[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg5.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg6.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg7.mp3]
[audio:http://www.blueapples.co.uk/wp02/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vg8.mp3]

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