In this video, I show you how to play the chords, rhythm, and accompaniment for “Tremology.” The octave mandolin adds a nice touch to the back up your mandolin, and the beautiful sound of the two instruments perfectly melts together, and the way they blend is just like coffee and cream, or vanilla ...
In this video, I show how I play the octave mandolin accompaniment for Murphy’s Hornpipe. It’s a traditional Irish tune I learned 17 years ago but still love to play it.
For this accompaniment, I focus on playing a strong baseline.Â
It suits this tune well with its forward-moving chord changes.
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In this video I show you how to play an octave mandolin accompaniment for Tarantella Napoletana. We use closed 4-string chords and 3-string chords. This Italian Folk Dance is the tarantella associated with Naples. It is familiar to many viewers of popular media as a stereotypically "Italian" musical...
In this video I play a duo arrangement of Tarantella Napoletana on mandolin and octave mandolin. Â This Italian Folk Dance is the tarantella associated with Naples. It is familiar to many viewers of popular media as a stereotypically "Italian" musical riff or melody.
In the films The Godfather (Il Pa...
In this video, I show you how to play an octave mandolin accompaniment for a Scandinavian traditional waltz. Melody, 2nd harmony and chords. This is a traditional dance tune from southern Sweden.
In Mandolin Secrets Academy you’ll find:
- Sheet music/tabs
- Chord charts
- Play-a-long track
- How-to-p ...
In this video I show you how to play add9 and sus4 chords on the mandolin and octave mandolin.
- D-minor
- F-major
- Bb-major
- C-major
- Add9 (Sus2)
- Sus4 (Add11)
