Tabledit riders on the storm
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Knowing how to play with a drummer is a big step forward. However, this does not make it "rock mandolin" and mean it will work on other tunes. It's trying to play baseball with hockey equipment.ĭepending on the nature of the song, either a folk or BG mando style may be compatible with a "rock" song. Playing rock (not bluegrass settings of rock songs) on the mando has very little to do with "bluegrass mando".
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However I found it very difficult to adapt Rush to a "bluegrass" mando style. There are several different existing "models" you can listen to for ideas:ġ) UK folk-rock (more-or-less): Fairport Convention (Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg), Steeleye Span (Peter Knight), Richard Thompson, Lindisfarne (Ray Jackson - who also played on "Maggie Mae"), The Woods Band (Terry Woods) Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson, Dave Pegg, Martin Barre), Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page or John Paul Jones), early Horslips (Charles O'Connor), Tempsest (Lief Sorbye)Ģ) Blues guys (Yank Rachell, Johnny Young) and rock/roots guys who've got that element in their playing: Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Rory Gallagher, Duke Levine, Fred Tackett, Paul Barrerre (Little Feat), Johnny Winter, John Hiatt (various players),ģ) Other: REM (Peter Buck), Seals & Crofts, The Band (Levon Helm), early Rod Stewart, Elton John (Davey Johnstone), Nash The Slash, The Hooters (Eric Bazilian)Ĥ) Bluegrass mando (more-or-less) grafted onto material which is classified as "rock", though the song may be more folk or country or BG in nature, usually as an extra add-on sonic texture, not essential to the performance of the song: Chris Hillman (Byrds, Manassas, Desert Rose, etc), David Grisman (lots of sessions), Albert Lee (Head Hands & Feet, Emmylou Harris), Byron Berline. (I assume that we are talking about using an 8-string mando rather than a solid-body 4 or 5-string electric.) Personally in the early days of the mandolin, it took some time to transpose these song over to the mando but now after doing it a few times, it seems to be pretty easy. The main reason why many of us play these rock songs on the mandolin is because many of us were originally guitar players from the rock genre before moving over to the mandolin. I can lóók back now and laugh but at the time, it was slightly embarrassing Īnyway if you look at this page: which is located here at the mandolin cafe, this might be able to assist you. So is there any tab for these songs? I wouldn't mind leanring what jbc knows, I can live with Margarittaville. I wonder if they knew what it was? Perhaps setting fire to your mandolin gave it away.
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I can't imagine getting busted for playing Hey Joe on Mandolin. The main thing is that you fulfil the purpose of rock 'n roll which is to. I am sure there are lot of other answers. Not necessarily so you do those lines, but it gives you ideas about how other rock mando players have approached it. I will also do rock-type lead fills, including some bends, although bends can really take an acoustic 8-string out of tune!Īlso, it's great to learn the actual mando lines out of the rock tunes that have mando in them. Then I will change the double stop appropriate notes for the 4 and 5 chords when the music changes to them. This might not work for "Casey Jones," but for more traditional rock tunes (whtever that means!) sometimes I like to do fills during breaks in the vocals with a few closed double-stop slides, like X-X-s5-s3 over a G chord and then throw in some hammer-ons to X-X-5h7-3, all with a Chuck Berry kind of strum. You can also do licks that a lead guitar might do up high. If this topic is of interest, I have other examples I spend alot of time listening to keyboard players and try to mimic what they do and fill the same sort of role.Ī few thoughts before Niles chimes in and gives the definitive answer. Where and how do you fit the mandolin into rock songs? So, what do you do? Do you play melody lines like that, do you strum or chop chords, or do you play a counter-melody? I am sure most players do all of the above (although not, perhaps, in the dame song). I actually do the same thing with Ripple. I am, in effect, assuming the role of lead vocalist. Neither of us sing well so I play the entire melody line, verse and chorus over his strummed chords. I do an acoustic version of Casey Jones (Grateful Dead) where my friend plays rhythm (simple, basic chords)and I play a lead line over it. I will start with a quick, simple example. Since the mandolin does not have a defined role in rock the way it does in bluegrass, I thought it would be interesting to talk about what roles we assume, what songs we play, and how we adapt them to mandolin (as mandolin is an underused instrument in rock genres).
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I thought it might be cool if we talked a little about what rock songs we like to play on mandolin.