Thanks for visiting! After many years of contemplatiing, I finally decided to buy a mandolin and teach myself how to play it. I set up this blog mainly in order to track how I am going. Feel free to follow my progress here too. (And yes, in case you're wondering, I did name the mando after Mycroft Holmes).
Showing posts with label Chris Thile transcription. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Thile transcription. Show all posts
Here's an attempt at Blackberry Blossom. It's a transcription of Chris Thile doing it, which I found on the mandozine.com website (under Practice Tunes they have a whole heap of TablEdit files people have submitted - great resource) and the backing track is from this. Not sure how accurate it is as I can't find the original to be able to compare it, but hey, it's better than anything I'd come up with, so I figure it's worth practising. I'm not really playing it note for note anyway, as I get lost a few times (which you'll hear) and start improvising (rather poorly).
Before anyone points it out, yes, I know it's a bit rough and I'm probably trying to play it a bit too fast. I have also been practising this tune slowly and using a metronome on the backing track, so don't shoot me, I just like to challenge myself. Really annoyed that I stuffed up the little Pink Panther quote Thile managed to work into the B section... oh well.
For those who are counting, I've now been playing about 10 months. Sort of feel like I've plateaued a bit, but I haven't been practising as much as I'd like to lately. Too much jammin' not enough hard work :-)
