Once I was jamming on my mando at a small old time jam, pretty much playing backbeats. And after a couple tunes the fiddling gal sneered, "how long have you been playing bluegrass?" and that was the end of that.
So I was a little bit nervous a couple years later when Brad Leftwich asked me to accompany him at a dance, with my mando. I asked him what he wanted me to do, and he said, "whatever you want, but it would be nice to have a rolling strum." I didn't know what he meant, so he said something like dum-a-strum-a dum-a-strum-a, a little bit swung, but not much. That's kind of a guitar strum for me. I guess he liked it because he asked me to accompany him a few more times that week. It was really fun! I think it's the same as any kind of social music. It's as loose or strict as the people involved want. I personally really like things loose. But sometimes that's not the scene. Topher On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Justin LeCuyer <[email protected]> wrote: > I think he might be reffering to a Bump-a-ditty type rhythm, can't be sure > though. > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:54 PM, root <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You don't happen to have a youtube example of that shuffle on mandolin >> that you could post do you? >> >> On Jan 15, 12:12 pm, Paul Priest <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I like a mandolin in old time music...There's a shuffle that I learned >> > from Tater's playing that I use. It reminds me of the patterns Martha Haley >> > played on Ed's fiddle tunes. >> > Shoot,just have fun. There are usually really good hoppy microbrews >> > involved at oldtime functions. >> > >> > --- On Fri, 1/15/10, root <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > From: root <[email protected]> >> > > Subject: Old Timey playing >> > > To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]> >> > > Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 2:18 PM >> > > Going to an old timey festival this >> > > weekend. Should mandolin chords be >> > > chopped or let them ring out? >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> > > Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected]. >> > > For more options, visit this group >> > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Taterbugmando" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. >> >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > >
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