Need more Zeppelin on this list! "The Battle Of Evermore" and "Going To California" are both spectacular mandolin tunes.

My aunt gave me her mandolin shortly after her wife died. ive struggled a lot in the past with finding and instrument to play that i feel comfort with but now that ive started playing i can barely put it down. thank you Aunt Treese, and I love you Aunt Dawn

@bondavis

7 ай бұрын

Really sorry for you and your aunt's loss, but it's a wonderful thing that you have a part of her with you that gives you comfort, if not a sweet reason for how you got into the mando as well 💙

@EtheRenard

2 ай бұрын

@@nikola9582 People are gay, Steven

@LanguidFox

Ай бұрын

My condolences, I hope her memory will live on for a long time thanks to you.

@fairsaa7975

Ай бұрын

@@EtheRenard Some people struggle with this fact, somehow.

Nice, thanks. In addition all the Irish Traditional jigs, reels, hornpipes, etc. are very well suited to mandolin.

@calebnation7797

4 жыл бұрын

Also any classical pieces written for violin

@FlatlandMando

3 жыл бұрын

That's for sure. Nothing nicer than Irish- style on the mandolin.

The mandolin is a great instrument. Whenever I tell folks I play the mando they assume it's bluegrass. Fact is I play very little bluegrass music. I can play along with just about anything that's going.

@billastell3753

4 жыл бұрын

Williamjames huff name a tune that a mandolin can't slide into and add a pleasant texture? By the way... what do you play?

@richardbartram5317

4 жыл бұрын

I've been playing mandolin for about 10 years, never played bluegrass on it yet. 👍

@phatthand

4 жыл бұрын

Mandolin has been around a lot longer than bluegrass, also goes for banjo, guitar, bass and fiddle.

@enoclopez1378

3 жыл бұрын

You my good sir, are a True Bard :V

@francescodarcangeli4197

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Mandolin is one of the instrument the stereotypical Italian play, at least in the eyes of the foreigners. Germans usually say "Italians, pizza, spaghetti, mandolino" (the more sophisticated throw a guitar in it) and indeed the mandolin was invented in Italy, almost at the same time both in Naples and in Lombardy (the region where Milan is, home for example to the Stradivari violin makers - sorry if I sound nerdish and know-it-all).

Led Zeppelin has some great ones as well. Battle of Evermore, Tangerine, That's the Way, and Gallows Pole are great examples.

@ThinWhiteAxe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's what I said too. Zepp is actually what got me interested in mandolin.

@win1837

Жыл бұрын

No , Tangerine was 12 string

Given the roots of the mandolin I would imagine there are way more mandolin tunes that aren't bluegrass than are! Great job. I would add Heart's Silvan Song/Dream of the Archer as a favourite.

@maplessyrup7026

Жыл бұрын

@cat with a camera it's italian as far as i know

@GiacomoTarkusSannino

Жыл бұрын

@cat and biscuit Mandolin is Italian! It's the staple instrument of Southern Italian traditional music

@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer

10 ай бұрын

Technically most of the mandolin canon in bluegrass was written for fiddle anyway

You can play almost anything on almost any instrument. I play a flute, which is an instrument that can't play multiple notes at the same time, but I play Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Night on Bald Mountain on it like every day. You can figure it out if you try.

Kinda sad Battle of Evermore was left out but nice list,

@TokyoBlue587

6 жыл бұрын

OMG it's great on that song

@drothberg3

6 жыл бұрын

Not to mention Going to California

@ianthefishable

4 жыл бұрын

But spinal tap was on the list lol.

@lowellcalavera6045

4 жыл бұрын

He left out the hard ones

@ThinWhiteAxe

3 жыл бұрын

ME TOO

please make a video on how to learn number 2. losing my religion

@goregore6259

5 жыл бұрын

Mona Maria looks easy to figure out

@nerkdurgen5574

4 жыл бұрын

Or corning my religion

Pretty good. I've been playing with Japanese folk music. Plenty of music out there to play with.

The fact that you played the Stonehenge reel... Appreciate you, sir.

I would love to have your tab for your version of poor wayfairing stranger that was beautiful

I just got a new mandolin! This is so encouraging and motivating! I wanna be this good 💙

Absolutely beautiful playing! What a gorgeous instrument. This video really lifted my spirits today. Thanks for sharing!

my dad just bought me a mandolin out of nowhere and i’m so excited OMG HAHAHAH

@HeavyArmoredMedic

4 жыл бұрын

This is the cutest thing i've seen today

@melloncollie1206

4 жыл бұрын

How's that going for you?

@beyoncealways2911

4 жыл бұрын

Same!! My Nanan just gave me one and I was so surprised!!

@puberunkalita482

4 жыл бұрын

Mine also

@lazylazuli4661

4 жыл бұрын

Same omg

Cool! You have good technique! Thee are also thousands of pieces of classical music. None are bluegrass. Lol! I love Bach, Vivaldi, Händel, etc. Baroque dounds great on mandolin. Beethoven wrote 4 or 6 pieces for mandolin for some gal he was in love with. Mozart also wrote some music for mandolin. There are a lot of superb turn of the 20th century Italian virtuoso mandolin pieces such as Munier's Capriccio Spagnuolo. And the list goes on. Anything written for violin is good for mandolin since mando is a plucked version of the violin I need to taste something besides classic as I've had a hankering for something more modern for just the last month so I really like your offering here. Very nice! Hahaha! Perfect coincidental timing for me. I have two mandos. One flatback and my favorite, my bowlback. Thanks for posting this!

Hey not a well known mandolin song, but Sylvan song by Heart is stunning. Nancy Wilson is a master guitarist & mandolin player. ❤️

Beautiful! So many songs that I love.

Would have never thought to do Dave Brubeck on mandolin..Nice!

Seeing Stonehenge on here killed me. That was one of the first songs I learned when I got my mandolin too 😂

Linus and Lucy! I want to learn that one, #10 was just awesome.

thank you for this!! I am interested in learning mandolin to maybe play Irish music. But I like all these songs too.

how could someone not love this instrument

@pip5528

7 жыл бұрын

Mandolin is cool, but I personally prefer guitars and lutes.

@thejakegittesofetruscology5165

7 жыл бұрын

It's an interesting instrument but its fifths tuning is turning me off.

@colmivers

6 жыл бұрын

The Jake Gittes of Etruscology it makes harmony and chord shapes in general a bit more challenging for sure, but worth the effort

@theredcomet844

5 жыл бұрын

You can’t love something you don’t quite know.

@85481

4 жыл бұрын

@@theredcomet844 I used to really dislike the mandolin when I started listening to bluegrass. Became a running joke with a friend. These days I'm used to it and that was the start of learning to love it.

One of the songs I used to teach myself mandolin, transferring my knowledge over from guitar: “Here Comes The Sun.” George Harrison actually used a capo way up on a guitar, to get it into a mandolin register. I thought, hey, skip the middle man and figure it out on a mandolin. It sounds great, too!

Mandolins, Flutes, and Harps. So pretty.

Great choices. Superbly done

Love the variety of genres here *.*

Bach sounds great on Mandolin. I also like the piece "naquele tempo", composed for flute.

mandolin sounds wonderful , especially when it plays jigs and reels , what a lovely sound

That was great! Was amazed with the Charlie Brown song at the end! Keep it up!

That was amazing!!loved it

I wish you had on your web site available a pdf with sheet music of all these tunes (not tab). Even better a collection with all these and a few more of your favorite tunes you play and teach.

Great video! "Love Is Blue" also sounds wonderful on the mandolin. I stupidly sold my little Epiphone mandolin 5 years ago. This video inspires me to get another one asap.

Not only sound great but look great too ! My Grandfather used to play a Bangor ukulele, self taught and he used to sing and play the old war time songs and he used to get invited to a lot of parties ,he also used to play the piano ,not very well as I can remember but after a few sherbert, he sounded great ! My Grandmother was not best pleased when he was rolling in at all hours @ But he

One thing that will always amaze: the marriage of hand, ear, and brain as a musician plays....

Nice song ideas for mandolin. You play really well.

You forgot Rise by Eddie Vedder and Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin.

@felipesorondo5883

4 жыл бұрын

All of the Into The Wild soundtrack is fucking amazing

@jimmymahone5420

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't forget anything. Record your own list.

@ThinWhiteAxe

2 жыл бұрын

Battle of Evermore is what got me into mandolin in the first place

How do you play the highest fret? It's tiny!

@freddykabulaschnitza2475

4 жыл бұрын

You don't, there just there for show.

@jbeeyes

4 жыл бұрын

@@freddykabulaschnitza2475 is that fuking serious mate

@brendan1888

4 жыл бұрын

You suffer.

@waldalwahsh7833

4 жыл бұрын

use your nails

@WeepingWillow1

3 жыл бұрын

It takes all your strength and willpower to play the forbidden final fret. (Seriously though it's annoying to play that high but possible)

From Chile you'r my favorite! Holy mandoline!

Thanks Andy. Glad to hear you're taking care of your ears......

Now that is a sweet sound. I love it. I am picking up my mandolin now.

@mandohat

8 жыл бұрын

+Ken McKinney That's all we're trying to do here.

As Always Andy - looking forward to having you back at Kamp and for Both Weeks! Where can we hear the rest of those songs?

The song came and went Like the times that we spent Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent I laughed and she'd smile It would last for awhile You don't know what you got till you lose it all again Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to the music on the lake Listen to my heart break every time she runs away Listen to the banjo wind A sad song drifting low Listen to the tears roll Down my face as she turns to go A cool evening dance Listening to the bluegrass band takes the chill From the air 'til they play the last song I'll do my time Keeping you off my mind but there's moments That I find, I'm not feeling so strong Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to the music on the lake Listen to my heart break every time she runs away Listen to the banjo wind A sad song drifting low Listen to the tears roll Down my face as she turns to go Running down by the lake shore She did love the sound of a summer storm It played on the lake like a mandolin Now it's washing her away again Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to the music on the lake Listen to my heart break every time she runs away Listen to the banjo wind A sad song drifting low Listen to the tears roll Down my face as she turns to go The boat's steaming in I watch the side wheel spin and I Think about her when I hear that whistle blow I can't change my mind I knew all the time that she'd go But that's a choice I made long ago Listen to the mandolin rain Listen to the music on the lake Listen to my heart break every time she runs away Listen to the banjo wind A sad song drifting low Listen to the tears roll Down my face as she turns to go Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Bruce Hornsby / John Hornsby Mandolin Rain lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, North Star Media Feedback Videos

I've been practicing mandolin recently. Great vid!

Thank you for your reply! Your mandolin sounds beautiful! And thanx for the tip ;-)

This is awesome!

Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land

@willanthoniozeppeli7913

4 жыл бұрын

Ocean man, take my man, to the land I belong! West Virginia

There's a book by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman that features a mandolin, "Capitol Crimes". It made me curious about this instrument. Thanks for giving me some excellent examples of what this instrument is capable of producing. Well done.

@mandohat

8 жыл бұрын

+OKImListening thanks for checking it out, it's a great instrument Will look into that book.

Blue Rondo a la Turk is a fun song to play on mandolin... and so is Take Five.

Cool what brand are you playing looks and sounds great

Another great song and fairly easy to play is. Copper Head Road

Very Creative Music Instrument.....!

Copperhead Road by Steve Earle. Hasn't Hit Me Yet by Blue Rodeo. Good video, fella, thanks for sharing.

This sounds like what they use to make all the ring tones on phones...

@nitrogenax2327

4 жыл бұрын

Roam no one like this comment it is currently at 69

@rubes221

3 жыл бұрын

Also some of the creepy suspense building noises in horror movies

Goddamn, this blew my mind. My mandolin is just sitting in storage gathering dust. You've inspired me!

I'm seriously glad someone knows Blue Rondo A La Turk :)

wow it sound so great

Best title in the history of KZread

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived a strange race of people, the Druids No one knows who they were or what they were doing But their legacy remains hewn into the living rock... of Stonehenge

oml moondance is one of my favorite songs :')

I wouldn't get one but mandolins sound way better than ukuleles

@mandohat

8 жыл бұрын

of course they do, and you should get one, at least.

@batmanthesupermankiller6717

8 жыл бұрын

+SergRush I was only saying cuz it's a small string instrument, with about the same size as a ukulele

@pip5528

7 жыл бұрын

Mandolin: steel strings F-holes 4 courses of 2 strings Ukulele: nylon strings 4 individual strings

@BlueShift815

7 жыл бұрын

Having played both, they're really nothing alike

@michaelbicknell8837

7 жыл бұрын

I have one of these birds at home I found it by some shops near to where I live ,it's a long way from home.

Love how you put spinal tap in parentheses

frnk iero is one of my favorite artists and losing my religion is one of my favorite songs and i’m happy to see it made the list

thanks for this!!!!!

Nice one pal keep it up 🌟

I want to learn all these songs!

Anyone have the sheet music for the hymm?

Ever tried Jars of Clay's Love Song For Savior? If so, any chance of a tutorial video?

beautiful mandolin 👍

I want the tab or moon dance that was so cool and pretty!

You forgot about Atlanic City by The Band!! LOL I loved the video!

@jimmymahone5420

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't forget anything. He made the list that suited him.

Love that Spinal Tap riff!

@mandohat

8 жыл бұрын

+Pellelunden00 me too!

This is awesome!...where can I find Mando sheet music for these songs or did you compose them yourself?

Great, I loved it. So how about "Mandolin Wind" and a lesson on how to play it and "Maggie May". You'd make an old man very happy...Lol...

You got my vote when you included Spinal Tap!

Isnt the battle of evermore on mandolin

@mandohat

8 жыл бұрын

yes

@ThinWhiteAxe

3 жыл бұрын

@@ResonanceConjurer also That's The Way, Gallows Pole, Boogie With Stu, Black Country Woman, Hey Hey What Can I Do... I love Led Zepp lol

I really want to learn how to play the mandolin, the sounds it makes really reminds me of Bastions soundtrack for whatever reason

Well play brazilian choro fun music and never got out of things to play on mandolin

this is fab.

Hello, I have a mandolin specifically the new Washburn latest model from 1894, the truth is I have almost no knowledge on this subject but could someone tell me if it has any value or is good

what brand mandolin? looks and sounds nice.

This is cool and it sound great my mom buy me a mandolin I am so excited

great stuff, now more learning i have to do😜

Hi my name is Austin and I was just wondering what kind of Mandolin I should buy. I have never played before but seeing videos like this one are the reason why I am giving it a shot. What do you think a good price range is for an entry level mandolin and if you have any specific suggestions that would be cool

@mandohat

9 жыл бұрын

Austin Lieto Hi, Austin. Glad to hear you're looking into playing mandolin. I love it! I always recommend the Kentucky KM-150 as a place to start, and if you don't have a local Kentucky dealer, I recommend the bluegrass shack in Illinois. There are other good choices, too--good luck, and happy picking.

I always loved the Mandoline.

Congo Square, Angie, Wild Night, Walk On Boy, Sixteen Tons, Here Comes The Sun, Wild World, Pretty Woman, Walk, Don't Run, Whiter Shade Of Pale. Those are my ten.

Super helpful

It be nice if you got lessons for all of those...blue rondo...love Brubeck!

Great I want one mandolin

Could you try to do a video on the chords in you're gone by diamond rio?

Tried to find these on your website and would love to get the TAB for your version of the REM song - which also isn't listed in "Get Started on the Mandolin!". I was ready to pull out the plastic!

@mandohat

8 жыл бұрын

+kipling1957 Hey, thanks for checking us out, and for the comment--I'm going to try to get these tabbed out soon. --Andy H.

@codyreadinger6065

8 жыл бұрын

I would love to check out that REM lesson too. It sounds awesome, man!

Never would’ve thought of Linus and Lucy. Maybe a loop pedal to lay down the ostinato to keep it going, and then layer in the melody. Also enjoyed your rendition of “This Is My Father’s World,” one of my favorite overlooked hymns. Would love to hear a full rendition. Keep it up!

Nope, never learned Linus and Lucy on the mandolin.....till now. Thanks Andy! How's that K+K pickup working out live? What kind of preamp do you use with it?

@mandohat

9 жыл бұрын

The K and K is okay. I don't use a pickup unless there are drums on stage, and I don't play with drums anymore. I used to use a LR BAGGS DI (the old one), and was happy with that. I'll take a microphone any day, though!

I really appreciate your talent and the song examples you have played! It appears you are using Steel Wound strings and they sound very, very nice. Are they Gibson monels or? Thanks for sharing your great talent! Dan

@mandohat

8 жыл бұрын

+danstune Thanks, man! The strings are Thomastik Heavy mandolin strings.

@bucksellers5364

7 жыл бұрын

Where are Thomastik mandolin strings found ?... I've never heard of them ...Are they made in another country ?...Out of the USA ?...LOL.....I guess that was a stupid question....EVERYTHING is made out of the USA anymore..... I've been using D'addario ....All the locals tell me they are best...but I've never tried anything else.. Your mandolin does really sound great ! ..Is that a Gibson mandolin ?

@jimmymahone5420

2 жыл бұрын

@@bucksellers5364 Just heard from the maestro himself, who told me it's a 1993 Gibson A5-L.

Stonehenge!

You had me at Spinal Tap.

What mandolin is that? What mandolin less than $150 in Amazon would you suggest for beginners?

I think I'll get a mandolin for Christmas this year.

@Carla-fp7zg

4 жыл бұрын

Marvin the Maniac Same.

@marvinthemaniac7698

4 жыл бұрын

@@Carla-fp7zg way 2 go!

Nice ! Thanks.

Dream of the archer by heart

@williamsholly600

6 жыл бұрын

Alexandra Paige my favorite Heart song