Blues Mandolin & Beyond: Website of Jim Richter
A Tonal Butcher of Stringed Wood
Freebie for everyone regardless of tab subscription status. My arrangement of Tico Tico. I’m no Mike Marshall or Jethro Burns. Just my little ole arrangement. Enjoy! Tico Tico (PDF): One of the great 20th century tunes covered by everyone from the…
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Peter Green is single-handed one of the greatest–if not the greatest–of the British blues guitar icons. New tablature has been posted for Peter Green’s incomparable blues rock guitar standard, Oh Well. It is all the major riffing to the first…
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After a short hiatus, the 6th Jim Richter Mandolin Camp for the Rest of Us Featuring Don Julin will comence in 2019! It has been scheduled for July 10 through the 13th at the Grant Street Inn in Bloomington Indiana….
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I had a blast at Mandolin Camp North this past April. Great classes and instructors, including Don Stiernberg, Frank Solivan, Sharon Gilchrist, Skip Gorman, Mike Compton, Richie Brown, and more. It was a privilege to teach there and was glad that…
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After 6 years of the same design, I’ve decided to try something else. Since I started doctoral studies, I’ve progressively contributed less and less to this site. For my own self-care, I’m committing myself to contributing more content this year…
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I am scheduled to teach the blues mandolin track at Mandolin Camp North April 13-18th, 2018 in Charlton, Massachusetts. Due to family and school commitments, I was not able to host my Richter Mandolin Camp for the Rest of Us,…
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Hendrix’s “Castles Made of Sand” is now available on the Tablature page for site members. The PDF and Notion files are both included. There will soon be an instructional video of this arrangement on Mandolins Heal The World.
It has been awhile!! 2016 was a year of doctoral-focused work. I wrote an early thesis and took my qualifying exams (I passed, thank you very much). Being a bit burned out by school and work, I’ve taken 2017 off…
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One of the requisite tunes that one learns as a young guitarist. This arrangement, though simple, is a challenge due to the double stop that is maintained on the high A and E strings while the walking bass is done…
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After 8 years of playing an F-hole mandolin, I’ve gone back to playing a vintage Gibson oval hole. I’ve had a 1914 F2, a 1926 F2, and a 1927 F4. The mandolin in the video is a 1919 Gibson…
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