I’ve recently become National resonator happy and have become owner to a couple of vintage Triolians: a 1929 Triolian mandolin and a 1933 or 34 Triolian tenor guitar. I’ll post more on them later. For now here are some videos.
Pink Floyd has been one of my top bands for a very long time. Whether it be the Syd Barret era Floyd, the Rogers Waters era, or the Waters-less era, Pink Floyd is still one of my favorites. The Wall truly stands as a masterpiece within the band’s catalog and I can safely I say I learned every guitar part and solo from that album. David Gilmour, much like Clapton, has the incomparable ability to say more with less.
I arranged Goodbye Blue Sky for octave mandolin some time back. It works well for standard scale mando too. The challenge of this fairly easy piece is two fold: 1) try to achieve a ringing sound throughout to more closely achieve the open guitar string sound of the Gilmour’s playing and 2) achieve the steady “pulse” or “heartbeat” of the original. It’s steady but never rushed.
Tab is available both in TEF and PDF on THE TRANSCRIBABLE page.
A few months ago someone messaged me through YouTube asking for some far out rock with “Frankenstein” being one of the requests.
I worked this up over a period of a couple days. Hard part is keeping track of all the parts. Hope you enjoy!
By request of a YouTube user, I’ve arranged the Grateful Dead’s Slipknot (from Blues For Allah) for mandolin.
Many years ago, I tried very hard to be a Dead-head and still love the music, though I haven’t given any of it any serious listening in awhile. It’s great to have a reason to pull out a great album like Blues For Allah.
Slipknot is a piece of instrumental music which links Help on the Way and Franklin’s Tower. I remember reading an interview years ago with Jerry Garcia, who sited Django Reinhardt as an influence. Slipknot, with its descending diminshed runs and minor 7 triads, makes me think of Django.
I only played the intro and a little bit of a jam, which is really all the tune is. It’s got it’s head, it goes into jam space, and ends quoting sections of the head.
I’ve started tabbing this out and will have it available for download in a couple weeks. Enjoy!
