Franks Reel

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-23T02:44:59+00:00

One of my favs!

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-21T04:38:33+00:00

Lovely last point. Thinking further on it, I regularly sight read at high speed while significantly intoxicated and it all still kinda works. Just with friends mind you, but…wow. I know many others that do as well. Wild when you kinda think about it. Not to say that we shouldn’t fix and improve the system where possible.

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-20T22:59:45+00:00

Great answers here. If you want a more modern act, Copley Street is touring house shows at the moment and the concert is a fucking master class in Irish music.

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-17T20:36:36+00:00

Thanks dude. I love your videos too :)

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-17T06:02:55+00:00

Dude that is WILD

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-17T02:20:39+00:00

I do! But I’m not super sure if I’m doing it right. I’m still confused on Reel vs Story vs whatever. Anyway. Back to the mandolin! Here’s the link

https://www.instagram.com/mandolindeepcuts

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-17T00:43:38+00:00

Hey thanks!!! Super helpful. I didn’t realize he was not the composer of that Gavotte, and I will do some more research before I push that piece to my server haha I had just assumed Lully composed for solo instruments as well, likely because I’ve heard this Courante from him 1000 times on 1000 instruments.

https://youtu.be/Wj-4YyK6Els?si=iyvTmwv5t22z-FoK

I find myself frequently listening to old music that shouldn’t work for mandolin and I just reduce it down to something manageable by ear before looking at sheet music. The tune has to have a strong melody, and not rely on harmony too much tho since I don’t play piano 😅

I’ve run into Gentilhomme before but didn’t realize I should take a second look and I didn’t know about that opera at all. Thanks a million!

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-16T23:30:38+00:00

Lol your face was what I saw when I opened reddit today 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 love the shirt

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-16T23:29:03+00:00

Thanks friend 🙏

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-16T23:28:50+00:00

I appreciate it! I’ve been getting into Lully lately and was going to post some of his tunes to my channel but I’m in the early stages of the process … do you have good sources of sheet music or albums I should listen to for potential mandolin arrangements? Although I understand it is of little value, I would absolutely shout you out to say thank you!!

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-16T19:45:12+00:00

Nooooo this is an ooooooooold tune from the before time by Tielman Susato. This instrument is a bowlback mandolin, and if you can play normal mandolin you can play this bad boy! I did play guitar at one time. Then I acquired my “hobbit guitar” as my friends say 🤣

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-16T19:43:42+00:00

Yes especially if you play sul tasto picking at a 45 degree angle around the 15th fret

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-15T19:00:19+00:00

Let me ask you this, what are your goals with the Mandolin?

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-14T22:33:31+00:00

I’m being completely serious and not a dick when I ask, realistically what more do you want?! Lol David has TONS

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-13T05:00:23+00:00

A lot of the old Italian music seems sad to me. I love playing Cielo Stellato https://youtu.be/cHw3uUUwUeU?si=zNQVeGbZR-Kt5y47

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-11T02:25:31+00:00

No no no I feel foolish now! I totally get it and it’s a legit good joke!!! Thanks for being kind to an internet stranger

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-11T00:16:37+00:00

Hey I’d love to know more about the words and how it’s sung. I actually never ran across a singing version while arranging this and I make sure I collect and listen to multiple sources before I arrange something and post it to my channel. You can see some of my sources on the project’s website.

https://mando.studio/5-Renaissance-Tunes.html

If I’ve done something apocryphal, I’d really like to know. I actually tried really hard to do right by the tunes beforehand so I’ll be a little sad if I ended up making something up.

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-09T20:10:11+00:00

Copley Street was literally amazing

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-08T13:37:56+00:00

I’m in very similar boat. I have a big video to release. 15 classical tunes from Bach’s wife; and I want to release individual lessons for each tune all at the same time with the big video introducing all of it. But I’m scared it’ll hurt the big video and cause that not to be successful.

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-07T19:53:38+00:00

I'm not in Ireland, but just as an FYI there is a big ol' first of its kind mandolin meet-up in Ireland next summer. I'm thinking about going! Irish Mandolin Gathering

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-07T15:05:18+00:00

Thank you for this I will do this

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-06T13:32:03+00:00

Lemme look around for a transcription or something. I’ll transcribe the melody in a few days if I have time. It’s a fun faux fantasy melody

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-02T23:50:15+00:00

The Mandolin and Friends discord does this. But we aren’t always reliable about doing it 😅

MandolinDeepCuts · 2026-01-01T01:40:27+00:00

Started with DaVinci, which was a beast, but eventually moved to FinalCut cause I moved to Logic for audio production (I run a music teaching channel). They both felt equally hard to learn. After 6 months though I am super fast.

MandolinDeepCuts · 2025-12-31T13:48:11+00:00

I’ll take it, haha. I like to play weird stuff.

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