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1996: You Can Play Bluegrass Mandolin Vol. 1 DVD ; 1996: You Can Play Bluegrass Mandolin Vol. 2 DVD (Homespun) 1997: Thirty Fiddle Tunes for the Mandolin CD (Homespun) 2003: Mandolin Tunes for Practice and Repertoire book/ CD (Homespun) 2004: Butch Baldassari's Bluegrass Mandolin Workshop DVD (Homespun) 2008: Mandolin Hymns CD (Homespun)
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A native of Mississippi, Compton began playing mandolin in his teens, influenced by the region's blues, old-time country, and bluegrass traditions. His musical background was influenced by his great-grandfather, who was an old-time fiddler. Compton initially played trombone, then switched to guitar, and later to mandolin, playing old-time music ...
It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C 3-G 3-D 4-A 4), a fifth lower than a mandolin. [1] The mandola, though now rarer, is an ancestor of the mandolin. (The word mandolin means little mandola.)
Franklin Delano Wakefield (June 26, 1934 – April 26, 2024) was an American mandolin player in the bluegrass music style. Wakefield was known for his collaborations with a number of well-known musical artists, including Red Allen, Jimmy Martin, Don Reno, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, The Stanley Brothers, and the Greenbriar Boys.
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Crosspicking is a technique for playing the mandolin or guitar using a plectrum or flatpick in a rolling, syncopated style across three strings. This style is probably best known as one element of the flatpicking style in bluegrass music, and it closely resembles a banjo roll, the main difference being that the banjo roll is fingerpicked rather than flatpicked.
This "mandolin craze" was fading by the 1930s, but just as this practice was falling into disuse, the mandolin found a new niche in American country, old-time music, bluegrass and folk music. More recently, the Baroque and Classical mandolin repertory and styles have benefited from the raised awareness of and interest in Early music .