mandolin beat
By theGuen on April 8, 2018 9:02 pm
Ok this one started some weeks ago when i stumbled across some old italian maestro who played the godfahther theme on his mandolin. I really loved that, and thought that would be hell nice with a cool beat. So i read a bit about mandolins and ended buying a quite cheap one on amazon. I did'nt find any middle class instruments... and it seems that they all need some tuning. Ok, so my mandolin arrived and it took me like two evenings to get that damn thing tuned... but i liked the sound, good waited one week to let the strings settle and it keeps the tuning nicely... So i've tried to play what i have heard... NO WAY... Don't know why i thought i could play things like that So it hangs on the wall for some more weeks...
This week i was motiviated to use it, but realized that i don't know any chord nor i now where the notes are... So my fingers startet to play what they are used to while my ears were moaning for some time and than said ...ok... that might work
As i wanted to use not too much samples i took out the udu drum which i also never really used one any tracks and started to play a little beat. I also recorded some eggshaker. I layered everything with some drums and synths. Sorrowly i don't have a cow bell so i had to play it on the sampler... was one of the most fun parts to play.
So here it is not virtuos not much variations... but i kind of like it
Hope you enjoy...
Have a good week!
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