I love the use of melody and chords here... exquisite! You have influenced my playing greatly, this is one of the first tunes I mastered, and shows off the beautiful tones of the Irish Bouzouki. As I have said elsewhere, this arrangement transcends the Irish tag, which describes the instrument, and the origin of the song, but you have truly made it your own... Thank you.
I just bought an Irish Bouzouki and am just learning to play it...what a beautiful instrument. I will be tuning in to your channel many a time. You play Brilliantly! Awesome job...keep it up and thank you for sharing this video!!
The man is a genius with his playing and what a wonderful gift to have... more so he shares the gift with all who care to listen to his quality expertise.... play maistro play.
Unbelievable what a feeling, what a groove. This is real music. All your posts are fantastic, straight from the heart and soul. Thanks also for uploading the tabs!
i thought mandocello tuning was (ADGC) like a cello, and the above tuning (EADG, an octave below a mandolin) was for an octave mandolin(known as a octave mandola to some)?
J'ai tellement adoré que j'ai littéralement eu un coup de coeur pour cet instrument, et vous êtes un multi-instrumentiste et compositeur absolument incroyable ! J'écoute cette fabuleuse musique sans arrêt depuis hier ( quand je vous ai découvert ) … Je vais avoir mon propre Mandocello grâce à vous, quant à apprendre à en jouer, c'est autre chose mais "I can't wait" ! Liza
@BuryMeDown actually you are right about the back but they are also tuned differently. The greek one is usually tuned CFAD. I think the irish one is GDAD or GDAE?
@CanadianBanter there's a german shop called thomann who sell bouzoukis for just 125 euro, well that's what I bought it for since I live in Ireland, cost me 15 euro shipping. I'm not sure if thomann do deliveries outside the EU, I'd say they do, but chances are you'd have pretty nasty shipping costs and you'd have to pay excise and customs duty once it arrives.
@W3R3W00F That's pretty cool. I'll try it out someday, but I don't think that'll be for a while. On the other hand, I do have a very old worn-out mandolin that could be fixed up. That would be a lot of fun too.
@Svoig Same here. I'd recommend getting a bouzouki for around $400+, but that price is a little out of the question for me, at the moment. As for how I learned to play it, when I got it late last October, I just transferred my knowledge of playing the mandolin over to the Irish Bouzouki. It was a pretty quick transition, considering the only two differences were lengthwise and a one string difference.
@sonicfan642 a cello's tuning is CGDA, not GCDA (as you incorrectly infered), some people type tunings high to low instead of low to high, so i was perfectly correct in saying ADGC.(CGDA backwards, see?) you were the incorrect one, GCDA is wrong, as the C is the lowest note on a cello, not the G. and also, Cello is an octave LOWER than a viola, not higher.
You play the best on youtube rvieredom . I always come to your music when I want to here acoustic percussion. Guitar, bouzouki. Have you ever played Hammer Dulcimer?
@sonicfan642 some people write tunings low to high, by EADG rivierdom meant that E was the highest note, then A, then D, then G as the lowest. this is the same tuning as a mandolin but an octave lower, and is commonly associated with an instrument known as an Octave mandola. if you were more learned in tunings you would have realised this, instead of attempting to prove me wrong in my other post, and mistaking high to low tunings as low to high. EADG = GDAE (low to high) .
@TheOldRockband Assuming you mean an Irish Bouzouki, try eBay. I got mine from Hora-factory for about $200 something. It's pretty cheap, but it doesn't sound too bad.
Not really a traditional Irish instrument, but i like this, great rendition of the Foggy Dew, which is Ireland's favorite rebel song. If you want real Irish instruments you have to go back thousands of years to the time of the Horns, which sound very similar to Didgeridoos, they were used in battle.
@VerHohnert If I want to try out an instrument, I don't plan on paying too much for it, and considering a huge amount of instruments are overpriced (especially here) then it's all fair. I saw the same bouzouki on an irish music shop website for €220.
I think possibly this is may be a sound I've been working towards with my guitar - i often use mandolin type tunings - on my 6 string acoustic, 12 string, or even on electric guitar - and have wanted a longer neck (baritone) strung with regular light strings. I think it could get a similar pitch / tonal range somehow. I also found a lot of inspiration in Jack Rose. He used tunings that sounded more folk / traditional but his playing embraced many things.
Hypnotic! I think there's something healing about Irish music - probably springing from the ancient Druidic knowledge. (See Michal Tsarion) Feel better for having listened to this - so I'm playing it again. On a technicaL NOTE - i see he has a tuner clipped on the headstock - I imagine that's a must for keeping this instrument in tune.
@zthetha Not really, they stay in tune as well as or maybe better than most string instruments I play. (Irish bouzouki, violin, mandolin, banjo, tenor guitar, flute, squeeze box and radio.) I have owned my Fender Irish Bouzouki for over 12 years and I change the strings as needed, have my Luther look it it every year or so and the rest of the time I just play, play and play. I own several tuners and I always keep them on the head of my instruments so I know where to look for them, daaa!
