Basic Mandolin Lesson "Irish Washerwoman"

[thatwazapdude]

It sounds Beyer slower

[wexwright]

Nicely explained - thanks.

[dynawolfy]

Im new to Mandolin and cant read music or tabs so this lesson was easy for me to follow,just a few chords i couldnt see what you were playing. cant thank you enough,cheersssssssssssssssss.

[wellusedtube]

I just got that same Mandilin...I really like it! I like to play it with a small amp sometimes too. thanks for the lesson.

[omoshiroidayo]

i always wondered why thisa americans mandolinists can all play s fast but its just the short pieces are hell easy! dont mind

[oldtrout111]

oh great, i got that song stuck in my head all day :).

I'm off to the music store to buy a mandolin, that will be my 2nd stringed instrument (i just hope i can play it) thanks for the video, very impressive!

[brokencrutches]

blew

my

mind

[rubiconyoufag]

I play guitar well, would I find it easier at all to play the mandolin?

[darkkristian22]

@rubiconyoufag mandolin is a little bit harder than guitar, but since u already play a string instrument you should pick it up fast

[omoshiroidayo]

i still dont understand all these vids americans put in showing witch frets 2 press. are thee too lazy to learn notes or at les TAB?

[jarmbru]

@omoshiroidayo At least a fair number of us know how to spell, and if we don't know the correct spelling we use a spelling checker. By the way, I read standard notation and tab, and I am also able to learn by ear. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

[maggieg19672]

when i herd u play the song in the beginning my jaw droped and i was just amazed at how fast vu could play it,lol

[CarmeluGilisi]

good job! q: when do you know you have to change the battery on this babe?

[apmason]

You played the whole song in about 20 seconds..... nice........

[apmasonALT]

Thanks!

[bigmac364]

So by DUDU..., do yall mean when each sort of riff kicks off with a lot of volume and then sort of tapers off.

like DUDUdududud DUDUdudud

,,,?

[BlackIbanezPower]

what is the tuning of a mandolin?

[apmason]

@BlackIbanezPower from lowest to highest G D A E all strings are doubled 

[IsraeLinoy]

Cool mandolin!! and nice playing :-)

[Dermott94]

I really like the color of your mandolin!

Oh and thank you for this video it helped me learn this song

[amazing181818]

Could you just post the tab in the explanation box or something? The link doesn't work.

[Zilthier]

Your like me, a guitarist. Most mandolin players don't use their pinkies much. I ALWAYS use mine haha

[heatmanable]

freakin nice job

[TEXMEXY]

Sound lovely mate,well done I have just started learning it ,it's not easy,u have inspired me!

[foolintherain116]

thanks a lot dude, and im probably wrong but that mando looks like it was made by ovation? i wasn't aware they even made mandolins. great video very helpful

[TheBobohj]

wow its funny im half irish but im terrible at the jig

[rglad07]

Why did you play it different when you played it fast then when you demonstrated how to play this piece???

[dafeltre]

the link to the TAB is dead

[RatherCrunchyMuffin]

Is that mandolin an Ovation or a Celebrity by chance?

[ENZOCONSTANTINE]

wow awesomme il try to learn that

[loon2u4fun]

Nice lesson and fun tune. Good for any repertoire. Using the forth finger on the fifth fret is easier for beginners but I would recommend using the ring finger

on the fifth fret in the first position. It will pay off in other tunes when you have to use the forth finger to play the 7/8th frets. Just a suggestion, I enjoyed learning this fiddle tune and am sure I will play it often.

[tigerslaya123]

hey im having trouble seeing wat u r doin could u send me the tabs

[Anna114xD]

@moudymnf its an ovation.

[moudymnf]

i wanna know the model of ur mandolin and which brand or music store u

[vinsk8er4life]

urrr goooooood :P

One question.. I dunno much about mandolins got a cheap greg benett myself, but the looks of your mandolin look like ovation guitars look... is it an ovation mandolin????

[daibret]

Brilliant!!!

I'm a beginner so it's kinda hard to imagine the difference btw DUDUDU... and DUD-DUD... It would be great if you can play the DUD-DUD version and post it here on youtube.

[hiddengarry]

Great video really enjoyed it. How about a new one with the DUD DUD picking directions. Even on a mandolin DUDU is more natural but Jigs really need the DUD DUD.

[scoutniagara]

I think you have some wrong notes in part B. Some of the notes sound flattened. Try listening to the CelticMandoDude's version. Otherwise, well done.

[scoutniagara]

Ok, I'm new to the mandolin...have 12 guitars, and U degree in vocal music. You are playing some wrong flattened? notes in part B. Good job otherwise.

Listen to this beautiful rendition and hear the difference by the CelticMandoDude.

[bumbababumba]

you are a BIG man than for your kindness

[C0rpsezilla]

Lol, "mando"

[jsprada]

Hi there, I love your version of this, and just bought a mandolin yesterday. This is the first song I'm learning on it, too. Do you by chance have a reference to tab for the version you're playing here? Thank you for posting this.

[rustler540]

Very cool,I like your mandolin and I hate critics,awesome job and it sounds real cool.

[ccmo23]

Thanks! One thing to add... your fingering is incorrect for a Mandolin. You play it like a guitar player (I know because I am one too) 5th fret should be fingered with your ring finger.

[stepasqu]

lesson worked but is very difficult and frustrating to follow (I MUST HAVE WATCHED THE SECOND PART 400 TIMES) . i can play the song now tho so ty for post.

[rubygoldworthy22]

Hard to believe this is two years old. I doubt you'll even see this. I'm brand new to mandolin, too (with little guitar experience) so I wish you would play this more slowly and be sure to keep the other fingers out of the way so that we can see which fret you use. It would be nice for you to name each note, too. Still, I'll figure it out eventually. Thanks. I'm jealous.

[kemz1969]

Could you put up the tabs?

[kemz1969]

I'm just learning mandolin - but I have a hard time with the right hand. I learn one hand at a time. Does anyone else learn that way???

[Drud14]

thank you very much for this

[TheCries007]

show the tabs please....i can't get where u put ur fingers

[23INFORMATION23]

I found some tabs online, and well, they didn't quite sound right, so I played it by ear instead, then found this video and see now that all my notes were right. Thanks :)

[WelcomeToSF]

thats an Applause right?

It really looks like the Applause ukulele

[mattymuchacho]

holy shit, so glad i looked at this, i'm going to learn this as hard as i can.

[sosome57]

Youtube will probably boot me for this, but here goes. Rather than slow down on your video, folks can download VLC Media Player, use Youtube Downloader to download your videos. Play them in VLC Media Player and you can slow the video down in small or large increments. Works great, the pitches do not change, but the video slows down. At a point, the sound will degrade and sound echoy (is that a word?), but you can slow the video down to a crawl. Hope that helps someone. I do this all the time.

[edelahaye]

The melody is wrong. X: 1 T: Irish Washerwoman, The M: 6/8 L: 1/8 R: jig K: G |:BGG DGG|BGB dcB|cAA EAA|cAc edc| BGG DGG|BGB dcB|cBc Adc|BGG G3:| |:gdd Bdd|gdg bag|fdd Add|fdf agf| egg dgg|cgg BgB|cBc Adc|BGG G3:|

[mikkeljuelgregersen]

is it possible to get a tablature of that tune?

[greenbrad182]

how much do mandolin's cost?

[666VAPULA666]

From $50 to $110 000 on ebay

[croweviolinist]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

That song is also part of a show called "The Irish And How They Got That Way" which is playing right now (thru March 2010) at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. It's a musical with bunches of traditional Irish music and history/folklore. Come see it!

[lil0JoE]

What the company of that mandolin?

[guitargenius1234]

Ovation Guitars.

[bancifaill]

does anyone else cringe everytime he says "mando" lol jk man...

but good tutorial...

[greyatheart]

i have a hard time using my pinky :P

[BipBidibipBidibip]

Hello, I discovered and leaned that song with your video, so thank you very much! It's really fun to play.

[evadnarf]

Your comment about "alternate picking" brought up something I'd not really thought about before. I've only had a mandolin fo a couple of weeks. I went away and tried to introduce it into my playing and was amazed at just how important it is with this instrument and how it has almost instantly given me more speed in my playing. Thanks a lot. Dave , Liverpool

[sheeplikesganja]

i cant stop playing this now :P

[rudedude13]

nice tutorial video..

[AdrienGuitarPlayer]

what gauge strings do you have on there? i have my action pretty low, but they were real hard to press down

[EricBlues]

Indeed. A classic bad habit guitar players pick up on the mandolin.

[Thralllinian]

if you can already play guitar how fast can you pickup the mando any faster?

[gawa4002]

it helps to know another instrument, otherwise it's the same.

[AdrienGuitarPlayer]

a mandolin is tuned G D A E so its like an upside down guitar. i play guitar and i'm getting a mandolin pretty soon.

[DoomMarco666]

Dude ive been playing the Mandolin for exactly 1 week. ANd thanx to your video I learned this great song in no time. ITs super easy.

[gk1219]

hope you didn't learn it in that fingering, thats totally wrong

[br9486]

Thanks alot.. this helped me out tons!!!

[absalom1517]

I really appreciate this video but you moved a little fast for me during the instruction. I guess that's why they gave us a pause button though.

[willymd]

Thanks Rubberhead! Also a guitar player switching to mando as my ears still buzz from too many loud gigs. I'm not sure I get what the last guy said, but very used to shifting positions from playing guitar, so I really like your method. Hope you post many more!

[davidablair]

Cool post Rubberhead! I should figure out how to post a reply video. I would suggest a couple things to make it easier. Like, this song has 2 parts, both played with 1st finger 2nd fret and 3rd finger 5th fret; A part on strings 2-3,B part strings 1-2. The 2nd finger plays 3rd fret, 4th finger on the 7th fret-B part. The point of all this is to play faster/smoother, easier if your fingers stay on the strings. The B part plants 2nd finger 3rd, rolling it to 2nd string, back. Double shuffle bow.

[briancolhoun]

great

[mongowatneymeyer]

Hey this really helped me a lot! Thanks!

[dbarbour13]

good playing crap teaching!

[woopertdebear]

Thank you

[gk1219]

mandolin players would start with the 3rd finger, the fourth finger plays the 7th and 8th frets

[atrickpay11]

Wicked. Your left-hand technique looks very nice.

[coffeebigplz]

I am going to guess it is an ovation.

[lautoo]

nice mandolin!! what brand ?

[dunlop2069]

What you play fast doesnt really match up with what you play slow, you add more notes fast.

[mewesbrian]

tabs shmabs. i vow to learn this song and drink beer wile i do it

[sagessence]

what if my pinkie is missing , can I still play this??

[madramaith]

1 constructive criticism comment for you here: when playing a jig your right hand should do DUD DUD so that you get proper "lilt" in the tune. To my ear, as an Irish person who plays trad music, your fast version lacks the "lilt" that makes a jig a jig in the first place.

[RubberheadJams]

great advice! I tried it and it definitely gives it more of a bounce. Being a guitar player, alternate picking (DUDUD...) is what comes most natural.

[AdonijahAvenged]

@RubberheadJams I'd love to hear the DUD DUD version if you get the time to post it.

[ksikkeng]

@RubberheadJams

I am just starting to learn mandolin. I don't get the difference between DUDUD and DUD DUD.

[barachoisboy]

I would have to disagree with the original comment. You were a beginner you said...it wasn't sloppy...it lacked style which is what comes with time and experience. I know for myself, when I first learn a song, It sounds the same way....but after playing it for a while the style takes care of itself. I can only speak for myself, but I try not to think about all the down up down up, and focus more on the fretboard....eventually the picking falls into place.

[eloosivegem]

@madramaith Can you please explain this in very simple terms what this means? I am a very new mandolin player and would like to play this jig lilty. =) I don't know what a DUD is.

[madramaith]

@eloosivegem DUD DUD = the direction your pick stroke when picking the notes of this tune, so "D"= down and "U"= up. When playing a jig you want to put emphasis on the first and fourth note, so using the picking pattern of DUD DUD helps achieve that .

[hhold]

@madramaith

Hi, can alternate picking be an alternative to the DUD DUD you advocate? I took a couple of lessons from Declan Corey and he uses alternate picking i.e. DUDUD all the time. thanks

[ObiMatKenobi]

why do you need tabs for this? just looks at his playing^^ he's doing it that slow so one can see what he's playing. Thanks for the vid! helped a lot :)

[Thyirishmen]

do you have tab's for this i found some but each are different variations.

[reptiliox]

Thanks for making this

[rambongo]

do u mind tellin me what the standard tuning is for the mandolin? starting from the bass string

[gregoryajones]

GDAE

[egutw]

can you give me the tabs for this song ??

its really cool ???

please?

[savagedgod]

hey man like your version any chance of a link to the tab all the 1's i find are different

[rockstothebass]

ah, an ovation mandolin. Very nice.

I have one myself, it's my "good" mandolin considering my other mandolin is that $80 Rogue-starter mando.

[UJS8X]

AHH the Rogues are terrible I'm so mad I bought one. They get out of tune on the first damn chord! arrghghhhh....

[nader112389]

where do you buy your strings for that mandolin? i can't find them at the music store i go to. that mandolin has balls at the end of the strings as opposed to loops, am i right?

[RubberheadJams]

I can't find them either. I just take the ball off of other strings and put them in the loop end. It's a pain in the arse, but it works!

[nader112389]

haha wow i never thought of that, thanks!

[familyguyquag]

@RubberheadJams pretty sure elixer makes a pair with balls on the ends :)

[PeluMaad]

@RubberheadJams ...elderly music....on line.....has ball end mandolin strings....probably just strings too...

[cormackjames]

@nader112389 buy mandolin strings from Amazon ,thats where I get mine.

[4toymachine4]

Awesome! Thanks for the lesson! You teach well

[4crows]

cool...you are a good teacher.. a lot of people teach too fast...any more?