Andina Mandolin Music

Cesar showing me the "San Juanito" style of Andina music on a Ecuadorian mandolin. I took this video in the Mercado Artisanas in Quito summer of 2006, when I saw him in 2007 he said he was leaving the country for a year and would return to the market in 2008.Like many musicians from Otavalo, he often travels all over the world to perform as a street musician.

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• Andina
• Quito

[godril90]

wowo fantastic!!!!

this song has a title?? do you have make this song on your own or it exsisted before you?? :D i would really like to know

[charangito]

@godril90 The song does indeed have a title but I forgot it by the time I put it up here on youtube. I was having my friend Cesare play it so I could film his fingers in order for me to learn, I would have shown his face if I would known that it would end up here. I hope to see him again soon and post more from him since it is so popular. Maybe thelp him make his own youtube page, if he has not already done so.

[charangito]

@godril90 The song does indeed have a title but I forgot it by the time I put it up here on youtube. I was having my friend Cesare play it so I could film his fingers in order for me to learn, I would have shown his face if I would known that it would end up here. I hope to see him again soon and post more from him since it is so popular. Maybe thelp him make his own youtube page, if he has not already done so.

[RatherCrunchyMuffin]

Do you yourself own one of these five course mandolins? Are they tuned in fourths like an eight course mandolin?

[charangito]

@RatherCrunchyMuffin I own the mandolin in the video! A month before, I asked Cesare if he could get me an Andina style mando and he said that his cousin, a luthier, could build one - I picked it up at his booth in Quito's Mercado Artisanas and he was taking it for a "test drive" as I took the clip. It IS tuned as a regular mandolin the top two (thick, bass strings) are doubled but the bottom two are triple.

[JumpOffTheTWarf]

Bad ass dude, god job!

[Chichiri520]

@godril90

I found it! I think it's called Yurac Malki, it's here /watch?v=fuOKVNBHQYg

[imperioindigena]

@Chichiri520 hell yeah good work fella, you just found it!!!!

[Savage6s]

This song is way better on the mandolin. You should get a longer recording with better sound, I can't stop listening to this.

[Chichiri520]

@godril90

This song is somewhere on youtube, I heard it once before on here but I dont remember where >_<"

[mbuckley20]

man i wanna learn this song, his fingers are to fast for me at this point haha