Mike Butler's Jethro's Tune-MPEG-4 300Kbps

Mike Butler, Producer of A Tribute To James "Yank" Rachell CD, plays "Jethro's Tune" written by Jethro Burns on 5-String Electric Schwab Mandolin. Lightning fast runs; close-ups of fingerboard; good learning tool.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mandolin;
• Jethro;
• Burns;
• Jethro's
• Tune;
• Electric
• Jazz
• Mandolin
• instruction;
• Rachell

[09MikeButler]

Your are wrong. I have played mandolin for over 35 years. I am not "trying" to play fast. I am playing fast. The fact that you think someone who doesn't play mando could do this suggests that you don't know much about the mandolin. Jethro never played someone else's tune like it was written in a book. You should stick to reading Mel Bay and let real musicians do the pickin.

[09MikeButler]

You are right this is not Jethros Tune copied out of a book. It is my interpetation of the tune. After playing it a few thousand times the tune morphed into what you hear here. In fact, the B part is a take off on the lick in the Delmore Bros. tune, Freight Train Boogie as played by Doc Watson. The A part stretches Jethros tune from the highest A note on my mando down thru 3 octaves of Dm, the same key Jethro used. The tempo is much faster, but, the structure is the same as Jethros Tune.

[jerchap2]

Whether you think this is an interpretation of Jethro's tune or not, it is some great mandolin playing, very fast and clean, andy anyone who says otherwise is just plain jealous or ignorant. Unless you can play like this, you have no business making a critical comment!

[maestro3101]

i have to go with appletreemusic1 on this one, this sounds exactly like someone who doesn't play the mandolin, trying to play fast! i actually thought it was a joke at first. i would never believe that this person actually played through Jethro's Tune a few thousand times - much less a few dozen times!

[appletreemusic1]

i will just come right out and say it, this is not the learning tool that the description makes it out to be. in fact, the first note is the only thing this actually has in common with "Jethro's tune". unless, of course, you were referring to a different Jethro's Tune, other than the tune published in Mel Bay's Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book. i mean no harm, and do not wish to hurt anyone's feelings, i am only being fair and honest.

[resojoe]

Yank, Jethro, and Mike...yea!