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A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant (scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords. Sometimes the V 7 chord is used instead of V, for greater tension.
Most bluegrass mandolin players choose one of two styles. Both have flat or nearly flat backs and arched tops. The so-called a-style mandolin has a teardrop-shaped body; the f-style mandolin is more stylized, with a spiraled wooden cone on the upper side and a couple of points on the lower side.
The guitar zither (also chord zither, fretless zither, [1] [2] mandolin zither [3] or harp zither [4]) is a musical instrument consisting of a sound-box with two sets of unstopped strings. One set of strings is tuned to the diatonic , chromatic , or partially chromatic scale and the other set is tuned to make the various chords in the principal ...
[3] Outside, the US, the United Kingdom RCA label released the recording as a 78 rpm single, catalog number 1086. This recording charted in the UK at number 13, in Germany at number 13, [ citation needed ] in Belgium at number 1, and in Italy at number 4.
mandolin part on Grateful Dead's Friend of the Devil [154] [155] Levon Helm, The Band; Chris Hillman, The Byrds, mandolin part of Sweet Mary; Ray Jackson, [156] mandolin part of Rod Stewart's Maggie May, Lindisfarne (band) John Paul Jones (United Kingdom), [157] Led Zeppelin, mandolin part of Gallows Pole [158] Bernie Leadon (United States)
Irish bouzouki (Octave mandolin) Italy: Calabrian Lira (Calabria) Chitarra battente ("knocking guitar") Chitarrone; Liuto cantabile (Naples) Mandolin (Mandolin family)
The Greek laouto or laghouto (long-necked lute) is similar to a mandocello, ordinarily tuned C 3 /C 2 –G 3 /G 2 –D 3 /D 3 –A 3 /A 3 with half of each pair of the lower two courses being tuned an octave high on a lighter gauge string. The body is a staved bowl, the saddle-less bridge glued to the flat face like most ouds and lutes, with ...
The Pizza Tapes is an album by Jerry Garcia (acoustic guitar, vocals), David Grisman (), and Tony Rice (acoustic guitar). It was recorded at Grisman's studio on two evenings in 1993, and features unrehearsed performances of folk and bluegrass songs.