Mandolin Minute

Mandolin Minute

By Ron McKinnonMusic
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Mandolin Minute episodes

  • #AudioMo 01 "The Butterfly"
    In the month of June there's this #AudioMo challenge happening where participants are tasked with recording a piece of audio every day. I'm going to partake, recording pieces from my repertoire that could use a bit of ... ahem ... rehearsal.
    2 min
  • 28. Musical Notation Software
    In this episode I talk a bit about software used in writing out music notation on the computer.
    References
    The "powerless podcast" piece in notation and tabs:
    https://www.instagram.com/p/BiuLSqNAbYJ/
    The StaffPad demo: (très cool!)
    https://youtu.be/D_PgKyqE3RU
    The Session website:
    https://thesession.org/tunes/1113
    6 min
  • 27. Advantages and Pitfalls of Sight Reading
    Where I talk about the differences between learning a piece by ear or by using sheet music.
    The musical number is this tune I heard played by someone on YouTube. Here's the version that inspired my rendition for comparison:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4csYgR39SR8
    6 min
  • 25. Mandolin Reinvented
    What prompted the redesign of the mandolin in the early 20th century and how has its status changed over the years?
    These questions and more answered in today's episode of the Mandolin Minute.
    4 min
  • Entr'acte: Trois Gnossiennes
    With the recording of the last of the trilogy, here are Erik Satie's three Gnossiennes collected together for your listening pleasure.
    I hope you like these, I enjoyed making them.
    (Originally featured in episodes 14, 18 and 24).
    8 min
  • 24. Trilogy
    Rounding out the trilogy, here is my rendition of Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 3. I added some chord tones to the melody to fill out the sound.
    4 min
  • 23. Podcasting on the go
    It's not always possible to have a digital audio workstation handy so for those circumstances recording on the go is always a possibility. Here's a brief chat about this.
    Pieces: Early Renaissance Song • Under the Breton Sky • The Morris Dance • Pan's work in progress
    7 min
  • Now on Anchor 3
    Anchor is the platform upon which these podcasts are assembled and disseminated. They recently went through a major upgrade. This episode was recorded on v2 and then podcast via v3. Also contains an Irish reel to commemorate St-Patrick's day.
    3 min

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With Ron McKinnon. If you geek out on minutiæ regarding music interpretation, history, acoustics and theory (and seriously who doesn't?) I invite you to join me on the Mandolin Minute.