Wanting to remember how recording1 even worked, I decided to cover this canadian tune at some point during last fall. Took me way longer than I care to admit to finally come up with something vaguely interesting, and I hated the sound I was getting, so I shelved the project. Had to plug in the microphone again last week for my last mandolin article, and I thought I'd try my hand at it again. Well, here's what I ended up with: I learned the tune at a local jam session about a year ago, and immediately fell in love with it. It's a dance piece, the kind where everyone just plays the melody over and over until everybody gets sick of it. I didn't expect that approach to work so well with only plucked strings, so I figured I'd turn it into a fiddle tune and have the intruments take turns improvising over it. Which turned out more difficult than I thought. It seems that the simpler the melody, the more I'll struggle to come up with interesting things while staying close to it. So that's…
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