Rather a good bluegrass session at The Six Bells last night. Not many people turned up but the few that were there were on grand form. This was the perfect occasion for me to use my groovy new recorder. I have a brain like a sieve and can never remember a tune for long. But I managed to record the lot which hopefully will be useful for practice.
I’m getting very rusty indeed on the banjo so I stuck mainly to mandolin. Someone once told me that if you improvise on a pentatonic scale along with any major key tune it usually sounds fine. I have to say this seemed to work out just fine. Technique is still very primitive but I managed to jam along relatively comfortably even taking a couple of breaks which I’d never have dared to do before.
The recording doesn’t sound to bad. I’ve still got to manage the art of getting the gain set correctly first. I’m coming to the conclusion I may as well just crank it up to max. and pray there isn’t too much distortion.