ldvries | Lil' King Of Everything - Los Lobos (cover) on an Octave Mandolin @ldvries | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
To make my mandolin family complete, I finally finished an octave mandolin: tuned like a mandolin, but an octave lower (G-D-A-E).
It was only after I tried to figure out how to play this tune on this instrument, that I realized that the original is not played on an octave mandolin, or indeed on anything mandolin-like at all. The original is in the key of G, and this ended up in D.
There are a few videos with David Hidalgo playing it, but his fingering is completely different. He plays something that looks like a small classical guitar, but (as far as I can make out) is modified to be an 8-string baritone ukulele.
I does seem to work on this thing too, though. The only problem is that I'm now tempted to build an 8-string baritone uke as well...
To make my mandolin family complete, I finally finished an octave mandolin: tuned like a mandolin, but an octave lower (G-D-A-E).
It was only after I tried to figure out how to play this tune on this instrument, that I realized that the original is not played on an octave mandolin, or indeed on anything mandolin-like at all. The original is in the key of G, and this ended up in D.
There are a few videos with David Hidalgo playing it, but his fingering is completely different. He plays something that looks like a small classical guitar, but (as far as I can make out) is modified to be an 8-string baritone ukulele.
I does seem to work on this thing too, though. The only problem is that I'm now tempted to build an 8-string baritone uke as well...
