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This is my first Youtube video up load. It's a tune called Karmic Relief.  I am a big fan of solo jazz guitar and using that as my inspirtational base I compose for solo mandolin. 

I am a big fan of the solo jazz guitar masters. It is with them in mind when I composed this tune called Smooth Accelerator.

I don't compose very many finger picking tunes.  My family and I were on a camping trip on Prince Edward Island and I was trying come up with a version of Freight Train and this came out instead. Why fight the creative spirit.

I am of Irish/French Acadian descent so I guess Celtic music is in my veins.  This tune is called Jumping into the Fray.  Everytime I tried to compose a jig something else came out.  When composed this one I guess I got carried away because ended up having four parts to it.

I have played virtually from time I started playing guitar.  Several years ago I injured the ring finger on my fretting hand so I simply played slide while it was on the mend.  What I found afterward was that in open E tuning the pentatonic "blues" box patterns (with a little massaging) had this middle eastern sound.  So I came up with this and called it Arabic Slide.

Of course I'm a rocker from way back.  I thought it might be cool to do an acoustic version of Voodoo Child.

I grew up with my Dad playing slide guitar which he called Hawaiin style so slide are deep in my brain.  This tune sounded spiritual to me so I called it Church.

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