Welcome to my YouTube channel, a companion to my website "The Irish Mandolin" www.theirishmandolin.com The channel is aimed at those with a yen to learn to play Irish Traditional Music on the mandolin or, indeed, those who wish to expand their repertoire. The channel features a mix of the various musical forms - reels, jigs, hornpipes, mazurkas, polkas, marches - and you'll find some session standards sitting alongside some less well-known but, in my opinion, glorious tunes. I aim to post at least one "new" tune and one "revisited" tune every day (but I sometimes post more!). Each video features mandolin tablature and sheet music so that you can play along with the tune. I'm happy to consider requests for tunes which you can't find here - provided of course that the tune is one which you're likely to encounter in an Irish music session and provided it's within my abilities. Just add a comment to any of the tune learning videos or to any of the posts in the "community" section.