13) Crossing Trains

Crossing Trains (mp3) (pdf) (tab)

Trains were crossing in the Westerbroeksemadepolder. Those Swiss made "GTW-Spurt" trains are passing by a couple of time's every hour. You can't miss those diesel trains when you cross the cyclepath at the right side of it. When I was a child I always wondered why passing trains sounded so strange. The "Dopplereffect" make the pitch of the train sound higher when they're coming towards you while the pitch lowers when they're moving away from you. The idea to make an intrumental tune with that effect resulted in my new bluegrass tune "Crossing Trains". But Bluegrass isn't Bluegrass without a banjo and I was lucky that my friend "Banjohanna" helped me out with the banjopart. As you can hear she is a great banjoplayer and after I mixed the tune together I'm not sure whether it became a mandolin or a banjotune. It's up to you.

12) Circus Luurtieful

Circus Luurtieful (mp3) (pdf) (tab)

Every holiday I experience the same thing. While camping in the Netherlands you have to be limber, you have to show a lot of tricks to get al simple domestic work done and there is always a lot of public. The need of a big tent makes the whole picture complete. It's definitely a circus. But I like this circus and I like my holiday in the dunes close to the Northsea.

11) Chain of Daisies

Chain of Daisies (mp3) (pdf) (tab)

I made those chains when I was a little kid. When I was noodlin' around with this tune I suddenly remembered my aversion towards soccer. Being a goalkeeper was the only thing I could keep up doing. There were always a lot of daisies in the field so I could do something creative while the other kids ran after the ball.

10) A Lost Goose

A Lost Goose (mp3) (pdf) (tab)

Geese go everywhere. They travel a lot between the cold North and the warm South. Mostly they are in a big group but sometimes you see a small group. Sometimes one goose doesn't want to travel any further. Maybe he was born there or he likes the place too much, I don't know. He becomes destituted from the group just the way I did last March. I left my bluegrassband and wrote this tune. In the mp3 I'm playing the tune with my sister on the violin.

9) Windless Sailing

Windless Sailing (mp3) (pdf) (tab)

Why worry when you're in the middle of a lake with your sailing ship. You'll never find a more relaxing place than in the middle of a lake with no wind.

8) Please Take a Seat

Please Take a Seat (mp3) (pdf) (tab)

Last winter I was walking at the surfspot by the Zuidlaardermeer. Walking helps me to get my head empty sometimes, and to get inspiration for a new tune. I had listened to John Reischmann and the Jaybirds and noticed the gentle way that band plays somewhat easy tunes in such a lovely way. I tried to create a tune with the same feeling. I don't know if it worked, but I think the tune has some potential. Finding a name for the tune was not that easy, until I saw the name on the surfboard in front of the lake. Take it easy and sit down and watch the lake. Really a name that is suitable for this relaxing kind of tune. I took a new picture with a flying kitesurfer on a windy day in september 2017.

7) Sinner Demon Breakdown

Sinner Demon Breakdown (mp3) (pdf) (tab)

This is a strange tune. I decided to make a tune especially for my "Sinner Demon" recumbent bike. Every year I spend a lot of time cycling while commuting to my Job. I would say something like 4000 km a year at least. It had to be a sort of roadtune like I remembered from the Sega Outrun videogame in the 80's. Not that I was cycling that fast, but I loved the atmosphere in that game when I was a kid. Someone on the mandolincafe said, I call this genre "Spacegrass" and I think it suits this tune very well.