Whiskey Before Breakfast - Mandolin

[@edgarkroll5650]

Sehr schönes und federleichtes Spiel. Trotz der Virtuosität. Ich freue mich auf weitere Lieder. 😊

[@genesishandboards]

I've been picking this tune for over 20 years and never get tired of hearing others interpretations. Well done! It's funny how we all have our versions

[@hammingdad1]

Ok so I'm a 66 year old amateur mando player and this is my favorite tune. And your rendition is now officially my favorite. I can not help but comment on your smile though because it happens to be part of the performance. The only other time I have ever seen that kind of knowing "I'm gonna nail this and also have fun with this piece of music" type smile was in the video of Alison Krauss in a recording booth nailing Wexford Carol for YoYo Ma. Anyway I'm going to slow this down and learn it. I only just discovered your channel today.

[@k5mando]

Thanks for watching! Really appreciate the kind words too :)

[@user-fl8kc9hs1x]

That's Terrific! Love the smooth flow of your music and your picking is so clean. Bravo!!

[@k5mando]

Thanks a lot!

[@rolandnewton3086]

Absolute perfection! So smooth and clear. Love it!

[@johnford7847]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

[@natescape]

So so good! Kylie, you're such an inspiration. I'm trying to get to a point where I can start building out tunes from the inside out like you do, and it's really tough but so rewarding when things even just barely start to click. You're my hero for giving us the privilege of watching your deep expertise at work in such a clear and accessible way!

[@k5mando]

Ah thanks so much Nate! Really appreciate it :)

[@alan4sure]

Play it very slowly and figure out vaiations at slow speeds first.

[@denisemannino]

Awesome! Nice, tasty variations!

[@waynebagley]

Wow. Yes.

[@JustTwoGuysIreland]

Waw that's beautiful well done 👏 😊

[@RichAtNaxos]

Very nice touch.

[@MarkMcCluney]

Most enjoyable and loads of ideas. Thanks so much!

[@highlonesome-coloradobluegrass]

What a great player! Thanks for sharing !

[@jacquelinelewis3131]

Nice player. Lovely and gentle

[@dr.p3637]

You play very beautifully!!! Inspiring! 🙂

[@FeelsLikeSunshine]

I keep coming back to this video, such great playing!

[@arthurmccarron4379]

You are. Great. Player. Love. This tune. Great. Approach. Thanks

[@davidmolloy126]

Hiya Kylie, I love your videos and reviews, and you always so obviously enjoy it. Thanks very much. Xxx

[@noelplouffe6245]

My dear Kylie I happen on this video when I was trying to remember how Whiskey Before Breakfast started then I remembered how much I enjoyed your KZbin channel. Your musicianship is impeccable.

[@paullyle3461]

Beautiful Thanks for sharing 🎶❣️🎵😎

[@85rockhound]

Very nice! Thanks!

[@willcooper7345]

Very impressive and a nice rendition! Congratulations!

[@clarkemontford1382]

That is the heart of technique, mastery and instrument. Wowee

[@thelonglife5772]

Beautiful x Beautiful

[@Gods2ndFavoriteBassPlyr]

Really well done. Beautiful instrument.

[@shawnallenvicker7729]

Very nice🎯

[@relyk4277]

Beautiful, really tasteful tempo. I've heard this song faster but this was more lyrical and dynamic. Bravo!

[@mb4716]

Great style, sounds great 🙂

[@jamlane]

This is so beautiful!

[@grkuntzmd]

I recently found this tune for fingerstyle ukulele (low G) and love it. I'm not sure I ever heard it before about 1 month ago. Nice mandolin version!

[@maclovioberumen1917]

I don't know about drinking whiskey before breakfast but ask me about drinking whiskey for breakfast. 😊 🤣🤣🤣

[@pertinaciousD]

Nice take on a classic. I like you’re picking technique.

[@NSResponder]

Superb!

[@BeyondGuitar]

well played

[@battlehrfred]

lovelyyyyy

[@brandondarrin4947]

Truly amazing. It's going to take me 3 years to play it like this.

[@alan4sure]

Just 33 months left😊

[@robertkelly8355]

Enjoy the journey!

[@patrick4625]

Sounds wonderful! 😊🙏

[@k5mando]

Thank you!

[@billton12]

played to perfection! thanks for posting. your Northfield has such great tone and sustain. I’m envious!

[@k5mando]

Thanks Bill! :)

[@beckydampier8805]

Which model northfield is this? Amazing tone!!! Great mando!

[@andrewjohnson1573]

Looks to be a NF-F5s. I could be wrong, but pretty sure.

[@musdoc]

Excellent

[@adrianmuirhead9593]

Sweet playing...most excellent

[@billymcguiremusic]

Such a wonderful cover! I think I might have to learn it!

[@alan4sure]

Got it? You've had a month.

[@douglashanson4780]

love it

[@FunsongsMusicByPeterRahill]

927th LIKE; already 34K+ listen/views. Delightful tone out of that mandolin - good ear-candy.

[@demolitionwilliams7419]

Wow! Well done! I'm gonna have to throw some of those licks in my guitar version

[@mandolin8297]

yep - a mandolin played like a guitar is not a mandolin -

[@demolitionwilliams7419]

@@mandolin8297 True. You have some tasteful notes in sequences that sound great on a guitar as well! Thanks for your video! Keep it up

[@quanahthompson6000]

This is going to be the next instrument I learn to play. You have convinced me young lady. 😉

[@k5mando]

Haha that's great to hear! I hope you enjoy it!

[@jason_learns]

Great job! I'm learning this one now. It's such a hoot to play on the banjo, I can't wait to get a feel for it on the mandolin.

[@bruceprigge5212]

Thanks! That’s beautiful! 😊

[@sanumusic007]

[@戴岭]

THAT WAS

[@戴岭]

Give us

[@戴岭]

You're

[@hammingdad1]

Wow.. on my 10th listen. This is very Adam Steffey-ish but different too. Just excellent.

[@k5mando]

Thank you :)

[@larrybarnes1241]

Awesome

[@alanbouet-willaumez1390]

Your music flows freely like a wild and fresh river. It is a pleasure to listen to.

[@AlaneMichelle]

You can tell how much you enjoy playing this! :)

[@k5mando]

Ah that's great, I do love playing! Thanks for watching:)

[@alexkendall9809]

I've always considered this to be one of the quintessential mandolin pieces :') and you play it beautifully!

[@k5mando]

I love most D tunes on the mando, and this is a great one! A staple for sure. Thanks very much!

[@alexkendall9809]

@@k5mando me too :) probably my favourite key haha. Like St Annes and 8th of January. Whiskey has always been one of my absolute favourites!

[@SteffenEm]

The way you smile while playing. So wholesome to watch 😊

[@bolesawgilewicz7786]

👍👍👍

[@bethharvey5213]

WOW this is the best i have heard yet. Kylie i am a new to the Mandolin. I am just going to buy a Mandolin but not sure what to buy the A-style, F-style or the hollow body same shape guitar in middle (circular)

[@YourUncleMorty]

Very nice job little gal

[@mellissadalby1402]

Nice! That's another one I'm going to copy off of you. I especially like the way YOU do it.

[@marcjakout]

Great ! :)

[@vincentkeith1800]

I like the banjo but this sounds more better

[@tulljethro5381]

I think I’m in love

[@scaliscro1541]

Kylie Kay is the best mandolin player I have come across. An absolute joy to listen to and watch. Thank you

[@clemkelly2159]

❤❤❤

[@fabioperuzzo4230]

Bravissima ciao

[@kokindenom]

Whoua fan ☆☆☆☆♡♡♡

[@fabman132]

and me sitting here with my stick-dulcimer guitar in absolutel awe....rethinking my hobbies....

[@IVANBRASIL77]

after appreciating it, I ran out to drink quickly a whiskey before the breakfast.

[@Judymontel]

❤

[@GaragebandandBeyond]

You sound great and the mandolin does too. Which model is it?

[@k5mando]

Thank you! It is a Northfield F5S with an Engelmann top :)

[@gregmccracken386]

Beautiful! Hey, what flat top mandolin do you have on the wall behind you?

[@k5mando]

It’s an Irish bouzouki :) nothing fancy, just something I got from Thomann to try it out.

[@baruah1208]

Ma'am I m in need of this piece of Mandolin. How can I have this? I m from India

[@CSchaef02]

Great playing! I’m 99% sure someone has asked this before, but what Northfield model is that?

[@gezortenplotz]

Serene mandolin mastery. The 10,000 practice hours to gain expertise shines through.

[@walterperry4565]

My dad was an oldtime fiddler and a Democrat.

[@ApolloAntiques]

Oughta get a rich man to vote like that. Or, whatever Alabama said ❤.

[@stephendowning6234]

I'm so moved by your playing. Wow.

[@mandolin8297]

(These remarks and observations are geared toward fellow mandolin players - so you don't fit that category of reader and you're easily impressed with a flurry of notes move on and don't read this.) My problem with this style or approach is guitar-based rather than fiddle-based. I think I'm hearing Tony Rice but a mandolin instead of a guitar. There are no dynamics - the sound production is soft and pretty but monochromatic because the pick is working just above the end of the fretboard and never moves back toward the bridge. Watch a banjo player's right hand to understand how the sound changes when the strings are plucked up at or above the end of the fretboard versus closer to the bridge. But this is the popular style of the day but it's very limited sonorally and even rhythmically. I do like the addition of the triplets to break up the monotony.

[@k5mando]

Sincere thanks for your comment! It’s actually really interesting because a lot of what you mention I’ve really been thinking about over the past several months now and I’m continually trying to add in more dynamic, musicality, variety, and personality in my playing. It’s certainly a work in progress but I like posting videos to keep track of progress, not necessarily as perfected “end of the road” products. I also look back on videos and think of things I’d like to change and be better at, and my taste and knowledge changes over time. So it’s honestly refreshing and helpful to hear different perspectives, like the one you’ve shared. Thanks for that :) cheers!

[@v2807]

@kchristianson8297 what is the name of your KZbin channel, so we can watch some examples of fiddle based dynamic playing we can aspire to?

[@stevenquing3228]

Ooh dam he said ur guitar based not fiddle based the audacity 😂

[@Mandolin_Matt]

Everyone has an opinion, I guess, but I can’t help feeling that the original comment came from a desire to be critical rather than objective. There are plenty of dynamics present in Kylie’s playing, with interesting builds towards a complex line which are then balanced by an open strum to break the tension. Some really cool syncopated sections, too, and plenty of flourish with triplets, hammer-ons, blue notes, varied melodic lines, etc. The Northfield has a nice, dark, woody (not ‘muted’) tone, and Kylie’s style brings a nice, slightly delicate, lively bounce to a well-worn fiddle tune. I see and hear a unique style, which is a wonderful thing and is in no way deficient. Kylie - keep up the awesome playing!

[@davidbacon4206]

There are no solutions- just conversations. So - my response is to say that I have been following Kylie for years - she is the reason I bought a Northfield mandolin - she is the reason I love fiddle tunes - she is the player I will always return to when I want to hear interesting harmonic and rhythmic variations on old standards. This is also my favorite version of WBB. In short - I love Kylie’s approach to playing. The rest does not matter.

[@mandolin8297]

oh Kylie - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - beg, borrow, or steal a decent mandolin - that Northfield Chinese box is just a brick and 3/4s of the depth of sound production that your skill level can produce is totally lost. A Chinese mandolin is a Chinese mandolin is a Chinese mandolin and no matter how much money one throws away on one the sound production simply is NOT there. Save up, go to every relative and beg for an advance on your next 5 birthdays and Christmases and buy an American-made instrument built by someone who knows how to carve and tone-tap the top - someone with American ears who knows what a good mandolin should sound like. You can teach a Chinese luthier how to carve and cut the wood but you can't give them American ears needed to HEAR what an American mandolin is supposed to sound like. And there is no such thing as a mandolin that has "a decent sound for the money." Mandolins aren't cheap - esp the F-models - so you can't find anything truly "decent" for less than 6K. PLEASE get yourself a good mandolin!

[@LaFinDuM0nde]

I hope that someday you are able to find joy in music.

[@f5mando]

Bostin version, that! I enjoyed this very much. I've been wondering, is your NF is Engelmann or Adirondak topped?

[@k5mando]

Thank you! It is Engelmann :)

[@f5mando]

@@k5mando Ha! I KNEW it! I just won a $5.00 bet on that! Cheers, m'dear!