Its time I learned to play the mandolin. I have decided to buy myself a mandolin & private lessons. Ive never touched a stringed instrument. I love the sound of a mandolin. Im so excited to learn & enjoy it.
My take: this was a perfect explanation to me. I slowed the speed down on the video and I could find my finger placement at a pace I could follow. I love it and I thank you. Please keep up the help, this old gal appreciates you🌺
The only thing I didn't know was the minor pentatonic scale at the end, but it was still a cool new thing to learn. good job condensing the info for beginners man! You pretty much covered all the bases for chord shapes; all the licks, scales, and jig/reel/bluegrass standard/double stop stuff can be learned by people who play things by ear or play off of tabs. keep up the great work!
I don’t play Mandolin, but coming from guitar this seems similar to a lot of the little mind-blow moments I had learn over time. Really informative video, it’s awesome to have so many actually useful ‘tricks and tips’ compiled
As someone interested in Bluegrass music I would add the four finger chop chord to the mix. It is a tough stretch of the fingers compared to the chord shapes in this video but it is also a moveable shape. If you move the shape up one pair of strings and play the upper (A, D, G) strings you can move that shape up and down the neck. Move one finger back a fret for all the minors. Switch two fingers between the two middle strings for 7th chords.
Thank u very much for this video! I recently picked up a wicked nice 1914 Gibson A1 but I’m a guitar player since a teen. Now at 51 I’m looking to pick up mandolin as everyone I know plays guitar. This was gr8 info man!!!
Just done the same thing( although my mandi isn't as cool as yours ) but have you found the guitar easier to play after playing the mandolin for a while.?.
This is really good stuff; I have huge hands so there's really only three major chords in first position that I can comfortably fret. So cool to have 12 majors and minors in two different inversions/registers! One niggle; this'd be a lot easier to hear if you'd recorded it indoors, in a quiet space.
This is great, thank you! I've been learning mandolin for a few years now as my first string instrument. This reminds me that I've got to get my pinky finger into the game -- it's been hanging out essentially doing nothing, the freeloader 😆
Ty: For that A major/minor chord, a single finger double stop is less strenuous (for the fretting hand) than a barre across all the strings. It is also unnecessary, as the other two pairs will be noted at higher frets anyway. Hope this helps.
Ill be sure to remember i watched this video the next time im at guitar center and i see a mandolin and i will not be able to find it or remember anything i learned but i will atleast attempt to bc thats the only place i think i might use this
I’m a pro guitar player. I’ve had a mandolin in the past, but had to sell when times got ruff. It really gave me lots of musical ideas. I thought about tuning it like a guitar. Any thoughts on this? Benefits, Negatives ? Thank you 🙏🏻
I wonder how the strings would do with the altered tensions since mandolins are usually tuned to 5ths and guitars to 4ths with a 3rd mixed in. You could probably get away with tuning it to 4ths like the 4 bottom strings of a guitar (or like a bass) and tune the 4th course up a whole step (G to A), leave the 3rd course alonen (D), and tune the 2nd and 1st courses down two whole steps each (A to F; E to C). Unless there are different gauge strings available for mandolins that could handle the adjustments to make it like the top 4 strings of a guitar, I'd avoid that route. Because from the standard tuning, you'd have to tune the 2nd course up a whole step (1 tone), the 3rd course up 5 half steps and the 4th course down 5 half steps. That's quite a jump. To tune it like the top 4 strings of a guitar, you might as well just get an ukulele.
i'm having trouble properly baring. idk why it just does not sound right. I have never played an instrament and have been playing mandolin for a few weeks
Thank you so much for this valuable lesson but you would even sound better if you re-produced this but your instrument (especially a mandolin) needs to be absolutely perfectly tuned and you have a couple that are not particularly on the top end. I thins the toughest string to tune and keep in tune is the 'A' string. I am constantly adjusting to tune perfectly. The mando just sounds magic in tune, but out of tune is not as pleasant as it should be. Always show your inst=rumnet the respect to be perfectly tuned. You are obviously well versed in theory but need to improve tuning. As a bonus, .......You'll like your instrument even more. thanks
You are the best teacher iv ever seen. Im gonna make so much fucking noise. My ketucky thats made in china gives you a th 3:08 ank you as well. Hats off your teaching days are on there way. Yee haw molllafallas. Thanks buddy helped me alot.
