Mandolin is actually a super cool instrument, you have drop tuning on every string, so you can thrash away like crazy And the chords are awesome as heck
@@loiwoz in standard tuning to playba "powerchord" (a root and a fifth) you need to fret a string and then 2 frets up, a string down In extreme metal dropping the thickest string 2 "frets" down makes it easy to play a "powerchord" just by pressing one finger on the 2-3 thickest strings, hence Dropped tuning
Guitar guys trying the mandolin pretty much always go through this exact series of events, it's kind of funny seeing it happen the same way every time. The only major difference is whether they call it a trash instrument at the end or not, and it's about 50/50 on that one.
Could you do “when a guitarist plays orchestral strings for the first time” It could be a series Or it could just be violin Or viola, or cello, or upright bass, or harp but yak 🤷♀️
Southerners have a way of adopting musical instruments from different parts of the world. The mandolin was just some Italian instrument before Bill Monroe started playing bluegrass with it. I have an old mandolin somewhere that belonged to my great-grandfather, himself a son of Sicilian immigrants. Probably couldn’t play it, though. I think slide guitars started being used in country music after some touring Hawaiian musicians showed theirs off in the 1920s while the “Hawaiian aesthetic” was a trend.
I just dug up an old nandolin from our basement about a week ago and I've fallen in love with it. It's so fun to see someone else go through the exact things I did when i first started to play.
STOP PLAYING FORBIDDEN RIFFS ON EVERY INSTRUMENT YOUR FACE IS AT MY LOCAL GUITAR CENTER SAYING: “Do not let this man play on any stringed or keyboard instrument just let him play on the drums”
I’m a violinist learning guitar, and I made the mistake of letting a guitarist friend play my violin 😭 (I know it’s a different instrument, but oh god the amount of guitar sins that can be done to a violin…)
I feel so called out with the smoke on the water 😭 ive been trying to avoid it but a relative sent it to me and he’s basically my guitar teacher now so I felt obligated…. Please stand for the Guitar Center national anthem 😭😭😭 (i did steal that last line but its funny, ok? 😭)
Why is it not tuning? Is what happened to me, and a string broke. The mandolin is a fun way to get dyslexia. Losing My Religion is a good song to learn on it.
"what even is this instrument?" Just imagine a 12 string minus the low e and a strings. G'dae tuned up an octave. So it's not tuned for example e2,e3. It's tuned gg,dd,aa,ee, all one octave higher
Nah, that's an F style. Brazilian ones are bigger, with a round soundhole,little bit of a deeper sound almost mandola-ish, usually with fixed bridges, and some are 10 strings mandolins (5 courses). They look basically like tiny bouzoukis. I own one
@@leonie_gata_de_outono the mandolin in this video is an A-style mandolin, which have a teardrop shape. The F-style is similar but has decorative scrolls and points carved on the body and headstock. A little confusing, I know, as “F-style” refers to the shape of the body rather than the presence of f holes - you can have an F-style mandolin with a round sound hole too.
