Hello everyone!
So, I play guitar, I have tried to learn mandolin, but my giant hands are always an issue (I have a size 17 ring finger). I have tried so many different mandolins and my playing always seems limited by the size of the mandolin.
I am a big fan of Sierra Hull and I noticed how often she uses a Mandola in her music. I then started to search and saw so many people using the Mandola for Bluegrass.
I bought a Mandola! Victory! it's perfect for my hands and I am in love.
Problem, there are no books for Mandola for Bluegrass nor for Americana nor Roots.
So, help a new Mandola player artist out, please. Can anyone point me to books, videos, tab (I don't read music) for jumpstarting my learning to play Mandola for Bluegrass?
Hey Daryl.
I assume you want to play your mandola tuned CGDA, yes?
I found this site very useful when I first got my mandola: https://drpsychotic.com/mandola/index.html
It didn't take long to see that it was a fairly simple matter of transposing. For example, on the mandola, the key of C uses the same chords fingerings as the key of G on the mandolin.
Hope this helps.
Pat
Thank you SO MUCH!
This is super helpful.
The tenor banjo is tuned cgda like the mandola. The best book for learning mandola is the tenor banjo book written by Emile Grimshaw and then revised and updated by Ron Hinkle.
Ron lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona and is often in Tucson. See banjosnob.com. It is a good website for learning. He is no snob.
You could also order the book from Clifford-Essex in paper or ebook with audio for either.
cliffordessex.com/product/how-...nor-banjo
I started with the Mel Bay Tenor Banjo book. It shows the chords, then it does not use them in the examples. It is a good reference.
