As far as clean playing goes, I got a LOT out of Mike Marshall's Fundamentals DVD. It's not as 'fun' as playing new songs or fiddle tunes, but some of your practice hours spent on this material should pay dividends in your technique. I do think the mandolin requires more technique to get good tone than guitar. To state it more precisely, I think poor technique on mandolin sounds worse than poor technique on guitar.
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