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Wildflower
Feb-12-2010, 7:50am
I am a newbie in the process of learning GDAE tuning with my little Martin Tenor guitar. For those who do GDAE tuning, do you use a lot of double stops (like the mandolin players) in your playing? If so, are there some favorite instructional sources for this?

JeffD
Feb-12-2010, 9:37am
Lots of excellent stuff in this thread:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50382&highlight=pickloser

Another thing to do is picture those big bluegrass four finger chords, (which are to big for the tenor by and large) and pick any two fingers.

Lastly, I found this really helpful for me: