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BTDT, only one suggestion, don't go back to the bride with choices!

The mando is tuned like the circle of fifths, study that and then start looking at your fingerboard.

Hmmm, HEY JOE is an anomaly, I sure wouldn't base any blank statement around that song.

Start Looking at songs with multiple chords and look for snippets of this progression around the circle in fourths.
B E A D G C F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb

The only thing correct in that video is the key! Here's my PDF of how Bill plays it.

Learn to play bass first, it's a lot easier to hear and is the foundation of what's being done with the chords and melody.

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You're welcome Bob, good luck.

here's the chords to the bridge, they all have a d note in them except A7 when he sings the word "much" (C#), that's the easiest

Am/D Gm/D D D
DM7 A7 Bm7add11 Bm7add11
Em9 Em9 D/F# D/F#...

Pick a key and focus on a number as home base in order to get different modes for a melody. If you need chords to fit what you come up with I have a chart for that, I got a million of 'em!

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Tune the open strings and then check fretted notes up and down the neck. If the fretted notes are out move your bridge to bring them more in line. High action, neck bow, finger pressure and fret...

116 year old answer

http://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2011-10/stahwi0001mani64/stahwi0001mani64v00001/stahwi0001mani64v00001.pdf

This chart is similar to a slide rule:
Visualize the pitch names as the open strings and anything above it as invisible as in the D pitch example. For clarification, find a chord dictionary and look...

Here's a chart that shows about everything you would need.

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This is a great song to learn how to "noodle" which is what the mando is doing during this song. This style of playing comes in handy when a steady rhythm pattern would overpower the arrangement....

A sense of rhythm is needed for all musicians, I always recommend this app because it gives you feedback plus the ability to read rhythmic notation.
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I got a lot of musical friends and I think it would be awesome to be able to jam with them and musical friends in the future! So I think building that level of fluency is what I'm going for.
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I for one totally agree with JonZ's above statements, the ? is whether you want to eventually. join a band, jam, play only at home for pleasure, etc.

Wow starting with jazz would befuddle the vast majority of musicians. The first two chords here are typical jazz chords, Bbm9 and Eb9/Bb. I would suggest starting with the study of guide tones as...

When I began playing 60 years ago I found finger patterns that seemed to magically blend in to the songs I was playing. I had no idea why they worked, I just used them. Eventually when I later began...

This is how I see that in intervals with what I call the phone number 736-2514 or 415-2637.

Here's a chart I made for my students that has the whole ball of wax on one page.

If you want to change guitar chords to mandolin chords leave the first string as this, make the note on the second string two frets higher and flip the third and fourth strings around.

for those of us who are not aliens

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Here's a pdf of the 2nd exercise.