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Three note chords are common even on guitar, at least with jazz players. I rarely play more than four, if that many, at least for rhythm playing. There is no federal law that says all the strings...

Tab and notation are just tools. I use either or both, depending on what I want to do and what is available. Of course listening is important. I find it’s very easy to read for instruments tuned in...

"I guess I have a few questions:

1. When does it become advantageous to adopt a thumb at the back of the neck play style? Is it based on how frequently you need to be shifting positions? Does...

I recently made a post about getting a new Ochiai Mandola(tuned like an octave mandolin).

The scale length is 43.5 CM, or just a tad over 17 inches. The neck has a deep sharp V shape and is just...

Your left-hand thumb will partly (largely?) be prescribed by the neck shape, perhaps more so than by scale length. Also consider, e.g., players of Roman-type mandolins (Sebastiaan de Grebber may...

Drop the 4 finger chords and play like Jethro, three finger chords (mostly). On a CGDA instrument, the easy A7 is the 3 finger chord 767, which is G C# A, as Walter noted. G#7 is one fret closer to...

Niles Hokkanen recommends mandolin left hand fingering for mandola but wisely says that this all depends on the size of your hands and that smaller hands may need a different approach. Below is an...

I have several 17 inch scale mandolas, nut varies from inch and 3/8ths to inch and a quarter, the width of the fret board does affect the left hand approach. I would say I tend to use the classical 3...

As a mediocre playing by ear guitarist, I learned standard notation when I started playing mandolin.
I understand the music better in notation, but find that tab is very useful for finger...

Well, chords are chords, and are the same (or should be) in whatever book you look at. It's just a bit odd that some chords seem oddly missing from this one, as others have noted as well. The A7...

Ok thanks. So basically I might be using the wrong book. I have been watching old videos from Eddie Davis and he used that kind of complicated 7th chord but on a very short tenor banjo.

I don’t play classical music nor style so I’m somewhat limited. :(
I have an octave (20.5 inch) and have played it like a mandolin from day one.
I’d say that this is definitely the way to play...

For an A7 chord, try 1020 - that's C#GEA. This form shows up in the jbott chart as an A#7 chord, just up a fret (2131) - but oddly, not as an A7 chord.

There's an easy G7 chord form that surprisingly, I don't see on this chart.
4th string, 5th fret
3rd string, 4th fret
2nd string 5th fret
1st string, 5th fret

The chord notes, from low to...

I recently made a post about getting a new Ochiai Mandola(tuned like an octave mandolin).

The scale length is 43.5 CM, or just a tad over 17 inches. The neck has a deep sharp V shape and is just...

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To assuage the disappointment of the music shop non-sale, I found myself combing EBay and Reverb and sure enough there was another Ceccherini. It was advertised as 1881 but would be later...

"Hmm, you must not have met Bridezilla yet"
Indeed, I have not. The bride and groom are a very nice young couple.

Post # 24 lists the choices that I sent to the bride.
I met them after church...

Despite all the love expressed on the MC, I've always thought that Andy Statman deserves more recognition than he gets. No doubt his limited touring doesn't help, or his mastery of two very different...

No, but there are plenty of situations in which people attempt to learn music without spending more than minimal time listening. I've heard many people who thought they'd learned, say, Cape Breton or...

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I recently got my first bowlback and really enjoy its sound and knowing I’m playing a 100 year old luthier-made instrument. In addition I bought the excellent August Watters book which has...

Thanks, Bill.

"Il maestro Nicola Didone, inventore del nuoto mandolino a 5 corde..."

This ought to turn over an apple cart or two in an ongoing discussion elsewhere at the MC on the "true...

There are at least hundreds of great players you've never heard of who can't travel because of their jobs or family, who play in local bands and local clubs, steadily honing their skills and their...

OK, just checked the Didone thread and while it doesn't mention the Naples Labor Exhibition on the label itself, it was reported in an Italian newspaper of the time:


SCUOLA DI MANDOLiNO
Il...

Frank, I have this pdf, apparently from the first edition, not very good quality but it could help you...

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even with advanced technology its still tricky to do live, having a "formula" for making the loop helps. Most "live" loopers operate by foot switch so there's that too.

I have the RC 300 which is...