Re: Which one am I playing?
The mandolin and mandola chords match up on three of the four strings. It's just that it's the high three on one and the low three on the other. Maybe it would help to try to remember the patterns in their full 5-string glory in order to ready yourself for playing the glorious 5-string mandolin/mandola. I'm not joking, but I've also never done it.
This sentiment seems to be oozing about in the thread from which this -very- insightful post is taken:
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...l=1#post858715
The honorable Jim McDaniel observes that the mandolin capoed at the fifth fret is a CGDA mandola an octave up. So, wow!, you already knew all that stuff. You just have to make that 5-fret shift.
Others have said that learning the mandola helps them play/use their mandolin more fully. I can see how. It shows me where I need to go.
You live and you learn (if you're awake)
... but some folks get by just making stuff up.
Michael T.
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