Re: New to mando.
Welcome! I'll also drop the obligatory note to check out Mike Marshall's video on how to hold the mandolin. It's not just a smaller instrument than a guitar, but your fingers are in a different position, more like a fiddle/violin than guitar. It's easy to forget that there is an ergonomically correct way to hold most instruments, and learning the right way now will help enormously once you get up and running, not to mention helping short-circuit things like carpal tunnel or arthritis or tennis elbow or whatever. And I don't know your situation, but if you could get a beginning lesson or two from a mandolin player (as opposed to a guitar player who also noodles on the mandolin), you can get off on the right foot whether you teach yourself or take long-term lessons at some point.
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