Hello all. This is my first post here at mandolin cafe. I have a few questions.
First a bit of background. I’ve been playing electric bass, primarily in various church worship bands, for 17 years. I started just by memorizing notes on the fretboard, and then transitioned to Nashville Number System and haven’t looked back. At this point I play and think in NNS. NNS and scale degrees just make sense to me.
After we incorporated a mandolin into our Christmas service I decided I wanted to play mando as well, and bought this Loar LM-520 https://themandolinstore.com/product...0-vs-mandolin/
I grew up hearing the mando, my grandpa was a music teacher, who could play anything with strings, but the mando was his instrument of choice. That man could play, and I know if he could do it, so can I.
What I’m looking for is a book, or online course, or video that uses the language of NNS and scale degrees to teach mandolin. I bought the Greg Horne beginning mandolin and DVD, and started working through that, as well as learning chords, and I’ve found the FFCP method on JazzMando, and have started learning scales. I like the scales, I HATE TAB.
To me, knowing NNS, and understanding scale degrees, TAB is just not enough information. I want to know WHY I’m fretting, where I’m fretting. If I have to use TAB I will, but I’d rather go deeper into scales with NNS.
So that long winded bunch of words was pretty much question 1 - any instruction available in NNS?
Question 2 is where is the beginners group? I saw it referenced in a couple posts, but haven’t found it.
Thanks a lot everyone.
RxR Ben
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