Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?
Once you learn the three finger chord shapes and where the scales fit in those and get a bit of a handle on double stops, playing in any key is no problem on the mandolin, including Eb. It's actually easier because you don't have to translate.
Agree. One of my jamming buddies randomly places a capo for many of his tunes. And to complicate matters, he uses funky guitar chord shapes, hard for me to follow. But he can always tell us what key he’s in. Once the root is established it’s just a matter of locating where to land on the neck.
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