Learning tenor guitar and mando simultaneously?

[elbent]

I’m interested in learning the tenor guitar alongside learning mando. How feasible is this? I’ve heard it’s more doable since they’re both tuned in fifths - can anyone speak to this? I’m pretty new to music in general.

[Monte Barnett]

It's absolutely feasible. Fifths tuning for mandolin, mandola, octave mando, & tenor guitar (in GDAE or CGDA) makes switching between them fairly easy. I've also noticed that mentally transposing notes & fingerings between the two tunings becomes enjoyably easier. A 23" scale tenor with the guitar tuned GDAE, makes CGDA just a capo away at the 5th fret.

[EvanElk]

I'd say it's both feasible and really fun to work out fingering and arrangements on a tenor for the fiddle tunes we play on mando. I dig certain fiddle tunes even more on a tenor than on mandolin - St. Anne's reel and Dorrigo sound great on a tenor