Originally Posted by
taboot
Santiago - I don't think you're nuts. I practice both acoustic and electric seperately because they're related but different skill sets. When I play electric, the right hand generally gets a lighter touch, and the left hand is quite a bit more expressive - but then I *like* those aspects of electric mandolin, and generally describe myself as an electric mandolinist first.
That said, I don't think you need to worry about forming bad habits for one by practicing the other. Your instrument will tell pretty quickly what can and cannot be done well with it. Nobody that I know really uses tremolo on the electric, or right hand tapping on the acoustic because it just doesn't work too well. I suppose you might lose practice time on one to the other, but that's more choice than habit forming.
Ultimately, if you want to focus on more traditional mandolin sounds, stick to an eight stringed instrument. There's too much temptation to rock when you switch to four. Or, dare I say... Five!
Christian
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