We invited a neighborhood family for Xmas dinner to pay them back for Thanks giving dinner and their daughter who just got a mandolin and her daughter who is 18. The youngest who plays violin and piano had just been given a few years old Washburn 12 string by her dad, the strings looked rusted and old. I asked her if I could try it out and I played on it a little bit and WOW! I kept looking over my shoulder for the other guys with guitars. I can imagine how good it would sound with new strings and a setup.
There we sat two guitar newbie's, a mandolin newbie, talk about a roomfull wannabe's. Question, I know the chording is different on a mandolin but a C or G sounds just like my guitar C or G as best as I can make out Sooo will a song with chords be the same for a mandolin as a guitar as we wanted to practice a few songs together so we would have something to play at the next dinner we have, thanks.
I'm sorry I can't answer any of your questions Hiram, but it sounds like it was a fun time, with more of the same in the offing. Enjoy!
Margaret
When my mind is free, you know a melody can move me
And when I'm feelin' blue, the guitar's comin' through to soothe me ~
I know the mandolin's tuned differently to a guitar, but I should imagine if you're all playing the same chords it'd give a nice depth of texture....kind of like one guitar playing this.....
E A D G B E
3 2 0 0 0 3
and another playing this....
E---A---D--G--B--E
10 10 12 12 12 10
same chords, just played in different positions. A G major chord consists of the notes G, B and D....some one playing a G chord on a mandolin will be playing some combination of those notes...
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
That sounds like an awesome time! Nothing better then good company and good music (unless, of course, you add 'good food' to that list :wink:) As for the mandolin, it's not quite the same as a guitar. Where a guitar is tuned in fourths (the interval between neighboring strings...except that pesky b-string), a mandolin is tuned in fifths, like a violin. So, in fact, the violin player could probably show you a thing or two; maybe not chords, but at least some melodies. A lot of the chords for mandolin though are pretty easy though; many taking only a couple of fingers. Here's a decent chart with quite a few of them:
http://home.inreach.com/jsherida/katie/mandolin1.html
-Jason
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