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You can also tune the mandolin to 'guitar' tuning (bottom 4 strings or top 4 strings) and go to town.


That’s the worst advice you can ever give to anyone tackling a new instrument. You’re essentially saying “don’t bother actually learning to play your new instrument. Cheat, so you can fool non-musicians into thinking you can you can play your new instrument”.

How hard is it to learn new chord shapes?! Not hard at all.

Following that advice also means you can’t avail yourself of the tons of TAB and sheet music written for mandolin. It would also mean you can’t actually play your new instrument.

It blows my mind every time I hear such horrible advice. Why go through the expense and time of getting a new instrument if you’re not actually going to even try to learn to play it?

Bob
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