Hi folks. Started mandolin on 11/16/22 and I'm hooked! I'm a former 5-string banjo player, so lots of experience jamming and bluegrass music in me, so that is helping a lot learning mando. Working on all fundamental stuff, scales - major/major pentatonic- and Am,Dm,Em to start, open/closed chords (and switching), pick directions, started G,C,D,A arpeggios, playing religiously with backing tracks and metronome and following David Benedict's Beginner series and joined his $5/month patreon. I'm going for clean tone and only speeding up when I can play cleanly without thinking about it. Giving myself unstructured time to noodle around with scales over various backing track singing tunes and that's fun hearing some good notes in their once in a while. Plan to do Sharon Gilchrist's beginning and mandolin fretboard on Peghead next. As soon as I can chop efficiently and get a few tunes under my belt, I'm gonna try my local jams and maybe some festivals this Summer. I bought an Eastman 515Cc and I love it. Definitely going to be able to grow into this one. Happy holidays everyone, looking forward to keeping up with other newbies here ~ Jason https://www.patreon.com/davidbenedic...w%20to%20Play% https://strummachine.com https://mandolinsandbeer.com/
Welcom, Jason! It looks like you are off to a good start.
Welcome to the Newbies group, Jason! I suspect you are already way ahead of me!
Welcome Jason! Wow, you are going to make all us newbies look bad! Sounds like you’ve taken a few years off the learning curve already! Way to go. Can’t wait to hear your progress.
Thanks folks!
Welcome Jason. This is the place to be!
My brain hurts, just reading about Jason's major and minor pentatonic scales . . . I've been playing mandolin for 25 years and I still have trouble remembering how to play a B chord. Welcome aboard.
