The two chords share 4 notes. Playing those 4 notes alone, any finger configuration, yields a ton of chords. From D F A B you can cover at least...
G9 : G A B D F
G13 : G A B D E F...
The two chords share 4 notes. Playing those 4 notes alone, any finger configuration, yields a ton of chords. From D F A B you can cover at least...
G9 : G A B D F
G13 : G A B D E F...
That's what Jimmy Moon (Scotland) called it when I bought one of his, so I use the term "cittern" freely to describe a long-scale with 5 courses tuned CGDAE. I still find myself spelling it out,...
The kid from the drum department at Guitar Center. He said, "It's just the lower four strings of the guitar, only upside down." A little oversimplified, sure, but that's all I needed to hear. I...
I get out of the car at the local home-improvement-depot-type store, and I hear music wafting across the parking lot... Mandolin, guitar, fiddle, banjo, and pretty good, too. There's a tent right...
Not everyone gets hung up on enharmonic names in conversation, but it just makes better communication to get the names right in the context. But to explore possibilities -
Go to jazzcittern.com,...
Pages 41-45 of the jazzCittern ModeExplorer Field Guide has a decent primer on how to build mandolin chords of all kinds, I think.
I have an excuse for not responding to your original post. My posts are thread terminators lately. When I post on a thread, I'll be doggoned if that doesn't turn out to be the final post. Check it...
Hey all.
Steve, you mentioned,
You are right in my case. I think of it as a big mandolin... Or a pretty uncooperative NST guitar that's missing the high G. :) I tune my Moon in fifths, CGDAE,...
Oh, NST - Fun! Some links from other conversations on the topic here at the Mandolin Cafe, from oldest to most recent...
The Teleberger...
And here are the guages I am using at the moment...
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29 registered non-bluegrassers so far. That's about 0.223% of the total population of 13,000. Enough for a couple support groups, anyway.
Perhaps 5 courses on that neck? Would it handle the tension?
On the other hand! There are a number of color-coded presentations and shape-coded presentations out there, and I would look at some of these first before exerting the effort. #You may find the look...
Alright, you guys aren't going to believe this. #I hope I got this right...
It looks to me like in the Arabic varieties there are tetrachords and trichords mixed in various ways, in the one's...