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My songwriting partner is a guitarist. In our latest project he has notated a few chords I am having trouble making sense of. Can anyone suggest chord names or mando fingerings for what he calls:
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I have a song I'm working on with two guitar chords: G minus 9 (which I think is G, D, Bb and D) and A/G (A with a G in the bass? or G, E, A and C#?). Anyway, the verse goes back and forth between...

I played my first gig in a bar
Place smelled like piss and cheap cigars
Earned less than five whole bucks in tips
And spent in all on fish and chips
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)

I didn’t like...

Yes it is a cool chord. My song writing partner is a guitar guy and sometimes the tunes he gives me to work up lyrics for have chords that I don't quite know how to play yet on the Mandolin. This one...

The context is now (the song has changed a bit from my original post) a three chord phrase that ends each verse in a Steely Dan-esque jazz tune:

BM7 F#M7 CM7add6

The melody line is: B F# ...

Thanks. That works.

Can anyone recommend a fingering for this chord: CM7add6 ?

I like 7445 for the DM7 and 6411 for the F#M7 so something close by would be cool.

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Thanks. Elapsed time from confusion to enlightenment 1/2 hour. What a forum!

Could someone please name the notes in this chord and also suggest some fingering options. It falls between a GM7 and DM7 in a song I am trying to learn.

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I like 2-3-3-x for the F. It has everything. The root is on the D string, the 3rd is on the G, and the 5th is on the A. It's a handy shape for a IV chord because the three finger I chord (5-2-3-x for...

There is a post in the "Post a picture of your Mandolin" forum about a custom-made mandolinetto (a smallish mandolin, in this case shaped somewhat like a ukulele). Here is the link:
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I want one. Does anyone know how to contact the builder? There are some YouTube videos and a MySpace page of "The Gallus Brothers" but I can't find anything on-line that lists a business address or...

Thanks for the advice. I took the strap button off and the jack now stays in just fine. So there's my answer.

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I hope this is not a dumb question, but I recently had a pick-up and 1/4 inch jack installed on this old Stradolin, and the male end on the instrument cable works its way out with even the...

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I play my mando every week with on the beach with the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz (UCSC) and have been tempted to pursue this same path (modify a Uke for GDAE so I can play leads with the scales I...

It's interesting that the conversation has turned to hippie strumming and chording because that's exactly the situation I am in. My playing experience is a combination of self-study, lessons and...

Thanks to everyone who responded. I think I have some better ideas on how to proceed.

I use the MandoChords program on the Ipod touch and like it mucho. My only complaint is the screen text that indicates the note values (root, third etc.) in each chord are too small. But I have...