Thanks for your comments. I am a classically trained musician, so music notation is how I roll, how I come up to speed quickly (I can hear music notation as I read it).
In any case, several answers have already been provided to satisfy my question sufficiently for the time being.
As a church musician I also do know hot to play by ear, I just needed a basis for what is more idiomatic style on the mandolin than on the violin, since the violin is not usually conceived in such a chordal fashion, although it can be.
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