Re: New player -- question about learning materials
Congrats on your new mandolin! 20 plus years ago I went off on a musical tangent and took piano lessons for a year or so. The best take away from that was learning to read notation. You mentioned you learned notation and I would encourage you to use that to compliment any lessons you choose. I have found that what I hear (or think I hear) might be different than a printed piece on sheet music. I agree with the importance of learning the sound associated with your instrument and how to identify it by ear. And of course learning some tunes! Reading notation (mandolin and fiddle only require learning the treble clef) opens the doors to thousands of tunes in many genres.
My current interest is Canadian fiddle tunes. I can sit with a fiddle book and work through a tune in an hour or so that might take much longer if I only listened to it many times. Kind of like being able to speak a language versus being able to read a language. Welcome and enjoy the ride!
Ratliff R5 2007, Capek A5 2003, Washburn M5S-SB Jethro Burns 1982, Mid-Mo M-2, Epiphone MM 30 Bk mandolins, Harmony Batwing 1970's, George Bauer bowlback early 1900's Philadelphia.
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