Re: How has the mandolin changed your guitar playing?
I have played guitar since I was 15. I started mandolin at age 45 and I started violin at 50. Now at 66, mandolin, mandola, and fiddle are my go-to instruments. I do have a couple of guitars, including the first guitar I ever owned, and one quite recent acquisition, but they don't get played anywhere near as much as my mandolin.
One good thing about learning mandolin is I can read music and now I know the notes on guitar. They are not the same, of course, but the skill to translate printed notation to the fingerboard came from learning mandolin, where it is quite easy to learn, and with practice I got it down on guitar.
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
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