Re: 5-string mandolin for beginner?
Originally Posted by
Bill McCall
Speaking as someone who’s made this trip, get a good 4 course instrument to start. Lots of good ones for a lot less than a Jazzbo. You’ll learn the chord shapes on the 4 courses, you already know the fingerings. When you go to 5 strings, the chord shapes transfer with different names.
You won’t be satisfied with a Kentucky, the tone is not similar. No solid body electric will give the jazzy, hollow bodied sound.
And you need to master the pick anyway
Agree! If you want to learn mandolin and want to play it like a mandolin rather than, example a guitar, you need a four course instrument to learn playing techniques associated with the mandolin such as tremolo and more.
Big Muddy EM8 solid body (Mike Dulak's final EM8 build)
Kentucky KM-950
Weber Gallatin A Mandola "D hole"
Rogue 100A (current campfire tool & emergency canoe paddle)
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