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Ornaments such as triplets are made with similar techniques, and the same speed can be accomplished (with a lot of practice) using separate techniques. *snip* Good tone on a mandolin requires a thicker pick that can impart enough energy to the double course.
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I have to disagree in principle with most of what has been said. Most of this is in my articles on take a look. Barney McKenna (the patron saint of Irish banjo) uses mandolin fingering, but if you are beginning, it is easier and more efficient to go to the guitar style mentioned above. Good tone on a mandolin requires a thicker pick that can impart enough energy to the double course. Hitting the high B note is accomplished by shifiting to a second position and using the little finger. In other words, one finger per fret: first finger on the second fret, second finger on the third fret, etc. The scale issue is resolved by using a finger assignment technique. There are other subtle issues but since you are a beginner on both instruments, they are to be discovered later on. Scale length is the other obvious difference. For one thing, the Mando is double coursed so the energy requirements for good tone are different. The TB and mandolin are not the same instrument and they require a different approach to each.
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Now restoring instruments full-time in Vermont! Try it out! You can snatch brilliant tenors in need of a head or tuners on eBay for a lark! You can apply techniques from either to it, which is great! Depending on setup you can get pretty good slides into your 'mandolin' tunes that you never could get on a mandolin, and you still retain the ability to play those tunes quick-as-all-hell. You only really have to stretch for those chords that are ridiculous on a mandolin in the first place.Īs for the play factor? It's something like playing both a 5-string and a mandolin in the same boat. I follow suit with that because I like to transfer my songs and tunes from mandolin to banjo and back and forth, and I dabble in jigs, reels, and strathspeys myself! So, with that in mind, fingering has been practically the same for me. If you're going to transition from mandolin to tenor it's easiest to tune the banjo to GDAE like the Celtophiles do. I play all of the above - mandolin, tenor banjo, and old-timer - so I can tell you exactly what I've found!