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Excerpted from Easy 2-Chord Songs for Mandolin by Wayne Erbsen, published by Native Ground Books & Music. Unless a free mandolin just falls in your lap, you’ll need to purchase one. When you go shopping for a mandolin, I strongly suggest that you don’t buy a cheap one off of the Internet. Most of these cheapo instruments will… Read More »
Heck no! It’s easy as eating pie if you approach learning the mandolin in the right way. Of course, there is no shortage of free information, tab, and musical notation of mandolin music on the web. The challenge is finding information that’s geared to your style of learning. At Native Ground Books & Music we… Read More »
As you might guess, there are numerous differences between old-time and bluegrass music, although they share a lot of similarities too. In old-time music, the banjo, fiddle and mandolin generally play the melody all at the same time. During an old-time tune, the guitar generally refrains from playing the melody and concentrates on providing the… Read More »
The Internet is abuzz with people wanting to learn to play the mandolin. My guess is that you are one of them! Of course, you want to learn the easiest songs possible. Who wouldn’t? The songs that are the easiest to play are the tunes you already know. They’re the ones you’ve had in your… Read More »
Mandolins come in many flavors, several styles, and many price ranges. I’ll pass on to you the same advice someone gave me about fifty years ago. Spend as much as you can stretch, and purchase a quality instrument, rather than a piece of junk. A really cheap mandolin will sound tinny, which will discouraged you… Read More »
Practically everybody who plays the mandolin wants to play by ear. What does that mean? It means playing without reading music or tab. To play by ear, you need to know a little bit about three things: 1) Simple scales, 2) Chords, 3) Walk-ups and Walk-downs. 1) Simple scales. This is the doe ra mi… Read More »
In my article entitled “Mandolin Chords” I showed you a number of basic mandolin chords. Armed with that knowledge, there are thousands of songs you can play simply by strumming the chord and singing, humming or whistling the song. Before you can do that you will need to figure out which chords to play when.… Read More »
Mandolins are fun to play, but they’re a pain in the you-know-what to tune. Why? Because the double strings are like quarreling siblings who never seem to agree with each other. Nonetheless, in this easy article, I will show you how to get your mandolin more or less in tune. As you already know, your… Read More »
By now you’ve learned to play a few tunes on the mandolin. You know some of your basic chords and you’d love to be able to play with other musicians in a jam, but you’re “chicken.” That’s because up to now, you’ve just been playing by yourself in the closet, so to speak. Well, it… Read More »
Compared to the guitar, mandolin chords are EASY. In fact, most mandolin chords only use two fingers or sometimes only one. In the mandolin chord charts below, each horrizontal line represents a pair of mandolin strings. The E string is the one closest to the floor, as you hold your mandolin in playing position, and… Read More »
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