All of the above.

Also try the Shrewsbury Folk Festival website it has a down loadable tune book which will be used at the easy tunes workshop at the Festival. Another excellent reason for going to the Festival.

I started Mandola as a non-reader about 6 years ago. After playing a few tunes from memory I followed the dots on easy tunes. I found jigs easiest because the go 123, 123, 123, or diddly, diddly, diddly! It is much easier than trying to play song tunes - they don't really have enough tune!

Cheers

Les