mandola chords

Subject: mandola chords
From: Sooz
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 11:59 AM

I bought my other half a mandola for Christmas which is proving much easier to play than the mandolin which has frets much too close together and the mandocello which has frets much too far apart! We have tuned it viola style (CGDA) and getting on quite well by trial and error but would like some tried and tested chord shapes to speed us up. Can anyone help?

Subject: RE: mandola chords
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 12:05 PM

Sooz, there might be some helpful info in this thread, click

Subject: RE: mandola chords
From: Sooz
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 12:29 PM

Thanks - I had looked but most of the suggestions are for fancy tunings and it takes me all my time to keep track of the notes in the conventional one!

Subject: RE: mandola chords
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 12:41 PM

Aha! Go here, and fill out the form for your tuning and then each chord you request will be given. Might be a way to View all, and print, I didn't check that.

Subject: RE: mandola chords
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 12:43 PM

WOW! I think this page of the same site is even better!

Subject: RE: mandola chords
From: Sooz
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 02:49 PM

Perfectamundo! Thanks Sorcha that is exactly what I was looking for.

Subject: RE: mandola chords
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 02:58 PM

I'm going to bookmark it, because the GDAE tuning will work for fiddle chords. Neat place.