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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Bad news: mandolins are tuned in fifths like violins.
Incidentally, I wouldn't be surprised if "fiddling" and "playing violin" are as different in tuning as they are in most every other way.
Oh god, totally. I've been a full-time bassist in a band for the last nine months or so, and going over to a fifths-tuned instrument would be agonizing. It's bad enough when my songwriter decides to transpose songs on the fly and yells her capo position to me as the drummer is counting us in....
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I was not aware of that. I've never played a mandolin before. I do know that they're four courses of two strings each, but beyond that I can't say I know anything about that.
Also, your guitarist/songwriter is evil. The least she could do is give you a proper key to work with. Doing it in your head with nothing but a capo position is kind of a pain in the ass.
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