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Originally Posted by Gs33
This is a good point, I came over from mando, bluegrass so I didn't start with chords or shapes, it's probably not in my brain the same as those who learned guitar chords before anything, thanks.
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I went the opposite direction - first violin/bluegrass fiddle, then guitar, then mandolin. I find with my mandolin playing (nearly 16 years) that what The Bard stated is true there too:
"many, sometimes most, of the notes I wanted to play in the melody were already in the chord I was fingering."
Most of bluegrass mandolin
is chords anyway - chopping chords on the off beat. And the melody notes
are nearly all there in the chords you're chopping.