Mandolin and Banjo

[Jemwielder]

I'm not sure how many of you guys play these instruments but I do and I've found some great sites to get info on how to play em better. The one for mandolin is mandolincafe.com and the one for banjo is banjohangout.org. There's also a cool site on jazz mandolin I believe it's called jazzmando.com, there's a link to it on mandolin cafe, it has some good jazz theory that can be applied to any instrument. Just figured I'd post this and see if there were any banjo and mando pickers here on jemsite!

[timi_h]

i just think "upside down guitar" with my mandolin ive had it since last christmas and find it a great little finger training exercise!! those tiny frets and double strings make pick up a guitar and just go "wow this is easy!!"

[Jemwielder]

yeah man, mando is a tough instrument. I'd love to get the other 2 instruments in the mando family (mandocello and mandola.) I've always been a sucker for wacky instruments that share commonalities with guitar (frets etc.) Personally i dunno how Bill Monroe and Sam Bush and Grisman play as fast as they do on that thing!

[blanco36]

Originally Posted by Jemwielder

I'm not sure how many of you guys play these instruments but I do and I've found some great sites to get info on how to play em better. The one for mandolin is mandolincafe.com and the one for banjo is banjohangout.org. There's also a cool site on jazz mandolin I believe it's called jazzmando.com, there's a link to it on mandolin cafe, it has some good jazz theory that can be applied to any instrument. Just figured I'd post this and see if there were any banjo and mando pickers here on jemsite!

Banjo Player here

[elcid]

I picked up a cheap Mando to fck around with. I named it Mando Calrissien.

[newbieguitarmaker]

I wanted to start some Banjo, my dad use to play Banjo and Mandolin however. I play some Ukulele but I just screw around on it really, don't know to much on it