Upside down and missing two strings. We've heard that before in comparing the mandolin to guitar and have to admit it never quite resonated here either, but Indiana Student columnist Matt Payton was given this tidbit in his introduction to our little eight-string wonder. So far, he's enjoying three chords in his self-taught pedagogical pursuits.

We'll give him a few weeks of rudimentary folk/rock bliss and let him groove on C, G, and D. Hopefully, when he gets comfortable with those, we can turn him on to some cool ii V7 I's shortly on this site. Won't be too much longer and we'll be hearing how he deals with Mandolin Acquisition Syndrome, or MAS. So far, the only MAS he's uncovered is his peers questioning his MASculinity.

Not too worry, Matt. Some FFcP exercises will help you put the "man" in mandolin.

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Check out the page of stock ii V7 I chords.

Of course, if we're talking manly, there's always Bubba...

Posted by Ted at January 30, 2007 6:04 AM