Topic: mandolin tuning

Hello everyone. Just got a mandolin to play with. Now... how is it tuned? Can I use a guitar tuner? Any help would be appreciated, Thyanks


dADa

Go WINGS..and Tigers,Lions and Reading F.C...C'mon Royals

Re: mandolin tuning

If you want to play Irish traditional stuff you would be better tuning it to GDAE


Enjoy


D

Re: mandolin tuning

hi dada,

yes you can use a guitar tuner.

also, there are different ways top tune the mandolin but the GDAE is i tihnk the most popular way to tune, and as said it makes an easy way of playing irish/scottish folk tunes and probably more. I learned guns and roses " civil war " with this tuning.



here is a link to a mandloin page that might help


<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.mandolincafe.com/tabarc.html" target="_blank">http://www.mandolincafe.com/tabarc.html</a>


and for a list of mandolin chords


<a href="http://www.gootar.com/folder/sampleman.html" target="_blank">http://www.gootar.com/folder/sampleman.html</a>

hope that helps


KEn

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

Re: mandolin tuning

This will help:

   <a href="http://www.mandozine.com/resources/mandotuner.php" target="_blank">http://www.mandozine.com/resources/mandotuner.php</a>


         -Soupy1957

Re: mandolin tuning

you can use a guitar tuner...IF AND ONLY IF it just shows the name of the notes. OK, the names of the strings:: with the mandolin facing you, the top (thickest diameter) is G; next, D; next, A (hardest to tune, don't ask why); bottom (narrowest diameter), E


does that help??


(oh, yeah: to make songs sound best make sure tuner is set to 440)