Peghead Nation's Octave Mandolin course with Joe K. Walsh

[@bradg4562]

Did I hear that right? Verona on the octave. Beautiful! Frizzell would love it!

[@Mole-Skin]

I found that when playing the octave Mando in a group session it got totally overpowered by the guitars.. as opposed to a mandolin which sat on top.
My Mandola became a 'sofa' instrument and after some nerve damage in my left hand made it difficult to form some guitar chords I moved more and more to this instrument and after changing to octave strings it gave me a lot of notes and much easier to make chords (2 fingers for basics..).
My instrument has matured beautifully over the years and now sounds fantastic.. I dont write songs but I found this instrument very easy to come up with new tunes/melody's and would reccomend to any Guitar player having a 'dry' spell.. As Joe says, it has a blank history with a wide open future.. Worth a go..

[@fiddleexpress-beckfamilyband]

Great video, love your channel

[@m1n4olynn]

Keep at this Joe... good discussion... something on varied tunings and other OM items such as the 10 string cittern.

[@peterwu8471]

Lovely

[@ruthpallek5202]

please explain scale length....

[@mattparksmusic]

Ruth, scale length is the distance from the bridge to the nut, or the part of the string that vibrates when you play an open string.

[@nytemoth]

Aaaarrrgggghhhhhh this is my first instrument 😂

[@FailingStreetBridge]

It’s not too bad! I’m working on this program now, look up easy two finger chords for mandolin.

[@nytemoth]

@@FailingStreetBridge thank you I will :)

[@MrPHart]

Practice, practice, practice someone once said and you will never need another instrument. Somethings are all encompassing, practice is one of them!

[@oscarbone1000]

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