After spending the last week just playing a bit and starting the finger toughening routine.......today I changed to the low G. Lowered the bridge by almost 1mm and took a "hair" off all the nut slots. Couple of beginner observations.....
1. The Aquila low G stretches like crazy. Could just be my first time changing a string etc..... but jeez......
2. The strings in general.....make mandolin string stretch look like nothing, these things stretch like crazy. I have a chromatic tuner.....but I may just get a headstock tuner to make tuning quicker.
3. There seem to be some online/video lessons for fingerstyle.....I'm still slowly looking through some old posts.....but what I need is a book/written instruction program I can follow. My old days with the violin (like 30 years ago) I started out with the Suzuki method books and then on to the Mazas studies books which I used with mandolin.
4. Are the left hand change of positions (1st to 3rd etc) based on the same rules as violin/mandolin?
1. The Aquila low G stretches like crazy. Could just be my first time changing a string etc..... but jeez......
2. The strings in general.....make mandolin string stretch look like nothing, these things stretch like crazy. I have a chromatic tuner.....but I may just get a headstock tuner to make tuning quicker.
3. There seem to be some online/video lessons for fingerstyle.....I'm still slowly looking through some old posts.....but what I need is a book/written instruction program I can follow. My old days with the violin (like 30 years ago) I started out with the Suzuki method books and then on to the Mazas studies books which I used with mandolin.
4. Are the left hand change of positions (1st to 3rd etc) based on the same rules as violin/mandolin?
Gives my brain an ache trying to figure out where to go, but it'll come!
