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tbradfish Approved 
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I play guitar primarily and use the "Irish" tuning DADGAD alot. Anyone try using DGAD for mandolin? that woud give me the same fingerings as the the guitar - at least on the 1st 4 strings
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Charlie Approved 
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Idon't believe it would work to good, you would have to figure out what size strings you could get by with, I tried going dgbe once as the bottom 4 strings of guitar and it never did work out. Y ou might try going to http://www.mandloincafe.com and ask that same question and see what kind of answer you get. You should just try learning the mandolin as it is tuned in 5ths and easy to pick medolies to songs and plenty of tab avaiable. Charlie 
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tbradfish Approved
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Thanks
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Rex Approved
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Mandolins are tuned like fiddles. Fiddles already work great for Irish music. It is the guitar that is sometimes tuned different for Irish music. Dan Gelo has a great book of Irish tunes for mandolin published by Mel Bay. It has tab and standard notation.
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tbradfish Approved
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I am all over that - THANKS!
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Neal Approved 
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Try GDGD- low to high. It's a fun tuning. Last edited on Tue Feb 7th, 2006 01:16 am by Neal ____________________ http://ezfolk.com/audio/NealPaisley http://www.youtube.com/nealpaisley http://www.myspace.com/nealpaisley |
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Roger8510 Approved 
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Sorry for the way late posting on your original question. I just joined and getting caught up on some reading. A lot of Irish bouzuki players use the upside down version of DADGAD. They tune GDAD. If you analyze it, it is just fiddle tuning except the E string is tuned down two steps from E to D. But if you look closely, it is the low four strings of DADGAD guitar upside down. I am dizzy.  That reminds me of a guy from Dallas, great mandolin player who told me that he first learned guitar. When he started mandolin he just envisioned an upside down guitar. I immediately saw mando chords differently after he told me that. James
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