Posted by Banky_Edwards at 8:02 PM on April 3 Once you're happily plucking out your tune, you can start thinking about learning chords and scales. Take the first six notes of the guitar tab: -0-2-5-7-5-7 (all on the B string). If you check out the guitar neck at a site like this, you can convert the frets to notes.
B-C#-E-F#-E-F# Then take a peek at the notes on a mandolin. Start on the A string (closest to the B string your guitar piece starts on). That same progression of notes would look like this on mando tab: -2-4-7-9-7-9 You'll just be writing down the fret number of the notes that you converted from the guitar tab.
Of course (and here's why an auto-translation wouldn't work), when you hit the E note you don't need to keep going up the neck, you'd move up to the E string. So your mando tab would look like this: -0-2-0-2Įxactly what ijoshua came up with. Posted by Banky_Edwards at 8:15 PM on April 3īanky_Edwards summarized my translation technique pretty well. Here’s a shortcut: All the notes on the high E string on the guitar can be played on the same fret on the E string on the mandolin. Moving down one string, you have a B string on the guitar and an A string on the mandolin, so all the guitar notes on this string would need to be transposed by adding 2 frets on the mandolin to achieve the same note value.ĭown another string, you have a G string on the guitar and a D string on the mandolin. To play the same note on the same string, add 5 frets on the mandolin. Finally, notes on the D string of the guitar can be played on the same frets on the D string of the mandolin, or on the G string of the mandolin by adding 7 frets.Īs Banky_Edwards mentioned, this direct translation will probably result in some awkward movements up and down the neck. You can fix this by finding the same note on different strings by adding 7 frets and moving up one string, or by subtracting 7 frets and moving down one string.
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