Mandolin-Mandola-Octave Mandolin tunings
It seemed like your question was also about wrapping your head around mandolin-style chords. For something bigger like Mandola, etc., open chords will sound good. Think of the instrument like a mentally flipped guitar (just the low 4 strings of the guitar). Play all your guitar chords upside down and you’re in business.
Edited to add: that’s just the shapes. That upside down G chord will sound as a C chord on your C-G-D-A Mandola.
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Last edited by bkepler; 12-30-2020 at 07:25 AM.
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