You really just need to do a bunch of jamming in E. There’s plenty of room to have fun. Concentrate on closed position licks. There are some basic patterns that you just move up and down the neck when you change keys.
Plus one on Jim Richters website. He adapts a ton of songs to mandolin and his videos are very approachable. So is Jim for that matter. He’s an old friend of mine and he started as a Blues guitarist. I used to play in a blues band with him and he’s an excellent guitarist. When he first picked up the mandolin it was to play Blues and he’s from southern Indiana where Yank Rachel is from and there’s that influence in his playing.
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