I have played guitar, now picking up the Mando, lessons or not ?

[Sleepy]

 

[landshark]

Lessons are good to explore. I have been taking lessons and it really is just so fun to have someone to guide  and play along with you.
And if your like me I am very applied. So I like to watch and mimic hand and thumb position 
Also keeping a nice steady boom chick through  another Mandolins solo can only be had by two mandolin together.
Have to take a break now from my tutor session ( half hour per week)and focus on work.

ALL ABOARD,,, WHOOOOO WHOOOOOOOO, boom chick boom chick boom!!

Take lessons. There fun!

[bouzouki]

After teaching myself how to play guitar, by learning chords and then songs, I took some lessons.  I later picked up the mandolin, and found it upside down from guitar.  I taught myself the mandolin.  Sometimes I could remember the guitar chord, but not the mandolin chord.  It took a while to learn and I wrote songs with strange chords so I would learn those chords.  I never learned the songs that fit the instrument, especially when I learned the octave mandolin...Bouzouki

[landshark]

  I never learned the songs that fit the instrument, especially when I learned the octave mandolin...Bouzouki

  Funny you should say that Dan.
I want to turn all songs into bluegrass tunes these days. "Cry Me A River".

[Mark of Bloomington]

I started playing mandolin a few years ago after playing guitar off and on for thirty years or so.  I take lessons from a guy who stops by the house a couple of times a month.  My wife and I are real homebodies and do not get out much.  If I did not have Jim coming by I would not push myself to learn anything new.  The best thing is to get together on a regular basis with a friend or two and jam.  But when you are a old frumpy 56 year old, too shy for his own good, private lessons at home work very well.  I like lessons with tune assignments to keep me moving forward.

Empty-nester with his own music room, unless the girls move back home.

How much longer until Telluride?

 Listening to: Circles around me

[Auntie Hope]

I'm with MoB, and mostly because I've been at a picking circle with a ill equipt mando player.....

Take The Lessons! You'll be gald you did when you get to FESTIVVVAAALLL!!!

Auntie Hope 

[landshark]

  Yeah I miss my lessons. They kept me moving forward and also made me carve out a time just for learning.

Finally getting things square at work to free me up some. Now the dreadful snow begins at my house, lots and lots of the white stuff.

I say Skype tutor or web based lessons for me. I don't think a home tutor is possible on top of this mountain...

Lessons for sure. Your lucky! You have a nice arrangement set up.

[landshark]

I'm with MoB, and mostly because I've been at a picking circle with a ill equipt mando player.....

Take The Lessons! You'll be gald you did when you get to FESTIVVVAAALLL!!!

Auntie Hope 

Or don't play till their all toast, after 8PM