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New (kinda) player checking in. I'm a Suzuki kid who played violin (decently) through college, and have been playing guitar (poorly) since high school. Having hit a comfortable middle age, I recently picked up a beginner mandolin (a Loar) because I'm increasingly interested in the types of music they feature heavily in. It turns out that my past made me pick up playing guitar on a violin pretty easily, although I'm still taking the threads recommendations on lessons (online and virtual). Right now my biggest question is about sheet music. Thanks to violin, I can sight read for mandolin, which I could never do for guitar, and looking around at some sheet music online has left me unimpressed. There's a lot of stuff out there that looks like a lazy/automated system made up a part (in one example, scribing multiple mandolins for Going to California) and not at all music for the actual part. A lot of it just seems to be generic accompaniment, like its the right hand of the piano. Is this just because of online music farms putting out whatever PDFs they can sell? If I get some Mel Bay books will they have a higher chance of being good? I'd love to go to the music store and poke through them, but plague and all.
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Bilirubin posted:Mel Bay books are generally well regarded. Bilirubin posted:They Mel Bay books are generally well regarded. But funny enough, Mike Marshall has had me grabbing some violin music to play on the mandolin! Caught in a weird paradox currently: Already wish I had spent more and gotten something better than the Loar, but there's no way in hell I would have known that or realized that I'm liking this enough to sell off some other hobby stuff to get a better mandolin if I hadn't bought the Loar.
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