

How Do You Tune a Mandolin?įind the tuners that correspond to each string. You’ll also find that it’s possible to maintain the relationship between the strings but to tune them all lower by an equal amount, such as E-E-B-B-F#-F#-C#-C#, to make it easier to play in certain keys. Some of the more common alternate tunings are G-D-A-D, A-D-A-E, G-D-G-D, and G-D-G-B, so give those a try if you can’t tell what a mandolin is tuned to in a particular song. Like most instruments, mandolins can be tuned in a variety of ways. This also means that many mandolin chords are the same as guitar chords, only in reverse. The second lowest strings on a mandolin then correspond to the second highest on a guitar, and so on. Tuning a mandolin can be confusing for guitar players at first, but you can think of the mandolin as the opposite of a guitar – the lowest strings on a mandolin have the same pitch as the highest strings on a guitar.

On a mandolin, you tune each “course,” or pair, of strings to the same pitch, so the mandolin’s tuning is really G-G-D-D-A-A-E-E. The only difference is that the mandolin has eight strings, but the violin has only four. The standard mandolin tuning is the same as violin tuning: G-D-A-E, from low to high.
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6.1 How to Tune a Mandolin with a Guitar Tuner.6 Can You Tune a Mandolin with a Guitar Tuner?.
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