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I know, right? That’s why I’m not fiddling with it every day. Got to keep my focus on the guitar. The mando is fun though, such a cool sound. I bought is specifically to play the mandolin parts in “Losing My Religion” and I looked at some videos and thought: that doesn’t look terribly hard.
Then as I was going through it and trying to rehearse the parts, darn…if there isn’t a very difficult reach on one of the chords. It’s such a tiny instrument (frets are less than 3/4 inches) and I’m a grown man with fairly large hands but it was giving me some trouble so I’ve set it aside.
I just pulled it out again and tried it, have to reach from the bottom E string on the first fret to the top G string on the 5th fret with my ring finger. I actually can do it now, it’s not comfortable but all this stretch work with TAC is paying dividends. Yay!