2 Finger Mandolin Chord Poster and Chart, Includes Fret Board

We are busy pulling together a collection of Two Finger Mandolin Chord videos to add to AcousticMusicTV.com You can see one in a previous post, more coming. Would love any comments you might have. We also are releasing a new 2 Finger Mandolin chord chart to go along with it. The chart includes the Major, Minor and 7th Mandolin Chords for chords A-G also includes a Mandolin Fret Board. This chart is also available at Zazzle.com as a poster. Please feel free to download this graphic for your personal use. You can check out the new videos over on AcousticMusicTV.com

Two Finger Mandolin Chords Chart, Includes Mandolin Fret Board

To see or buy this Mandolin chord chart at Zazzle.com, click here.

To see the How to play the Two Finger "A" Chord Mandolin Video, click here

Learn How to Play the Two Finger "A" Chord on the Mandolin

We are back to working on AcousticMusicTV.com and are coming out with a line of 2 Finger Mandolin Chord video. These are our favorite mandolin chords to play, easy to learn and easy to move around the fret board with. Along with the videos is a new 2 finger chord chart that you can download.

Learn how to play a two finger A chord on the Mandolin. Learn to use the 1 string, the E string and place your ring finger on the 5th fret, or the A note. Place your middle finger on the 4th fret on the 2nd string or the A string, this note is C#. Play those two strings and you will have a two finger A chord on the Mandolin Two finger mandolin chords are easy to play and allow you to move around the fret board a lot easier Download a free Two Finger Chord Chart for the Mandolin, includes the major, minor and seventh chords. http://acousticmusictv.com/html/Mandolin%20Pages/2FingerAChordMandolin.html

Mandolin Major Chords and 2 Finger Mandolin Chords

Full and 2 Finger Mandolin Chords from our Chord Sample Pages

Continuing with pages from our sample pdfs this page which comes from the first in the series includes our 2 Finger Mandolin Chords chart and the full Major Chord chart. This page just has the major chords but is a great quick reference to get you started. To get the full series of sample pages from our music book sign-up over on the right

Left Hand Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo Now Shipping at Amazon

Left Hand Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo

We are pleased to announce the release of our newest music chord book Left Hand Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo.

Left Hand Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo is a left hand version of our popular chord chart book for the beginning music player, Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo. Left Hand Chords contains fingering charts for guitar, mandolin, ukulele and banjo chords and a variety of other music charts for playing rock, folk, country and blues music.

Simple, clean, easy to read fingering charts for all players showing the 7 basic Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo chords, A-G for Major, Minor and 7th chords. Includes the I, IV, V chord progressions for each key. Plus movable Guitar fingerings for barre chords, arpeggio scales, and soloing scales for folk, country, rock and blues, and movable Mandolin arpeggio scales. Includes a variety of 4 and 5 string banjo tunings. The charts are designed to be easy to read and follow.

Left Hand Chords also includes blank sheet music and chord box pages for each instrument that you can photocopy. Each sheet music page has the lines spread apart for ease in writing down your music.
Left Hand Chords are based on instruments that have been restrung for left hand players.



Available at Amazon.com (affiliate link)

Mandolin Photo Chord Book, Initial Design Concept

Thanks everyone who made comments and voted on my mandolin chord pictures, Photo A's view was the clear winner but there was also a strong vote for using both photos in the book. Above is an image with my first pass for the page design of the new chord photo book. I would love any comments on it good or bad. I will reshoot the photos but they will be along this line. 

 The thought is to include a variety of ways to show chords, pictures, fret board, chord box, staff lines and TAB lines.  FPO means for position only, I don't have that image at the moment but that is where one would go.

Mandolin Moveable Arpeggio Scale for Any Key

Page from our Essential Chords for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo book of our moveable arpeggio scale for any Mandolin Key. This chart allows you to use arpeggios for doing solos. This movable chart will work for any key as it can be moved up and down the fret board.

Songs for mandolin, (amazon affiliate link)

Notebook Music Chord Charts Now on Amazon

We now have our full 36 pages Notebook Music Chord Charts Book on Amazon. It has taken a while and there have been many version but this is the big one and we are very proud of it. In color with all of our chord and music charts.

Why is the Mandolin Such a Hard Instrument to Play?

Why is the Mandolin Such a Hard Instrument to Play? 
I saw this headline fly by today on a blog about playing the mandolin. I never thought of it that way, in fact I think it is one of the easier string instrument to play. Especially if you just use the two finger chords. You only have to know three basic finger positions and you can play any song by just moving your hand up or down the fret board.


The mandolin doesn't have a 5th string tuned lower that caused all of the different fingerings. The strings are all tuned the same so the fingerings work anywhere on the fret board. You can use one of the three finger positions illustrated below to play a major, minor or 7th chord. Then just sliding up or down the fret board you can play different chords. Each fret is 1/2 step, so depending on the key you are in you only have to move up or down 1 or 2 frets to the next chord.

If you are on the bottom two strings you get low sounding chords, excellent for verses. If you are on the upper two strings you get higher sounding chords, excellent for the chorus. Playing this way gives you some nice dynamics without having to know a lot.

2 Finger Movable Chord I, IV, V Progression Chart

Using our 2 Finger Mandolin Progression Chart you can play the basic I, IV, V Chord progression in any key with Major, Minor and the 7th Chord. Simple to figure out and use. This chart also shows you how the progressions fit together. This allows you to mix and match and give your music color and life. You just need to identify the root chord for the key on the fret board and you can move up or down. Each chord can be found in several places.

On a personal note, thank you for all the kind messages and notes we have been getting from blog viewers about our charts, they are very nice. I have worked on figuring these charts out starting 10 years when I started learning Guitar and then moved to Mandolin with a side trip to Ukulele. I have put a real push on the the last years and then a big push in the last two months to get them finished. With a big thanks to my friend Bo who suggested "hey how about adding color to make them better". So thank you all and I have a few more coming, but at the moment I am working on filling in the download pages with some of my favorite products.

See all of our chord and music charts at www.AcousticMusicTV.com

2 Finger Mandolin Chord Chart

Our second of our 4 Mandolin charts, the 2 Finger Mandolin Chord Chart. The two finger mandolin chart contains the Major, Minor and 7th Chords, plus a fret board chart. Also included are several alternative fingerings for G, Gm, G7, Em and D. Sign up for a free major chord sampler over on the right.

I play the two finger chords most of the time, and what is great about them is that there are easy to find from the several to chose from on the mandolin. (I should do a video on this) The different voices, high and low, are great for getting different colorings for between the verses and choruses. To get your free pdf mandolin chord charts just fill in the sign up form on the right. Plus we are also now offering a printed cover stock, 3 hole punch version.

Need a good place to start learning to play the Mandolin, check out this book, Beginning Mandolin (Book & DVD) by Greg Horne at Amazon, (affiliate link)