I didn't see this one....
Very cool. I thought it sound pretty good, but more importantly, I was impressed that you could do that after 4 months. I've tried playing mandolin, but had trouble getting adjusted to the tight fretting. I do better going to bass guitar.
It's the tiny strings and tiny frets, very close together - challenging. It takes a lot more strength than you would think. Our son, who plays violin really well, decided he'd get one (saw a Chris Thile video, I think), and he was kind of shocked how little transferred, given the same tuning and approximately same scale length. Twice as many strings, and all steel core, where most violin players are working with nylon core on the wound (A-D) strings.
It was when I was setting his up that I decided I'd give it a go. (Talked an old friend out of the one he had, sitting unused for some years.) In fairness, I had taken a stab a fiddle about 25 years ago, before I'd re-started guitar, and played pretty regularly, but badly, for some years. It was when I realized our 10 year old son was playing stuff I couldn't ever begin to play that I kind of decided maybe focusing on guitar (again) was better for both of us
. Haven't touched the fiddle for over 12 years, I'd guess. Anyway, some of the fingerings for melody lines fall a bit easier for me, and I can read music, which is HUGE if you start looking at classical music like this. I suck at bluegrass, which is what I'm trying to learn, honestly. Chords and improvisation are a big lift (for me, anyway).
The nice thing is, I can go work on reading a piece like this when I'm tired of bloodying my head beating it on the desk trying to learn just one lead for a fiddle tune done by the teacher for the video lessons I'm taking. It's going to be two weeks to get up to speed with a Blackberry Blossom lead (by Mike Marshall), which is about what it took to just memorize this entire piece.
