mandolin tabs

[ChrisF]

Hey i'm new to these boards. I've been playing guitar since i was about 6 (i'm 19 now) and i've been listening to nickel creek for quite a long time. Lately i've been looking into buying a mandolin, which has been inspired by nickel creek. I was never really exposed to what a mandolin could do untill i listened to nickel creek and i really gained an appreciation for its sound. I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good site where i could find accurate nickel creek mandolin tabs. Me and my two friends who play together cover a couple nickel creek songs already just for fun and i think adding the mandolin would make them sound even better. We also write our own songs and i think the mandolin would give our songs a different kind of sound. I'd like to learn some nickel creek songs just to practice and learn the mandolin a little bit using songs that are familiar if i decide to get one. Any help would be great. Thanks

[mychang]

Originally posted by ChrisF
Hey i'm new to these boards. I've been playing guitar since i was about 6 (i'm 19 now) and i've been listening to nickel creek for quite a long time. Lately i've been looking into buying a mandolin, which has been inspired by nickel creek. I was never really exposed to what a mandolin could do untill i listened to nickel creek and i really gained an appreciation for its sound. I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good site where i could find accurate nickel creek mandolin tabs. Me and my two friends who play together cover a couple nickel creek songs already just for fun and i think adding the mandolin would make them sound even better. We also write our own songs and i think the mandolin would give our songs a different kind of sound. I'd like to learn some nickel creek songs just to practice and learn the mandolin a little bit using songs that are familiar if i decide to get one. Any help would be great. Thanks

your best bet for accuracy is probably to buy the songbooks

i've looked at some online NC tabs and they aren't that great (unless there's a site i'm missing)

for general mando tabs you could try www.mandozine.com (in TablEdit format); there's some fairly accurate Thile solo stuff on there

[creaker]

The NC songbooks only have music notation for mandolin, no tabs.

[mychang]

Originally posted by creaker
The NC songbooks only have music notation for mandolin, no tabs.

really?
that's ok

better off learning to read standard notation anyways, right?