Sweet! Yeah, the violin and the mandolin are both pretty good for that. I've played some Irish mandolin tunes on the fiddle before, and then I've also tried playing some classical stuff on the mando. It's really fun. I've tried to do some guitar and piano songs on the fiddle before, like Sweet Home Alabama and Eleanor Rigby. It's also fun to try and figure songs out by ear (that's how I learned Amazing Grace and Boil 'em Cabbage). But, then I'm a Suzuki kid, so that's just the way I do things by default.
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