If Corbetta had left the fifth course open (no letter, no dot), like he
did
with so many other chords, most guitarists would probably not have
considered to include the fifth course (like they would not in all those
other situations).
Corbetta has explained the purpose of the dots and given an
I counted (very roughly) 170 chords with dots in LGR1671. Of which 66 are
incomplete N's (depending on definitions it could even be more), which is
more than one third. With 18 of these I do not see any advantage in
fingering of passing notes etc. In those 18 chords Corbetta could easily
have
it begs the question why Corbetta found it necessary to give this
instruction just with the incomplete N and not with so many other chords
patterns.
I'm not sure that is true. He is just inconsistent. In the first
Allemande - in B minor - he puts dots in several places but not when the
Le cantó el payador mazorquero
con un dulce gemir de vihuelas
en la reja que olía a jazmines,
en el patio que olía a diamelas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh4CfMutfwEfeature=related
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I am not quite sure what you mean by saying 'can do without a finger' on
the fifth course here, thus being
an instruction for the left hand in the first place?
It seems to me quite clear that dots are used to indicate that a course
should be omitted from the strum.
If Corbetta had left
