[VIHUELA] Re: Foscarini again -

[Stuart Walsh]

Rob wrote:
Well, my first stupid mistake was to play for the first chord a Gm chord
instead of a Bb chord! Must revise my alfabeto!! After that I more or less
got it right...

Rob

www.rmguitar.info
 
 
  

It's a very nice sound. After reading Martyn's defence of strum marks as 
strum marks I've been trying to play the particular section that Monica 
mentions with strums. And I appreciate that, in this particular case, it 
can be done - and  you can certainly do it far better than I ever 
could!  I've tried playing along with your version - but: it's not 
happening!

I wonder if you've added at least one bar towards the end. I'm sure 
there is definitely something dodgy about line 8, penultimate bar to 
final bar on that line (bars 10-11 in Monica's transcription). I think 
there is a bar  - or more - missing and you have unconsciously 
compensated for it.

Rob, while you have your guitar in one hand and the Edirol in the other, 
try playing line one, second half of bar 4. The single note (a) on the 
first course is marked with a strum sign. Can you physically play the 
preceding chord and add the a? And even if you could, does it sound 
remotely plausible as chord? And again the last two bars of line two, 
especially the penultimate bar. Can you strum them? Could you make a 
recording of a bit more of this piece?

Finally , line 9, bar 4. how  do you add a top g to a full barre Bb 
chord? And the penultimate note of the penultimate bar: how do you add, 
physically, add an a to a C minor chord? Surely this must be single note 
(but it's got a strum sign).

I think Monica must be right in saying that some of Foscarini's strum 
signs aren't actually strum signs. And there are strum signs all over 
the place in Foscarini.


Stuart


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 13 January 2008 16:40
To: 'Martyn Hodgson'; 'Stuart Walsh'; vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Foscarini again -

I've made a stab at interpreting this on the guitar:
www.rmguitar.info/temp.htm 

I think this is what Martyn is getting at - please forgive me, Martyn, if it
isn't. Obviously it is only an attempt after a couple of read-throughs, and
I got a little lost, but the general idea is, I think, one being forwarded
by Martyn. So apart from being slightly out of tune and hesitant in parts,
is there anything wrong with the interpretation? I think it is a reasonable
assumption of Foscarini's intentions - anyway, it is his fault for not being
explicit!.

Rob MacKillop
 




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