I find it a very natural technique to rest my thumb on
> the fifth course when I make a strum with two or three fingers. I
> wonder if Corbetta did that.

We don't really know. I would say that if any finger (or thumb) is supposed
to be on a string somewhere, there should be an indication in the tablature.
Interesting thought.

2nd line bar 2 works perfectly this way,
> making a dom7th. 5th line bar 3, it looks like a dot eliminating the
> first course which I would guess applies to the last eighth strum
> too.

That is not standard procedure anyway.

Eliminating the 5th course here isn't necessary but I might do
> it anyway. This hemiola cadence makes sense to me: D-D(with lower
> appogiatura)-A in the 2nd and 3rd bars. >

In the treble melody. How about the low d of the 4th course? We suppose it
was there with Corbetta.

> I don't get what is painful.

Not so much the hand or even the ear. I sometimes get headaches because of
the inaccurate notation.

Lex




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