[VIHUELA] Re: Chord I

[EUGENE BRAIG IV]

   Depending on context (where I've come from and where I have to go from
   there), I will use 1st finger on fourth and third course and 2nd finger
   on second or 2nd finger on the fourth course, 1st on third, and 3rd on
   second.
   Eugene
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Rob MacKillop <luteplay...@googlemail.com>
   Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009 8:42 am
   Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Chord I
   To: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
   Cc: Vihuelalist <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
   >    I use the 2nd finger on the 2nd course, and the
   > first finger on the
   >    other two courses. I have no problem with the open
   > first string
   >    sounding. I show beginner-ish students this
   > technique and invariable
   >    they can't bend their first finger inwards at the
   > first joint, but some
   >    who have played blues and or jazz guitar before
   > have no problem - it is
   >    fairly standard technique for those styles.
   >
   >
   >
   >    Rob
   >
   >    2009/10/11 Monica Hall <[1]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
   >
   >        This is a rather abstruse query.
   >        In most Italian guitar
   > tables of alfabeto chords which include the
   >      left
   >        hand fingering the
   > indication is that Chord I is to be played
   >      using a
   >        half (or hinge) barre to
   > stop the 4th and 3rd courses and the 2nd
   >        finger to stop the 2nd
   > course at the 2nd fret.
   >                    0
   >                    2    1
   >                    2    1
   >                    2    2
   >                    0
   >        This doesn't seem to me the
   > most convenient way of doing it
   >      especially
   >        when combined with other
   > chords and I always use 1st, 2nd and 3rd
   >        fingers.
   >        Ruiz de Ribayaz does give
   > my preferred  fingering as an
   >      alternative to
   >        the Italian one.
   >        Both Sanz and Murcia seem
   > to think that the 4th course should be
   >        stopped with the 1st finger
   > and a 2nd finger half barre used to
   >      stop
   >        the 2nd and 3rd which seems
   > a bit odd to me!
   >        I wonder if Sanz is a
   > misprint which Murcia has copied.
   >        In the illustrations of the
   > fingers stopping the chords on the
   >        fingerboard in Sanz the
   > standard Italian fingering is shown.
   >        I just wonder how everyone
   > else on this list usually fingers chord
   >      I
   >        and what the advantages are
   > of the different possibilities.
   >        Monica
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