[VIHUELA] Re: Chord I

[Monica Hall]

   That's very helpful and interesting what you say about the technique
   being standard for blues and jazz.  There's obviously a long tradition
   there.



   Monica

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   From: [1]Rob MacKillop

   To: [2]Monica Hall

   Cc: [3]Vihuelalist

   Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 1:42 PM

   Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Chord I

   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 <[4]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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