On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 00:48 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Thomas Morley <[email protected]> writes: > > > Well, in classical Guitar-scores the strike-direction is _always_ > > related to the pitches.
What does that mean? > > Even for 0-14-14-13-0-0 ? > > > ↑ means from bottom-pitch up to top-pitch. Always. I'm not aware of > > any exception. Up-arrow, as indicated above, is a strum, or pluck with a plectrum, towards the floor. > > > > In notated Flamenco-guitar-music the same. > > > > Only in guitar-music to be played with a pick it's the opposite. > > This inconsistency is disturbing. > > To be fair: with a pick you can play a single string in either direction > and pitches are no longer a help for figuring stroke direction. When > playing classical guitar, you don't play a single string with the back > of a finger. A tremolo is done by alternating fingers, not by reversing > the stroke direction. > In Flamenco as well as in fingerstyle guitar there are instances where one produces a tremelo by rapid strumming with the index-finger of the right hand. Another instance, in classical guitar, would be in the first movement of Kazuhito Yamashita's transcription of Dvorak's Ninth Symphony. I don't have a copy of that readily available. But it is a quick succession of the index finger back and forth across the strings. I do have examples in fingerstyle guitar (Leo Kottke) where strike direction is indicated by arrows within the tablature. An ^ up-arrow indicates a strum towards the floor. Rachael source: degree in guitar performance _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
