Chords on lutes are often approached from the viewpoint of playing basso continuo, so a good place to look is in books teaching just that. For example Nigel North's Continuo Playing on the Lute ... (Faber) or the tutor published by the French Lute Society. Both give some chord charts before going on to other aspects of continuo playing.
But take out your guitar, put a capo at the third fret, tune the third string a half step down and play all the chords you're familiar with. You're now playing in renaissance lute tuning. Shouldn't be too complicated. good luck David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Narada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Lute Net'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 4:31 PM Subject: [LUTE] Lute Chord Confusion > Greetings, > > Well I'm now utterly confused with regards to chords on the lute. Can > someone recommend where I can get hold of a definitive book of chord > shapes for 6 course lute or possibly 8 course or a decent link. The > confusion has arisen out of looking at a website that gives full barre > chords, which seems to be at odds with other information that I've got. > > This would be extremely helpful as I would like to transcribed 'Le > Clochard' from guitar to 6 course manually rather than using Guitar Pro, > so that I can get a better understanding of the transcription process > > Kindest Regards > > Neil Woodhouse ( UK ) > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
