On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Narada wrote: > I have over the months received a great deal of help from people here > which I greatly appreciate, but to be truthful flippant comments > such as > your second paragraph and some of the sarcasm I've been subjected to > makes me wonder whether this is worthwhile for me.
Hey man, no-one's looking down their noses okay? I think he was trying to say the same as I was, that you have to adapt the shapes you already know. Look at it this way: you already know the basic CAGED shapes on guitar. Okay, well in lute tuning you've got to adapt those shapes a little bit. Assume a lute in G tuning. Start with F major and minor chords. On the lute the root note is the open 4th string. The shapes for the F and Fm chords on the lute are going to be adaptations of the guitar D and Dm shapes. G and G minor are adapted from guitar E. A and A minor are adapted from guitar F#. B flat adapted from guitar G. C and C minor adapted from guitar A. D and Dm adapted from guitar B7. E flat adapted from C and so on. Hope that helps. David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
