On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I think of thumb-over as allowing use of m-i whenever desired. > So, I > think of the person useing thumb over technique as using m-i > more than > the person using thumb under - at least whenever bass notes are > present > along with treble ones. So, for example, if a section in 4/4 > has 16th > notes in the treble throughtout a measure with quarter-note bass > notes > (see the 5th from the last measure of Dowland's "A Fancy" - > number 5 in > Poulton's edition) I would approach that (using thumb under) by > playing > the last three 16th notes of each group of four with i-p-i. My > assumption - perhaps not correct - is that the thumb-over player > would > most likely play those 16th notes i-m-i, keeping the thumb in > the bass > area ready to play the bass notes.
Not correct in my case. I play thumb-out (or at least I did last time I actually looked) and bring the thumb up to play the stronger treble notes. Not difficult at all. It's easy to make far too much of the difference between thumb in and thumb out. To say that one hand position makes something easier is not to say that the other makes it difficult or impossible. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
