Some teachers teach the rest stroke in the bass for both renaissance and baroque. I don't, because it unfortunately affects the wrist and then the tone. I've heard some people do it it well, but there is often a bump in the sound, and also the technique is prone to timing issues. Perhaps that is fixable. You can make a case for a "grazing" stroke, however. I do teach and rely upon the single graze and double graze for chords, and particularly for the earlier repertory. Basically, the thumb hits one or two and the first finger hits two, three, or four simultaneously. When struck properly, all strings vibrate in a plane, which I now can test with a high speed camcorder. dt
At 03:34 PM 1/18/2010, you wrote: >Do any early sources describe something that could be interpreted >as a "rest stroke" being used on the chanterelle? > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: David R <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 6:26 pm >Subject: [LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke > > >I think it came into use with the Venetian lutenists from 1500 or >so. Obviously you can't use rest strokes when you're playing >thumb-index diminutions, and you don't want to be damping the string >directly below your thumb if it's supposed to be sounding, but as a >general rule I think that wherever possible rest-stroke was the >default way to strike a bass string with your thumb right from the beginning. > >Nobody knows what Dowland did. Is it so important? > >DR > >On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:31 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > I'm curious as to when it is thought the rest stroke for the > > thumb came > > into common use. Was it commonly used on the Renaissance > lute? > Do we > > think Dowland used it early, or late, or at all in his career? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Ned > > > > -- > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >--
