Dear Mark, Why not get all the tutors available, since everyone has their own method and ideas?
That said, I did some work on Miguel's tutor (the introduction to French lute music) and when I got my copy of the book I was very pleasantly surprised: it has very solid information about the lute, it's history, its composers, it has in depth discussions of left-hand and right-hand technique and tone production, as well as instructions on how to do things such as change frets. Most of all, though, Miguel did a really good job of bringing together a huge amount of music from a wide variety of (often manuscript) sources that are classed into three distinct and easy to use levels of difficulty. The tutor is really quite comprehensive and not only can it get you started, but I thin it could keep you going for a long time. Best, Benjamin -- www.luthiste.com t +33 (0) 1 44 27 03 44 p/m +33 (0) 6 71 79 98 98 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
