The tablature illustrations in Noad's books gave me the idea of playing from tablature sources. Since then my career "started slowly, then tapered off." r
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Durbrow Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:18 AM To: Tobiah; LuteNet list Subject: [LUTE] Re: Segovia and Pujol (was Bream Collection…) and now what? Yeah, but he had good taste in music. I had three of his books. On Dec 17, 2013, at 2:19 AM, Tobiah <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/16/2013 08:55 AM, Sean Smith wrote: >> >> What? No love for Frederick Noad's, The Renaissance Guitar? > > That book and others put me off of the Renaissance because I found > that most of the pieces, though simple enough looking, were full of > awkward fingerings that took more effort to master then was worth the > underlying music. Later, perusing Ness' Frank book, and working out > the tuning, I found that I could go back to the Noad with the 3rd down > a half-step and have a much better time of it. It also caused me to > lament that the grand staff had not originally been chosen for the > guitar. Someone had a fetish for ledger lines, I suppose. > > Toby > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ --
