Good luck, Jim. I've learned to read in about six or seven tunings, not all equally well, I'll readily admit, but I have a kind of method (if that is what the word 'heuristic' means?!).
1. Learn some basic major scale patterns 2. Play those scales in tenths (this is a really useful exercise) 3. Work out all the basic major and minor chords 4. Now you know where all the notes are, start reading the single-note pieces from Bach's violin sonatas and partitas, such as the 'doubles' from the Bm partita, analyzing the basic chords as you go 5. Start learning figured bass, simple stuff, just bass notes and a few tenths here and there. Soon it will all begin to fall into place. Well, that's the way I've always done it. Works, more or less, for me. Rob www.rmguitar.info -----Original Message----- From: Jim Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2007 19:42 To: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Playing CG duet on lute? Hi all, I've been talking to Ray Brohinsky about playing duets with recorder. I've been playing them on CG, but now that I have a (baroque) lute, I'd like to spend my time there. Is there a heuristic for playing baroque lute from standard notation without transcribing? Ray had some ideas, but does anyone else? Regards, Jim -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
