Yes, the left hand thumb, unregarded but vital. I do quite often mark in 'fingerings' for it, to remind myself where it should go for difficult shifts or awkward chords. Makes a lot of difference.
P 2008/9/28 Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sep 28, 2008, at 12:53 AM, damian dlugolecki wrote: Regular breathing is essential to maintaining composure while playing; but I wonder if some of you might think about breathing in more detail when learning a piece. Do you breathe differently when playing a Courante than an un-measured prelude? A wonderful insight. I think the essential thing about breathing is the link with phrasing. All the greats keep telling us to sing. Must be something to it. There are other things we tend to ignore that can really help, like plotting the course of the left hand thumb when you are working out fingerings. Not to mention just being aware of the whole body and where tensions are. Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [3]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Peter Martin Belle Serre La Caulie 81100 Castres France tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: [6]www.silvius.co.uk [7]http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ [8]www.myspace.com/sambuca999 [9]www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty -- References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. http://www.silvius.co.uk/ 7. http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ 8. http://www.myspace.com/sambuca999 9. http://www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty