Rebutting myself here, any new mind tricks for a new situation (good practice at home) can go right out the window once you're actually doing stuff live in concert; if you have the time written out transcriptions in any format that you can read/play in your sleep is going to be far preferable once the rubber hits the road.
>Read the notation as if you were playing in the original key on an A >lute. Any experience reading guitar notation (except for the 2 staff >actual octave pitch) one simply pretends to be back on the guitar, >but with an additional high a string. Of course A tuned theorbists >would also find this practical. Transposing tab also an option, it's >all just symbols. > >Dan > > >> A singer has asked me to accompany her on "Come heavy sleep" and "Time >> stands still." The problem is, she wants to sing them in F (down a >> whole step) because it's a better range for her voice. Has anyone >> tried transposing them down? Any thoughts on how well (or not) this >> works? >> I could tune down to 415 but I'm not sure she'll go for that. >> thanks, > > Caroline -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
