Suzanne Learn to play from sight single melodies on both your lutes. That's easy enough, as your ears will soon guide your fingers. Choose the lute you use most to learn reading from 'piano notation' on bass and treble clef. I'd suggest you take your g'-lute for that, as much lute music transcribed into tablature is transcribed for a lute in g'. The English lute songs, for example, much music in the CNRS series, &c. Furthermore, most lesson books on continuo and most written out examples will presume a lute in g'. Of course, you'll also find lute music transcribed for a'-lute, notably early Italian and German music, but you might want to save that for your next learning project. A good place to start, apart from the editions mentioned above, is the Fuzeau edition of '50 Renaissance & Baroque Standards', edited by Pascale Boquet and Gérard Rebours. Nice melodies to play, bass lines added to practice those too, fun do-it-yourself-continuo and improvisation lessons.
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