> I find this very difficult just to play the individual lines, let alone > play them alongside the other lines. Maybe, as been suggested, playing > the music without bar-lines would make things easier. Personally, I > think that would make thing quite impossible. In fact I'd rather > re-write bits of it and have ties all over the place to see where the > underlying pulse is, even if no note actually falls on it.
Put away the score. Work from parts. In time you will get the knack of staying together, dropping notes as needed until you get the riffs into your fingers. Ligatures help, prefer music that has them or indicates them, and learn to read them. I notice from J'ay pris amours that you have discovered Ogni Sorte editions, good start there. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html