Yes - indeed. This is the age old question - Open courses - to
include or not to include? For example - Bartolotti with his wonderful
system has still not made it clear whether the 1st or 2nd courses
should be included in chords which start on the 4th and 5th courses.
In some case
Indeed, I only mentioned this particular chord as an example: the
source I mentioned also has many other partially strummed chords with
other courses not to be struck. I wonder how much this was an unwritten
practice which we ought to apply more widely in other tablature sources
wh
To my knowledge none of the sources go into such detail about R-hand
technique. De Visee is one of the people who does put dots on the 1st
course but as far as I can see all he says is..
"When there are dots on some of the lines as you may see here (ex.) you
should not strike the str
Various 5 course guitar tablature sources ask for partial strums in
which only some of the courses are to be strummed; unstrummed
courses being indicated by dots (although the practice may, of course,
be more widespread than suggested only by the tablatures with these
dots).
A
