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- From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: Re: myth debunking 101
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:31:00
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- -=> Lynn Gold said to All on 11-14-92 11:24 <=-
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- LG> full-time and had no time for anything else. Still, my guitar playing
- LG> is at best, passable. My left hand has suffered permanent nerve damage,
- LG> and I'm just not that coordinated to begin with. All the practice in
- LG> the world isn't going to change that.
-
- I would offer as a suggestion what I am doing with one of my students who
- has both VERY tiny hands AND some nerve damage....retune the guitar to an
- "open G" tuning (DGDGBD) and use 5-string banjo chords on it. Most of these
- chordings can be made with only the first three fingers of the left hand,
- or can be made by a straight barre across the appropriate fret. Key changes
- can be handled by use of a capo, or by other open tunings, such as "open
- E" (favored by Joni Mitchell) (EBEG#BE) and the like.
-
- Try it. It just might open the guitar up for you.
-
- Either that, or decide to be -really- annoying (like me!) and learn bodhran.
-
- <evil grin!>
-
-
- ... The filk was great at this year's WesterCon!
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- --- WM v2.04/92-0475
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