Subject: RE: Left Hand Rehab for Guitar
From: sharyn - PM
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 10:52 AM

"Piers Plowman, thanks for the wealth of suggestions."

You're welcome. I hope you find some of them at least helpful.

"I suspect I will know my way around the guitar better before this is over: I almost never play out of first position unless using a capo."

Even though I know the fingerboard quite well, it takes an effort not to dive back to first position at the earliest opportunity.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using a capo, though.

"Pause for universal jeers. I am a singer, mainly using the guitar for song accompaniment."

No jeering from me. That's a perfectly reasonable way to use the guitar. However, the more you put into practicing the guitar, the more you will get out of it.

"While I can read music, I generally prefer not to."

I don't play from music, either. However, it is very worthwhile to do so sometimes. There's a lot of easy music of the Renaissance, either for the guitar or (mostly) lute music transcribed for the guitar.

"No squeezing motions allowed yet, except those that occur ordinarily in life."

Ooh, err missus!