Re: Barry Galbraith's Fingering on Donna Lee

Thanks for sharing this. I find Barry's material - the Aebersold books
and chord melody volumes - to be bottomless, and this adds more stuff.
I'm going to checkout his fingering here.

Thanks again.

-- Todd

Gerry wrote:
After having hassled a friend for years over having lost this chart,
among others, I found it inside a music folio I haven't opened in 10
years! That still doesn't account for the others he lost though.

It's quite ugly, since it's a 30 year-old mimeograph. I scanned the
original, then half-assed cleaned the top two staffs, then the
remaining page. I started hand-editing it back into legibility and then
thought, who cares? If you can't figure out what it says somewhere let
me know: I probably remember.

The original scan, and the partial clean will be available for a couple
of days here:

<http://tinyurl.com/mrorf>

In his charts he doesn't indicate position in Roman numerals by fret as
in classical repertoire. Instead he indicates the string number for a
note and the finger number. Then all the rest is logical relative to
that location until you have to shift. His dictum was "if you find
yourself running out of room and have to shift up or down, it means you
should have shifted two bars before." So in his charts he
overwhelmingly indicated either 1-1 or 2-2: He believed that in reading
you should shift with your first or second finger, except under limited
circumstances, and that you should be shifting, or sliding, a single
fret at a time. "What about this clear need for a whole step shift?" I
said. "You should have shifted a half step back there." And so forth.

There are a number of places in this chart where circumstances demand
he indicate other fingers for clarity, since there are 5-fret stretches.

Initially I had asked him about diagonal shifting, where one shifts up
and over (or down and over) for each string. He asked, "You mean like
a diminished arpeggio?". I said I didn't play diminished arpeggios like
that and so Donna Lee was the next tune we worked on. The diagonals
are indicated in the the fourth bar from the end.
--
What a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in.

.

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