Klarinet Archive - Posting 000336.txt from 2002/10

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Help?
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:08:22 -0400

I wrote,
> The thumb has no left hand notation because it's the clamp, around the back

> of the guitar's neck.

Mark Charette wrote,
>>Sure it does (I remember it as T or 0).

My book must be out of date. Thanks, Mark.

>>Try playing a 9/6
[later corrected: >>I meant 6/9 chord ...]
>>or simple 9th chord without your thumb wrapped
>>up & around the neck fretting the E & A ;^) Jazz
>>& blues players use the thumb for a lot of the chords.

Gads. They must be jazz and blues players with bigger, smarter left thumbs
than mine! Mine's a dumb thumb. A stunted dumb thumb. Unless the stunted,
dumb sector of the wetware misunderstands how this trick is done, laying my
thumb down on the frets means I can't reach the frets with my equally stunted
but somewhat less dumb 4th and 5th fingers. I should leave the guitar to the
guitarists anyway--"Land of a Thousand Dances" is about my speed on guitar.
;-)

Lelia

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