Play, say, the first string with your index finger. Follow the stroke through until it rests on the second string. That’s a rest stroke.

Cheers, Nils. Appreciated.

Cheers, Barry!

@quarlmephystodot2201 Okay. Let’s hear your version.

Thank you, but I’m not able to at the moment.

Thanks, Paul. Yes, not a great seven months, but I’m home now and slowly recovering.

Cheers, Rick. Volume 2 is often ignored, but there’s some good stuff in there.

@@rickjensen2717 cheers, Rick. I started by jamming along with Muddy Waters 😎

Likewise your comment!

Thank you. Glad you liked it!

Thank you! Glad you liked it :-)

Glad you think so!

Best wishes for your musical progress, Karen!

@@gimpyjwilliams Thanks. I normally use gut strings, and want the first string to last more than just a few hours. So, that’s one of the reasons I tune lower. Plus, historically pitch was lower. There is nothing ‘correct’ about A = 440, which was brought about for orchestral players. These days I just tune to where the guitar sounds best on any given day.

I use high tension BUT tuned down a tone or semitone. If you want it at modern pitch where A=440hz, then I would use a lighter set. But, really, high tension at a lower pitch generally sounds much better.

@@RobMacKillop1 Thank you for your explanation. I will try to tune at a lower pitch.

Thanks. Hopefully you meant DADGAD?

@ , Yes.. I sure did.. Big thumbs..

@@2023-yn4kc Good to know. I am very pleased you like it. Good luck with your studies!

@@RobMacKillop1 Thank you very much

Yes, I am. Thanks for the comments. I resisted 'editing' the scores, apart from one or two obvious mistakes - right fret, wrong string, for instance, which is quite common in early tablatures. I ended up recording a whole album of Foscarini's music, available currently in CD format only, from Aventino Music. They will release download and streaming versions in February.

Good for you! 😎

@ wow great to hear from you and Happy New Year! I just sent my bass playing brother to buy your books and he did!

@@Poodleoop Good to know! I hope he likes them!

@ He will love them

Please stay to the very end of the video, where I give the info you need.

What kind of Ukulele is it? What strings do you recommend for this tuning?

@ The company was one guy in Edinburgh, who went under the name of Fidra ukuleles. It’s a tenor, and I use 5ths-tuning strings from Aquila, but you could use other strings for regular ukulele tuning if you want. The instrument with case cost me £1400, and is in excellent condition at a great price. Shipping would need to be added.

Thanks for that. Sounds plausible.

Thanks, Michael. Much appreciated. Best wishes for the new year!

What do you want to know?

​@@RobMacKillop1 A luthier will make one for me and my question is what gauges and tunings to use? Also, is an 8-string guitar better or more viable?

​@@RobMacKillop1 Thank you very much for answer me.

@@juancarlosharo8911 Have a read of this page of my website: rmclassicalguitar.com/multi-string-guitars/ There are two main tunings. One is named after Narciso Yepes: standard 6-string tuning, then a low C for the 7th string. Then it goes UP to A#, down a tone to G#, down another tone to F#. The reason for this is so that all notes of the chromatic scale can have sympathetic resonance. The other tuning has stepped basses for the lowest four strings: DCBA. This is sometimes called Baroque tuning, sometimes Romantic tuning. Aquila-corde sell full sets for each of the two tunings: Yepes: aquilacorde.com/en/shop/modern-instrument-string-sets/10-strings-classical-guitar/accordatura-yepes-chitarra-a-10-corde/ and Baroque (referred to here as Diatonic) aquilacorde.com/en/shop/modern-instrument-string-sets/10-strings-classical-guitar/10-strings-classical-guitar-baroque-tuning/ The 8-string guitar I found frustrating as often the bass notes had to be fingered by the left hand, whereas on the 10-string, often the bass notes would be open strings.

@@RobMacKillop1 Thank you very much for the information. The article is wonderful and very educational. I appreciate the links for the string sets according to the tuning. Is there the possibility of tuning like the 8-string? I mean: From bass to treble F#BEADgbe or is this option not viable?

@@seosergiobossampb6422 Thanks!

Well, that's not a comment I expected. Nice to make contact 😎 Thanks to your tenth great grandfather we have some beautiful lute music. Actually, his manuscript got lost in the 19th century, but was copied thankfully, but only partially. The copyist said he missed out many of the dances, which everyone knew anyway. But at least his copy survives, and it has many fine tunes in it. He was also a superb cartographer, as you probably know, and I have a fine reproduction on my wall of his map of Scotland. Best wishes to you from a surprisingly mild Edinburgh! Rob

Thank you for responding! Also, thank you for that info and yes, I’ve been reading anything I can find about Robert Gordon. Apparently our Scottish roots run deep as I was able to trace my earliest relative to the birth year of 990 which is pretty amazing. My genealogy journey has been fascinating since I wasn’t aware of my family’s Scottish roots (mostly English and Irish on my Grandmothers side). I guess my last name “Scott” might have been my first clue ;) I visited Edinburgh in 2022 with family and absolutely loved the city and got to see some really great local Scottish folk musicians which was one of the highlights of the visit. Toured my way around the city having no idea that I had roots in Scotland. Excited to visit again and explore more of my family’s roots while there. Anyway, enough about me. Again, thank you for your response and thank you for sharing your beautiful acoustic playing here on KZbin. I’ll be listening, enjoying it, and sharing it over here across the pond :)

Thank you, Micha. It is a piece that allows for a variety of approaches. I am pleased you like mine.

@@docdavetaviner No, I don’t think so, in the same way that a regular set would not happily tune up to F#.

@@RobMacKillop1 Thanks Rob -- do you think they might break? (I'm not so concerned about the stress on the neck as I use a Gibson Hummingbird.) What scale length is your Ramirez? My Gibson is just over 25 inches

@@docdavetaviner There is a possibility they would break, but you should get a feel for that when tuning up for the first time. I would tune to A, then over a week slowly, incrementally, tune up to where you want to go if it still feels ok. Don’t blame me if you break your strings or guitar! You could tune to A and then use a capo on the 2nd fret? If the Hummingbird has 14 frets to the body, the capo would make that 12, just like a classical guitar. My Ramirez was an unusual 666mm, I’ve no idea what that is in inches. Good luck!

@@RobMacKillop1 Your Ramirez is an inch longer than my Gibson then, so that works in my favour, maybe to the extent that if I tuned to B-flat, the strings would have the same tension on my Gibson as they do on your Ramirez tuned to A. So, in effect, we could be talking about raising the strings a semitone relative to that tension. I normally tune down to D-flat, and if I can get up to a B that would be quite workable for me for the songs I play. So I'll give it a go, incrementally.

Glad you like it, Elane!

@RobMacKillop1 Thank you for sharing your music ❤️❤️

That's why we play...thank you.

No, they are all sugar - all three trebles.

I'd say some, not all. This piece sounds perfect on this guitar, with not a not changed from the original. Glad you like it!

Thanks, Andrea. I sit in front of a big window facing south. Sometimes the sun is too strong, and my camcorder adjusts the exposure automatically. Sometimes I have to darken it more in the editing suite. I am not technically-minded, only do the most basic edits.

Thank you once again, Adrian! I’d forgotten about this one.

Thanks for enlightening us, Timothy.

Well done, Kenny. That little bit of well-known knowledge has made you King for the day 🎉🎉🎉

Cheers, Michael. It's the best tuning for the cello suites. Everything fits under the hand. Should sound great on the U-Bass. Have fun! Some books of mine you might find useful: www.melbay.com/Products/30993M/classical-studies-for-tenor-banjo.aspx and www.melbay.com/Products/30430M/bachs-cello-suites-iiii-arranged-for-tenor-banjo.aspx - both books have TAB.

@@Anton_Chigurh_2007 You’ll remember it now 😎

@@johnny_rotvar Thanks. Tárrega just used standard tuning, occasionally with the 6th string at D. Glad you liked the video. I’m not sure I’ll make another on the same lines, but you never know.

Thanks for asking, Sam. If it is a purely student project, yes you can use this music. If it is a commercial project, we need to discuss that. More details, please, to robmackillop at gmail

Thanks for your comment. You might notice that the hammer on and pull off is on top of a three-string chord. I slightly arpeggiate the chord to give it a more ringing sound. Give it a try. Cheers, Rob.

Cheers, Kenny. Always better late than never ❤