Students' Corner

[GeoffB]

My thanks, along with those of Jean-François, to Rick (Beauregard), for generously volunteering to be our very first student tutor.

Any other advanced students who meet the criteria and would also be interested in helping out would be most welcome.

[Michael McGarty]

[Colin Bullock]

My thanks, along with those of Jean-François, to Rick (Beauregard), for generously volunteering to be our very first student tutor.

Thank Rick for giving your time to this, I’m sure we will all benefit from your experience.

[Rick Beauregard]

Thanks Colin. My small contribution for all you do to make this a great forum.

[LarryShone]

I'm looking forward to getting stuck in to the lessons. I will download and print off D01 today.

[LarryShone]

Can anyone tell me why this happened when I printed the score for exercise 1 on D01? All the half notes became a stick with a large arrow next to it. Printed from the pdf file on Windows 8.1

[Rick Beauregard]

Hmmm. I had this problem once and I can’t remember what I did to fix it. All I can say is go into the windows print menu and try some options. It’s a windows thing.

[LarryShone]

Thanks Rick. I drew the note circles in myself. It just allows me to practice without turning on the PC (I haven't used the pc in ages!)
Also when do I get the subtitle 'Student of the online lessons' under my name, or do I simply put it in myself?

[Rick Beauregard]

I’m not a mod Lar, so I can’t answer except to read and follow the instructions carefully. Send a message to the admin forum if you have site mechanics questions.

[LarryShone]

Oh well as long as I'm able to access the lessons its all good

[Colin Bullock]

Can anyone tell me why this happened when I printed the score for exercise 1 on D01? All the half notes became a stick with a large arrow next to it. Printed from the pdf file on Windows 8.1

I think it is to do with font sets. I’ve had the problem with Explorer and off ipad.
I found that printing via firefox or even better the free Adobe pdf program (reader ?) gave me clean copy.

[LarryShone]

Thanks Colin, I'll look into it next time.

[GeoffB]

I had the same thing once. If I remember correctly, I think I found that the inbuilt Windows PDF viewer wasn't fully compatible with my printer (which was having to use a generic printer driver in the absence of a specific Windows 8.1 version), and that using the free Adobe reader instead fixed it.

[LarryShone]

Thanks Geoff. I will look into this tomorrow, maybe put Adobe reader on.

[LarryShone]

Ok so as well as the lessons I've found a simple score of Ode to Joy, just using 2 strings. The bass is played on the bottom 3 strings, melody on the second and third. The question is is it okay to play the 6th string G with my 3rd finger and then use the 4th finger for the 2nd string D in the melody? I'm so stuck on 'correct' pima playing that I only play the bass strings with the thumb, the second finger (i) being reserved for the 3rd string, m for second string, a for second/first string.

Here is a (very rough) video of a first playing of the first 4 bars, just to establish difficulty level.