IV. Fingering // MAR 10th

Marek Tabisz Marek, this is a perfectly fine fingering! Great job! 🎉 the only thing that I would personally do differently is play the first E (fourth note) with the 2nd finger rather than with the 1st. This is because 1) it will allow me to prepare the 2 in advance; 2) I won't have to "close" my hand following the very open position required for the first three notes. But in general, this fingering should work!

Marek Tabisz Oh cool! Great - in that case, I think this fingering works very well!

JOHN ANDERSON Thank you so much, John!!! Very happy to hear you enjoyed it! And looking forward to seeing some of your exercises, perhaps! 😁

Desi Husband the chart is a great idea! My dad made something like this for me when he was learning guitar with me by sitting in on my lessons when I had just started to learn from a private teacher!

When it comes to the fingering, great question! This one is valid, however, there is an alternative that I'll explain below.

First of all, if you do play everything on the sixth string, as you showed in this fingering, I would change the fingers on the second half of measure 1 (D, E, F) - remember incomplete measures are not generally counted, so the measure that starts with a C is your measure 1. I would use 1 (index finger) for D and 3 (ring finger) for E.

I would also change some of the fingerings in the next measure, namely to what I've attached here. This might make it easier to play.

Secondly, try using both the sixth and fifth string to play this passage, rather than just the sixth! My prompt "try to play without open strings" does not mean that everything should necessarily be on the same string, although that's not wrong either. It's certainly easier on the fingers if you combine them, so give it a go and see what it feels like!

Colin O'Regan great job on all of these!!! Thank you for sending them in and sharing with us. There is very little for me to say this on account of how good everything sounds and looks! Congratulations and keep it up 😀

4a: Perfect!!! 🎉 Nothing for me to say here at all. Wonderful job!

4b: Great job! Well done on following the prompt and playing everything in such a fluid tempo and with such good voice leading! One little detail: the first note in measure 3 was supposed to be a C. You played it as a D. Possibly just a slip of the moment though! Great job on everything overall.

4e: Perfect once again!! 🤩 Great job on everything - this was great!

Colin O'Regan No problem, Colin - these things happen!