Asturias' notation - part of the melody on the g string?
Hi everyone! I'm currently working on Asturias and struggling a bit with bar 11 and bar 15 ; looking at different editions and videos it seems no one is playing it the same way 
It seems thought a lot of guitarists are staying on the 4th strings for the melody and shifting to play the D with the 4th finger. Does any of you play the D on the 3rd string instead ? or is it because it risks changing a bit the texture? but then you don't have to shift and are way more stable when playing fast ??
Thank you !! :)
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I've always played the D on the 4th string for consistency of "sound" for the melodic line. Especially in this case since the tone quality between 4th and 3rd strings is so significant.
Hope that helps!
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One of the things I’ve learned from Tonebase is that there are many ways to Skin the “catgut”. Do what seems most natural for you. A lot of Segovia and Villa Lobos pieces emphasize playing up and down the neck on the same string. But they are not listening to you and unless you’re performing in a master class nobody will notice the difference.
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Unless the issue is playing an open string versus a fretted note. If you don’t want to carry the tone over to the next note and can’t damp the open string easily opt for the fretted note.
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I agree with Barney here - the change of tone to the 3rd string is significant, unless you really work to equalise it, in which case it is less work to just make the shift, which is not technically very difficult, at least compared to what comes a few bars later!
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