I´m shortly going to set up a new chart - a little like my one-page chord chart for 5th tuned 4-stringers:

http://www.acoustudio.dk/TENOR%20BA...20CHORDS.htm

The new chart will focuse on chord settings using the thumb also - partly with added colorations, small scales within a chord etc., which will be possible due to the "extra" finger.

However I may have a problem - LOL!

I know, that US citiziens are naming their fingers T-1-2-3-4 (on both hands).

In an all metric country like Denmark we name them 1-2-3-4-5 (on left hand plus 6-7-8-9-10 on right hand - starting with the thumbs).

All non-US players,

How do you name/count fingers in your countries? LOL!

Regards

Polle

Posted - 11/05/2009 :  07:51:12      

PS!

I forgot to mention, that I in the new chart will point out which finger will have to go where. LOL!

An example - many tenor players have a problem forming a Dim-chord with their maybe fat 4 fingers - especially at the uppper end of the fretboard (Up means near the pot - aggree?).

Let the example be a Bbo in basic position - the chord setting will be 10-9-11-10 (fret number for 4th to 1st string) - a standard finger setting (in non-Danish terms) for this will be 2-1-4-3.

In the new chart the finger setting will be T-1-3-2 - try it - and once you master the grip, try letting your pinky make a roll on 1st string from 12th down to 10th fret, while holding the grip and playing a steady rhythm.

Oh - do you maybe now get my point about a relaxed grip plus a possibility for adding f.ex. an inside scale? Only by using your otherwise lazy thumb! LOL!

Polle

Posted - 11/05/2009 :  11:40:40        

Polle:

Using the thumb to fret strings it total heresy (grin) But we've been there before ;-)

Thanks,
Mark

If there are no dogs in heaven then when I die I want to go where they went...

Will Rogers

Posted - 11/07/2009 :  05:41:26    

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Originally posted by Dogface

Using the thumb to fret strings it total heresy (grin) But we've been there before ;-)

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Edited by - Mirek Patek on 11/07/2009 06:03:41

Posted - 11/07/2009 :  05:56:48      

Django used his thumb.

Posted - 11/07/2009 :  08:48:09        

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Originally posted by NYCJazz

Django used his thumb.

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Posted - 11/07/2009 :  09:50:30      

Mark,

Believe it or not - but some BHO members plus many domestic players have asked me about this fantastic and extremely usable playing style.

That´s why I´ll put up a "chart" for it - only I had to know how to number the fingers used - for most people on a global basis to understand.

I think, that I´ll go for the idiotic T-1-2-3-4 numbering - otherwise I forsee a WW III coming closer. LOL!

Regards

Polle

Posted - 11/07/2009 :  17:00:18      

"Off with his thumb", cried the King!

Beezaboy

Posted - 11/08/2009 :  02:10:15      

Roman Emperors did for sure use their thumb with great effect.

Polle

Posted - 11/08/2009 :  05:30:23        

Chuck Norris used his thumb unwisely in the Coliseum, in Way Of The Dragon

Posted - 11/08/2009 :  05:45:20    

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Originally posted by Dogface

Django didn't have much to work with after his train accident !

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Posted - 11/08/2009 :  10:18:20        

Mirek,
OK...I stand corrected. Just saying what I had heard from a banjo instructor and real jazz historian back in the '70's. The point remains the same, however. Django didn't have much of a choice on how to fret strings since he lost fingers in the accident.... A distinction without a difference in my mind.

Thanks,
Mark

If there are no dogs in heaven then when I die I want to go where they went...

Will Rogers