Bach Chorale 2/371
Good string players can leap up and down an octave on the same string and do it musically. In this chorale, there are a couple octave leaps that proved challenging. Again, I’m limiting myself to one string for each of the four parts. A teacher remarked that he has his string players play phrases on one string to preserve the musical line and because the distance between notes is felt differently than if you moved the phrase across strings. The voice executes phrases in a similar way, since you can’t leap an octave without putting in a little effort. On guitar, you don’t have to change position to play octaves, which is nice, but I’m after something different here.
A friend noted that each string is like it’s own instrument. On a piano, every note is laid out and easy to find, whereas on guitar, the same note can be played on several strings on different frets, yielding different timbres.
Know every note on every fret, without having to reference familiar strings like E, A, or D. I don’t recall the notes on strings G and D as quickly because I’ve come to rely on patterns for the most part. Site reading is helping.
Hey, thanks for listening.
Keep them coming. Beautiful, melodic, peaceful.