{"id":491,"date":"2018-01-25T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/?p=491"},"modified":"2018-01-25T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:22:21","slug":"how-to-deal-with-mi-at-the-1st-fret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/how-to-deal-with-mi-at-the-1st-fret\/","title":{"rendered":"How to deal with mi at the 1st fret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re playing a piece in G Major on a lute in G, you usually only need <em>mis<\/em> at the 1st fret. A good example of this would be &#8220;John Come Kiss Me Now&#8221; from the ML Lute Book. In such cases, to avoid having to use a tastino on the 4th and 5th courses you might want to slide your 1st fret down to the <em>mi<\/em> position, but it&#8217;s going to be too loose to be effective. I&#8217;ve found that if\u00a0I tape the 1st fret into place on the back of the neck, it&#8217;s usually snug enough. I keep a length of scotch tape stuck to the back of the pegbox so that when I need the 1st fret only as a <em>mi<\/em> when I&#8217;m playing in a context in which there are no instances where I need a <em>mi<\/em> at a predominantly <em>fa<\/em> 1st fret, such as when you&#8217;re in G Minoir, it takes me just a second to tape it into place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re playing a piece in G Major on a lute in G, you usually only need mis at the 1st fret. A good example of this would be &#8220;John Come Kiss Me Now&#8221; from the ML Lute Book. In such cases, to avoid having to use a tastino on the 4th and 5th courses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.fiu.edu\/~dolatad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}