Buckley 1868

[Tim Twiss]

I think tonight I deciphered the mysterious Lon Morris's Jig. I was almost going to omit it from the collection, but I kept trying. I believe the composer's intent was to create something simple using an alternate tuning. ( he tunes the thumb string to D# and the 4th to B. On top of that where the upward stem is not always an indicator of an actual E or D#, the entire structure of the phrasing in the second half was crazy. I took a few liberties with what I thought was his intent. The result finally makes sense. I'll post it with the tab tomorrow. Anybody ever waded through that muck before?

[Tim Twiss]

Try this:

[Paul Draper]

Thank you, I will!

[Tim Twiss]

Having never really looked at the front of the Buckley 1868 ( the Brown University librarian said it was a repeat of the 1860 ) I found a few things. It uses the basic Rice instruction for the execution of Strikes etc. Then it briefly addresses guitar stye. You have to look hard, because it goes  by fast. It illustrates a system of the right hand fingering.....x=thumb      one dot is 1st finger, 2 dots is the second finger, and three dots is the third. This parallels Classical guitar technique. It only shows one example of that, but clearly by the choice it implies that songs of the rolling arpeggios in the book are to be played in this manner. It was a great find. I will certainly include this when I finally come forth with the book.

[Tim Twiss]

It has been a great surprise to have played, scrutinized, and studied this work with no knowledge of the instructional material in the front, and have the music alone to support the conclusions I came up with..

Those being.....the Rice material for Stroke technique remains strongly represented. And, the fingerstyle technique is similar to the Classical Guitar style of the the time.