"But playing the A and C simultaneously is impossible"

"That makes perfect sense actually"

"I'm not sure I understand. How can you play the C with your fourth finger?"

"Barring with the first finger and the second finger simultaneously"

"This is true as well. There's a really weird cord that he puts in there an inversion of a D minor where the F is in the bass while double barring so I think Emile just had large hands"

"You could probably pluck it with the thumb of the left hand if you had a long enough thumb. I would hold it down with the finger of the right hand but that's just because I'm weird and love experimenting."

"Either that or hold down the F with the right hand and pluck with the thumb."

"I don't think it's possible to hold the F. I would interpret it as it being an implication rather than an actual held note. Much like Beethoven notating his piano sonatas with fo fp. That effect is not possible on a piano, but he's…"

"Frankly, I'm not sure what you are after Austin.  There will not be any etude or exercise that will magically flip the switch on any problem you are trying to correct.  Nor will any be a shortcut to proficiently.  Really, you…"

"Take the Morley or Bradbury book, start with the last exercise and corresponding tunes and then work your way through to the first exercise. It may prove to be challenging enough for you, for a while."

"You could make the basic scale exercise more interesting or, perhaps more importantly, more beneficial by varying the rhythm, focusing on tone or dynamics, missing out every other note, up 3 notes back down 2. I am sure there are others who can chip…"

"I noticed that as well. The bass string is very important to the overall tone."

"Fair enough. I looked at Parke Hunter's scale exercises, they are good for teaching the standard scales, but they're just a representation of the scale rather than interesting pieces in their own right. Has anyone done a melody made of…"

"I just feel like you are leaping to conclusions before you have worked through all that is available.  Sort of like when you told us all that you were going to work out a system of using 5 fingers which would be better than anything we do."

"I just feel like they could be more than just a run-up the scale and then back down. Douglas actually taught me a pretty good one for the left hand. What he calls triangle shapes up the neck. "

"Never mind I found them"