• I am playing lying down. I am able to sit and play but it is not comfortable. Lying down does effect the angle of the instrument and so the sound. But it is a compromise I make for my back. When I perform in public I sit, stand, or walk. I most enjoy walking and playing. But that only works for pieces I have memorized.
• The first four recordings were made before I purchased a decent mic. So the sound improves after these due to that change. (Before that it is the mic built into the webcam)
• When not playing from memory, I am playing from facsimilies of original tab. The exception to this is when I play pieces by A'lonso Mudarra in a pratice session with other composers. Then I play from copies of his music transcribed from his Italian tablature into French tablature. While I do work from facsimiles of his tab, being dyslexic I have trouble going back and forth between Italian tab and French tab. Italian tab reverses the order of the strings from how they are represented in French tab and switching between them causes me some confusion. Since the vast majority of music for four course guitar is in French tab, I stick with that.
• I have posted for free download my cleaned up versions of the tablature for all the Morlaye and Le Roy books on this page: Renaissance Guitar Music
• Info on the guitar I am playing is on the page: Renaissance Guitar
• I am tunned to A4=432Hz
• You will notice the recordings are done with an edge detection filter. I do this to highlight my hands without going down the video editing rabbit hole.

1. Four Renaissance guitar (aka four course guitar) pieces from memory.
2. 0:00 Morlaye Le Premier Livre… Tablature de Guiterne, (1551) 23v Buffons
3. 1:34 LeRoy Tiers Livre de Tabvlatvre de Gviterre, (1552) 21r Branfle de Champaigne
4. 2:22 LeRoy Tiers Livre de Tabvlatvre de Gviterre, (1552) 22r Pimontoyfe
5. 3:25 Morlaye Le Second Livre… Tablature de Guiterne, (1553) 27v Hornepipe d'Angleterre.

Morlaye, Le Premier Livre… Tablature de Guiterne (1551) page 26r Bransle

A pavanne from today's practice. This one is in Morlaye book 2 and starts on page 14 verso.

Morlaye book two for guitar, pgs 15v-16r Gaillarde.

Le Roy book 3, 15v-16r Le Pied de Cheval, an almande

Leroy 3 17r-v Bransle Simple and its plus diminue.

First time trying my used (but new to me) mic. I think is sounds a lot better than the older recordings.

A pavane from Morlaye's first book of guitar tab published in 1552.