Thanks for the response!The (0) means a couple of things...
The 0, obviously, means it's an open string... the parens around it mean that it's barely audible, so I might be wrong.
However, in this case, I know myself. It's one of those things where, in the middle of playing a line, I pulled my finger off the string, and the open string rang, but it goes by so fast that it really doesn't matter.
If you were trying to decide how to approach it, I'd actually approach it as a rest, more than trying to play it specifically unless, for you, that open string gives you time to get to the next thing.
Thanks for the response and yeah I agree about the "at some point" point. I'm still just barely hanging on and playing with Griff so not there yest as far as making it my own. It's a challenge for sure!That kind of threw me too when I first saw it.
Paleo's solution works fine.
I wound up inventing my own slightly different approach to it. Being basically lazy, I took an easier way out.
Where Griff's notation goes: (starting on the second string) 10 7 (third string) 10 (0) 10 9
instead I play (second string) 10 7 (third string) 10 9 7
So I'm playing only 3 notes where he indicates 4, but this falls under the finger extremely easy and maintains the triplet feel of the phrase, so it's easy to play fast at constant tempo. At this speed, the notes are flying by so quickly anyway, that it matters little IMO.
If you wind up ending the phrase by hitting the first note of measure 34 on time, you're golden IMO.
I have found over time, that other permutations of the original have crept into various phrases. I guess that is where one's individual style starts to develop or show up. At some point, you start to stray away from being a slave to the "as written" and start to play the "as I feel it".
Better or worse? Does it matter? I don't think so.