Tremolo question

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metalhead

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Joined: Apr. 15 2023

Tremolo question

Recently started practicing tremolo however my fingers were muting it. Since I play arpeggios with sequential plants, when I was playing the tremolo, the fingers were sequentially planting and muting the sound.

For eg, if the a played, then the m immediately planted and muted.

Is this something you get through with practice. But I was wondering if I develop independence for tremolo would it not affect the sequential plants for the arpeggios?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 11 2025 7:47:29

Ricardo

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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC

RE: Tremolo question (in reply to metalhead)

we would need to hear both, but basically tremolo IS an arpegio technique wise, it is just that it is done on one string so your timing errors are more obvious. You need to go slow at first...however once you get the mechanics more or less clean on a simple open string exercise or something, you need to approach the actual falseta in this manner:

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 11 2025 17:10:12