Piano trills on guitar

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devilhand

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Piano trills on guitar

As I understand trills are usually played on piano. It's a piano technique.
On guitar trills sound lame to me since we use only the left hand. I believe we can get a decent result if we use both hands.
Any suggestions on how to get a nice long trill on guitar? For example 0:26-0:33.

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Grisha

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RE: Piano trills on guitar (in reply to devilhand)

Cross-string trills that achieve similar effect on guitar are usually done with pmiapmia... or similar four finger right hand sequence. I use paim fingering myself. The problem is that your right hand cannot really pluck anything else while you are employing this technique.

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devilhand

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RE: Piano trills on guitar (in reply to Grisha)

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Cross-string trills that achieve similar effect on guitar are usually done with pmiapmia... or similar four finger right hand sequence. I use paim fingering myself.

4 finger paim is a 4 note trill? I mean 4 different notes. I can imagine this will sound more interesting.

In my example above if I read the score correctly, it's a 2 note trill B C B C B C....
It would be i & m free stroke on two adjacent strings?

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hamia

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RE: Piano trills on guitar (in reply to devilhand)

I do like a bit of Hayden from time to time. Refined and understated. How I aspire to be.

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AndresK

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RE: Piano trills on guitar (in reply to devilhand)

Grisha means this

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Ricardo

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RE: Piano trills on guitar (in reply to devilhand)

not terribly interested in this technique or device myself, however, I can imagine a quick cheating version could use iami P, which most flamenco players have down very quick already.

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