Tremolo

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SilverShark

Posts: 15
Joined: Aug. 26 2008

Tremolo

I love this sound and style of Flamenco, but the book I'm using to teach myself doesn't have any lessons on it, which is fine. But I'm looking to teach this to myself. Any recommendations?

Thank you.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 22 2008 4:15:08

Jan Willem

Posts: 274
Joined: Feb. 21 2007
From: Belgium Halle

RE: Tremolo (in reply to SilverShark)

It's a technique, not a style.

Yes: Buy Gerardo nunez's encuentro. 70€ and all your questions about guitar technique will be answered :-).

JW

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 22 2008 4:47:41

Stu

Posts: 2879
Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England

RE: Tremolo (in reply to Jan Willem)

How little do you know??

four stroke flamenco tremolo goes like this....

All the zeros are played I A M I and the basses are played with your thumb on the beat.

-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0------0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----
-------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------1--------------
--------------------------------2----------------------------
----------------2--------------------------------------------
---0---------------------------------------------------------
P P P P
1 2 3 4

(EDIT) for some reason i cant get the fingering to stay where i wrote it, it puts it all on the right when i post it!!!

say if that doesn't make sense!!

This video shows how you do it but he uses Pmami, instead of Piami.

Stu

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 22 2008 5:29:53

SilverShark

Posts: 15
Joined: Aug. 26 2008

RE: Tremolo (in reply to Stu)

Hmm...I see. Maybe I can teach myself off of this! Thank you.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 22 2008 18:26:00

Exitao

Posts: 907
Joined: Mar. 13 2006
From: Vancouver, Canada

RE: Tremolo (in reply to Stu)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Stu

(EDIT) for some reason i cant get the fingering to stay where i wrote it, it puts it all on the right when i post it!!!

Try pasting it in code tags. It should display like a quote, but without changing the text formatting or actually using any code inside the tags, if it doesn't truncate the box.


-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0------0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----
-------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------1--------------
--------------------------------2----------------------------
----------------2--------------------------------------------
---0---------------------------------------------------------
    P              P                  P                P
    1              2                  3                4

edit: doesn't work perfect either... There are html tags for code and preformated text, but I don't know what the PHPBB code is for preformatted text...

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 23 2008 19:00:56

SilverShark

Posts: 15
Joined: Aug. 26 2008

RE: Tremolo (in reply to SilverShark)

I'm having a little trouble getting this down but more or less I can see the progress. My only question (as of now) is this: I am ok with tremolo on the high E string, but when I try to do this on the B string I have a hard time not hitting the higher string. Maybe I'm just not accurate enough yet..?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 25 2008 7:41:33

koella

Posts: 2194
Joined: Sep. 10 2005
From: holland

RE: Tremolo (in reply to SilverShark)

I had the same problem.
It's gone now and it will never come back.
It's difficult to explain this by words but I'll give it a try.

Try to experiment with the height of your righthand wrist. raise your wrist till the 6th string and try to act like you were doing reststrokes or like you want to try to pull up the b-string . More like brushing the strings then picking them.

And of course look in a mirror to be sure if your ami fingers are in an exact straight line with the strings.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 25 2008 12:18:28