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gounaro

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From: Athens, Hellas

Tremolo

I intend practicing at tremolo... Anyone has simple exercises for a beginner like me?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 16 2011 13:26:22

El Kiko

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From: The South Ireland

RE: Tremolo (in reply to gounaro)

es a little thing that may be useful to get your hand into position .
It's basically a B7 kind of shape that you just move up and down the fret board...play each bit twice , or just mess around with it .

|-7-7-7-7-----7-7-7-7------7-7-7-7-------7-7-7-7---
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------7--------------
|---------------------------6------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|----------0-----------------------------------------------

|---5-5-5-5-----5-5-5-5-----5-5-5-5-----
|----------------------------------------------
|----------------------------5----------------
|--------------4------------------------------
|-5-------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------

|----3-3-3-3------3-3-3-3-----3-3-3-3-----
|---------------------------------------------
|------------------------------3---------------
|----------------2------------------------------
|--3-------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------

|-----2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2--
|--------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------2-------------
|-----------------1-------------------------
|--2----------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 16 2011 14:58:50

gounaro

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to El Kiko)

The right hand in position 90o angle? And then i,m,a and backwards?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 16 2011 15:00:16

El Kiko

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to gounaro)

starts.. i,m,a,i, P.. i,m,a,i, P........etc...

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 16 2011 15:28:54

gounaro

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to El Kiko)

Starting right away.... Thanks a lot!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 16 2011 15:42:23

Elie

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to gounaro)

maybe you find this helpful : http://www.pooretom.com/learningtremolo1.html

here is a simple exercise from Gerardo :

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 16 2011 19:25:49

machopicasso

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to gounaro)

I'd strongly recommend practicing tremolo on all six strings. The reason why is that it's easy to develop a decent tremolo technique for the 1st (high E) string which does not transfer to the other strings. When playing tremolo on the 1st string, there's no other strings to hit. That changes as soon as you try to play tremolo on anyone of the remaining five strings.

A friend of mine is a recent student of Manuel Barrueco. To develop consistency of volume and tone in one's tremolo, he recommended doing p-a-m-i on one string. I'd recommend doing that on each of the six strings.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 17 2011 9:25:59

gounaro

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to machopicasso)

Thanks guys for your tips.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 17 2011 11:07:17

El Kiko

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to machopicasso)

quote:

I'd strongly recommend practicing tremolo on all six strings

i think we all know that but the question was

quote:

. Anyone has simple exercises for a beginner like me?

Therefore as a beginner you would start on the E and move to the B and G as you develop, depending on the player .. However I'm not sure how much of a beginner gounaro is., He's probably better than me .
I have many tremolo excercises as I struggle with it myself ,( trying to get that flamenco sound) but I think the first thing is getting comfortable with the sound you get , as it is a real pain to re-learn something you have been doing wrong for a while , that is the best advice I can give is to try and get it right first time , then the only thing wrong is that it will be too slow ... thats OK ......

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 17 2011 18:53:50

gounaro

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RE: Tremolo (in reply to El Kiko)

quote:

Therefore as a beginner you would start on the E and move to the B and G as you develop, depending on the player .. However I'm not sure how much of a beginner gounaro is., He's probably better than me .

I'm a beginner - intermediate. In tremolo i'm a totally beginner. But i suppose that everybody is better than me!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 17 2011 19:11:06