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Hi, guys. I have problem with tremolo. I can't play a fast group a notes in front to accord (example on 24.58 ) . I feel "mental block". But i can play usual tremolo. I play 4 years on flamenco guitar. Perhaps not yet time?
Ah well, there was a fantastic passion there, in my case anyway. I discovered flamenco very early on. It grips you in a way that you can't get away - Paco Pena
Hm. I wonder what's blocking you, especially if you can already play a regular tremolo. I mean it's not all that different, except instead of instead of playing just one base note with the thumb you play the entire chord with it. Are you practicing it slow? Or perhaps you're used to starting with the thumb instead of i? If that's it maybe you could adapt one of your tremolo exercices in a way that you have separate iamip patterns, that way you can get used to attack with i instead of p (i.e. instead of playing the whole thing through and through piami-piami etc., do iamip-pause a beat-iamip, etc. Another option could be to a tremolo exercice, but forget about having a regular quintuplet pattern, instead, just make sure the thumb falls on the beat and try to fit all of the iami as close to it right before (should get you used to doing a more "explosive" tremolo and used to attacking with i).
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In Del Monte's video you can see some things well, others perhaps not so well. Note that his right wrist curves toward the bridge rather than being fairly straight. This is to keep both the knuckles and the finger tips in a line parallel to the string, the finger tips near it. Paco and others achieve the same objective by keeping the wrist fairly straight and elevating the elbow.
Either way, more of the side of the the thumb is presented to the strings rather than the tip. i believe Ricardo once said that he plays tremolo on a callus on the side of the the thumb rather than on the nail. I don't go quite that far, but I move a good ways in that direction.
Of course, when playing the i-a-m-i notes as a "pickup" to a chord strummed with the thumb, the thumb is firmly planted on a lower string while the fingers are playing the pickup.
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