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07-20-2004, 12:58 PM
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Tremelo Picking...
I learned Laurence Jubers song, "Still Warm" yesterday, all the way up to the part where he starts doing his tremelo picking... I havn't the slightest idea how to get my fingers up to that speed.
Do any of you have suggestions in mastery of this technique? I play with nails (about a mm longer than the top of my finger when viewing the nail from the palm side). Are there excercises that you know of that will help? Thanks, Devon
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07-20-2004, 01:11 PM
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are you talking about the classical tremelo technique? p - a - m - i?
if so, my teacher had an exercise that I used to help smooth the tremelo out. I would count to 5 starting on the p stroke. Next time around 1 is on the a stroke, next time after that it's on the m stroke, etc. as with anything, start out slow and work up to speed.
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07-20-2004, 01:21 PM
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Yes, exactly what I am talking about. In "Still Warm" LJ is playing a note on one of the other 5 strings and then hitting the high E (tuned down to D for DADGAD) 3, 32nd or 3, 64th notes. DOes that make sense?
I will have to post a link to the song later and perhaps a tab. Was that excercise just what you described in your post? If not, could you let me in on it  I understand to start slow, but man this is difficult! I feel like having nails is almost making it harder. Thanks, Devon
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07-20-2004, 01:23 PM
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Remember that the a and m fingers share a tendon and work together. When the i finger is moving to strike the string, the a and m are both moving away from the string (and vice-versa).
You really have to practice tremelo slowly, with a metronome, in order to get it working smoothly. You won't get that singing sustained note sound until you hit around 140 bpm. A good exercise is to use just a first position A minor chord, use the p to sound the A,D,G and B strings and a,m,i on the open high E. That way you don't have to worry about anything but the RH movements until you've got it down.
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07-20-2004, 01:29 PM
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There's a pretty good video that details tremelo technique at:
http://www.stringdancer.com/cgi-bin/...t=murdick&id=1 It's a hefty download, about 28 megs, but it's well done and shows the necessary motions done nice and slow.
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07-20-2004, 01:50 PM
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I'll begin sitting down with my metronome and start working with that Am excercise you suggested.
I tryed to download from that site, but it was members only... Guess I'll have to sign up Thanks for the info, Devon
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