Hi,

My teacher told me to start practicing tremolo as it is a technique which takes sometime to perfect. I'm having a lot of difficulty as I find my fingers move too slow and it's hard to keep up to speed. Sometimes I work so hard at trying to keep my fingers moving quick enough I start speeding up!

At first, I started playing tremolo using free strokes but, after practicing it a while, I've start to change my right hand position slightly so my fingers just catch the strings very gently, almost as if they're stroking the string but still producing a sound. I find in playing tremolo this way I can move quicker. Should tremolo be played like this, or is this bad technique?

If anyone has any tips on tremolo it would really help (maybe I'm doing something wrong?).

Thanks in advance,
LG

Hi

With my username being tremolo, I feel that I must reply to your question.
Also, there don't seem to be that many guitarists on these forums.

To get a good tremolo, here are a few suggestions
- finger pattern almost always is pami
- nails cannot be too long
- always use free strokes
- concentrate on evenness rather than speed at first (an even slow tremolo is much better than an uneven uncontrolled fast tremolo).

Practice with Caracassi opus 60, etude 7 (the famous tremolo study)

Good luck, and tell me how you get on.

Thanks for your advice tremolo! I'll bare all your suggestions in mind and will look for the Carcassi piece you recommended. Baised on what you've said, at the moment I think I'm playing way too fast, so I'll slow down a focus on playing evenly.

This is a common question that every guitarist asks at some point..
The hard answer is that the only way to improve is a regimental practice regime. I don't want to kid you, it takes something that seems like forever to master. Have a good read from
http://www.douglasniedt.citymax.com/Master...oloRevised.html