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Summary: Learn how to achieve a tremelo effect in your classical guitar playing in this free video clip on how to play the classical guitar.
Chris Harold King has been playing classical guitar for over 10 years. He is currently pursuing an advanced degree in music theory and teaches lessons to students of all ages. In...read more
" Another advance technique that you’ll see in a lot of really really pretty music is a Tremelo effect. What I’m going to do here with my left hand for the example is I’m just going to finger D on the B string and a fifth an A on the E string. What I’m going to do down here on my right hand is be playing the melody with my P and the other the E string I’m going to be playing with I, M and A one after another like so. I, M, A, I, M, A proceeded by the melody with the P finger. So it will go like this. What happens is once you get this down; make every note sound nice and even, very very beautiful sounding you can speed it up a little bit and it creates a very nice effect. So just slowly speed it up a little bit; it creates a very nice effect that people can use and it takes a little while to learn but it is something you can pick up on pretty easy and impress some people."
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hakus said
on 9/21/2009 Would you please tell me which piece he is playing in the video, it is beautiful and I also would like to play it...Many thanks...
mdzk said
on 8/2/2008 I cant' believe he's an "expert" he's giving untrue technique path... The tremolo in classical guitar IS ONLY thumb as comping ,a,m,i on a single string; listen to an european guitar graduated not this one...... Regondi invented it then it was used widely by Barrios, Castel nuovo tedesco and many others '900 classical guitar composers... In flamenco there are some variations like i,a,m,i or thumb, i, a,m,i on a single string for melodies.
skai said
on 8/2/2008 I second mdzk. By established classical guitar technique, it's actually an apalling technical error. The best video would have to be the one where he mentions that serious students should get an experienced classical guitar teacher. No offence at all, but playing classical guitar for 10 years doesn't necessarily make someone a well-taught classical guitarist. The other videos do have some useful and correct knowledge but this is simply disappointing.
trascen said
on 8/2/2008 I presume the reason that he doesn't play any tremolo in this vid, apart from a really bad quiet failure of an attempt at the end, is that he can't. probably because he doesn't know how - some people can play it that way, but most play ami. he obviously can't do either. this video is pathetic, it would waste people's time except nobody would take it seriously since his tremolo demonstration demonstrates nothing except an inability to play the guitar.