Originally Posted by: hunter1801Well tremolo, as I know it from playing guitar, is when I pick pretty much as fast as I can. Its very rapid playing basically, right? But when mixing that in with a slow and steady picking, how could you describe that?

Edit: My music teacher is evil and doesn't speak plain English. Only ridiculously never used musical terms.


Also, this is one of the songs she performed. Any ideas on how to describe it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98gx42nAHQ

Your definition of a tremelo is both correct and wrong. A rock tremelo (I think blues also may hold the same definition) is as you have defined it. A classical or flamenco tremelo is actually played as a triplet.

If your question refers to his description, I believe what he is talking about looked more like this ---- roughly

111----111------111-------
---4-------4--------4------

So while this may be the worst drawing ever, basically the 1's are (well they could be any type of triplet but,) 16th note triplets and the 4's are 8th notes, or whatever.

Didn't see the video