You will going to learn the very basic guitar tremolo skills that you must learn as a guitar player. The fingers involving in the guitar string plugging are called I, A, M… And you will know what it is in this video. Hope you will benefit from it.
Classical Guitar Lesson #5: Tremolo
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The tremelo I have used is thumb and three fingers. I would say that the key to a good tremelo is not necesarily speed but being rock solid even. Try practicing with the strings damped so you get a percussive sound. Try moving the one beat to correspond to different fingers-basically you are looking to get to the point where it sounds like a steady click. Then go for speed. Another exercise is to play all the notes on one string. Find a recording of Recuerdos de la Alhambra-it is sort of the tremelo chestnut of the classical guitar world, everyone has recorded it. The beauty isn’t the speed, but how the melody shifts against a steady tremelo.
Tremolo is produced using the Index, middle and ring finger, except the sequence is the reverse i.e. ring, middle and index.
The thumb usually plays the bass notes in sequence to the tremolo…sometimes the thumb plays the lead line, but many times the tremolo is the actual lead line.
One of the most famous tunes that uses tremolo is Receurdos d’Alhahambra by Terrega.
Chet Atkins, Liona Boyd and Lenny Breau are also players that use it extensively.
The hard part of mastering the technique are the following:
Attaining smoothness and evenness of the tremolo.
Switching strings…i.e the b to e string.
Moving chords and keeping the tremolo constant.
The basic technique is bacially triplets played extremely fast and smooth.