glauber
Aug-07-2005, 10:25pm
I was listening again to Neil Gladd's CD (the owner of the online mandobabes store (http://www.cafepress.com/neilgladd)) and over and over again i'm really impressed with his trills. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
I remember reading a Brazilian choro site about mandolin technique, and it had only one sentence about trills: it said "they require perfect coordination between left and right hand". Yeah, no kidding!
How does one achieve this perfect coordination? I assume the usual way? practice slow? Are there any tricks for learning how to trill?
(I have a CD of Chris Thile playing a coffeehouse in 2000, i think, where he tries to do a guitar-type trill, with pull-offs and hammer-ons, flubs, stops and says "trills are completely unacceptable on the mandolin!") http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
g
I remember reading a Brazilian choro site about mandolin technique, and it had only one sentence about trills: it said "they require perfect coordination between left and right hand". Yeah, no kidding!
How does one achieve this perfect coordination? I assume the usual way? practice slow? Are there any tricks for learning how to trill?
(I have a CD of Chris Thile playing a coffeehouse in 2000, i think, where he tries to do a guitar-type trill, with pull-offs and hammer-ons, flubs, stops and says "trills are completely unacceptable on the mandolin!") http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
g