Re: Tremolo Tuesdays-Let's work on our tremability!
Hello,
Thanks Crisscross for sharing this!
Very interesting.
I find your playing just delicate and sweat, very nice to ear.
And I wish I could play like this.
I will use your videos for practice with fun.
I have some issues with tremolo.
I can use unmeasure tremolos, but sometimes it drives me out out the beat or is unprecise.
Especially on musics with drums or percussions.
So I try to use measured tremolos but I have problems because some tempo dont seem to match with tremolos.
I'll try to explain how I manage with it:
As tremolo is a succession of D and u strokes, I focus only on D strokes.
I say that if I can play D-D-D-D- in one beat I can naturally play DuDuDuDu in the beat.
I've found that my max speed to play for D-D-D-D- (or DuDuDuDu) in one beat is 94 bpm.
I wont struggle to increase this, that's not the purpose.
Below 70 bpm, my DuDuDuDu doesn't sound like a tremolo, it's to slow.
So I can say I can play 1/32 notes** tremolo within 70 and 94 bpm.
So, without changing the speed, I can play the same within 140 and 188bpm.
I will just play 1/16 notes instead of 1/32 but my playing speed will be the same.
Ok, now I know that I can play tremolos within that two ranges of tempo.
But... what about within 94 and 140 bpm?
1/16 notes will be too slow and 1/32 notes too fast.
So I tried the same with triplets.
If I play DuDuDu in one beat I have a new range of tempo: 90 to 126 bpm.
This extends the range and nearly cover the gap.
It will work for swinged music.
But on a strong binar rythm, it is not very convenient to think triplets.
Alas, this is the only way I've founded.
I know some might say I could just don't care about measured tremolos and play it unmeasured and they should be right.
This works good in situations where tempo is not very marked and can move a little.
But when playing with a drummer or percs or even a drum machine, unmeasured things drive me a little out of the beat.
As an old bass player I can ear well when I'm out of the beat and can't stand it.
And if a tune goes 130 bpm I'm lost if I try tremolo.
I still don't know the answers to improve tremolos at any tempo.
And still have to practice a lot.
But at least my modest little research on tempos helped me to know what works and don't works for a given tempo. (and for me!)
May be it will help some others.
Thanks for reading and have a good day
(** Sorry, I don't know the english for ♪ ♫ etc... so I will say 1/16 or 1/32...)
My english is not perfect.
Nor my french anyway...
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