right hand practice

[DENNY7P]

THANKS EVERYBODY-For all the good advice and where to go for some information.I don't know what i would do without everybody on forum

[Nox]

Hello guys, i preferred to bump up this thread instead to open a new one.
I'm learning mandolin and now i'm studing on the C. Munier, sadly it' very hard and doesn't explain very well tremolo tecnique.
Now just today i have ordered from amazon the "The Complete Mandolinist" of Marilynn Mair but reading this thread i realized that she teach you to hit only one string on the upstroke when practicing the tremolo and i want learn to hit both the strings on the upstroke and downstroke.
At first i was tempted for the S. Ranieri Method, but is an old book and they ask 27€ + shipping fee.
Does anyone here thinks that i should have ordered another book? I can't cancel the order
I'm intersted to play classic music. should i have take another book, or this is fine and maybe i can take in future another book?

[Christian Flanagan]

I had a heck of a time getting consistent tremelo when I was using the Fender heavy picks. I would have it going and then kind of get stuck on a downstroke.

Using a BC pick has made a night and day difference with the tremelo. The pick glides over the strings and you get a nice variety of tone with varying the angle. In general, my right hand technique has improved a lot since getting a BC.

The pick seems to be one key to the technique. I'm a beginner. I started out with a very thin/flexible pick. It just seemed a little easier to get a clean note but tremelo was nearly impossible. I tried turning the pick at an angle and that seemed to help, but the sound suffered. I'd bought a couple of heavier picks with a more blunt point. Viola. I need to experiment more. Maybe that's the lesson. There's hundreds of variations on technique and tools. Gotta find that one that works for me.

[MandoSquirrel]

Hello guys, i preferred to bump up this thread instead to open a new one.
I'm learning mandolin and now i'm studing on the C. Munier, sadly it' very hard and doesn't explain very well tremolo tecnique.
Now just today i have ordered from amazon the "The Complete Mandolinist" of Marilynn Mair but reading this thread i realized that she teach you to hit only one string on the upstroke when practicing the tremolo and i want learn to hit both the strings on the upstroke and downstroke.
At first i was tempted for the S. Ranieri Method, but is an old book and they ask 27€ + shipping fee.
Does anyone here thinks that i should have ordered another book? I can't cancel the order
I'm intersted to play classic music. should i have take another book, or this is fine and maybe i can take in future another book?

I think you'll find "The Complete Mandolinist" by Marilynn Mair a very workable book; you can still hit both strings if you want, she won't slap your fingers. She uses a lot of music from methods of similar vintage to the Munier, with her own text, & it looks like a good method book to me. I think you can work with just this one book for quite some time.

[Tobin]

No, no, no. Tremolo is the SOUL of the mandolin. Don't avoid the soul.

That statement was profound. I had never really thought of it in those terms, but it's a very elegant way of putting it.

It's funny; when my wife and I are in the car and I'm playing random mandolin music on the CD player, she makes sure to comment when she hears them do a tremolo: "I don't like that. It's too show-offy." My comment to her is usually, "Well, that's what mandolins do. It's the traditional mandolin style." But now I have a better way to phrase it to her. It's the soul of the mandolin.

Profound, Phil. Thank you.

*makes mental note to spend more time working on tremolo*

[MandoSquirrel]

I got a lot of right hand benefit(as well as left) from Evan Marshall's Duo Style book; polished my 30 plus year old getting by tremolo into a tremolo to enjoy, improved my triplets, really the whole right hand.