Re: I don't like the sound of tremolo.
The discussion on the distinction between types of tremolo playing made me suddenly remember when I invited my cousin, who has thrown herself into classical guitar, to come to my mandolin lesson and play with my teacher and me. We were playing something baroque or something with a sustained note that we were messing around with and tremolo-ing to draw it out (yes, I know, tremolo isn't the right style for baroque in general) and she was playing some sort of melody and she stopped and asked how many strokes we were giving each measure. both my teacher and I were mostly just shimmering the note and the two of us were building a wall of sound -- she was expecting tremolo to be our two picks moving as one in a measured and distinct number of notes per beat. It made me wonder if that sort of tremolo was a convention that I had ignored in simply stretching to fill three measures of whole notes. I don't remember tremolo being that precise even playing Italian music during my attendance at Carlo Aonzo's mandolin workshops when we had a whole room doing Callace or Munier. Of course, my cousin came from a family filled with engineers, and maybe it was just her preference for definition...
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