Tremolo
At this point I would like to introduce one last technique known as tremolo. Tremolo is extremely rapid picking on either a single note, double-stop or chord. Develop it by playing sixteenth notes on one note and gradually increase the picking speed.
Here are some examples of tremolo. Tremolo is indicated by the symbol above the tab.
The next example is written in 12/8 time.
Along with vibrato and the trill, tremolo is one of the few techniques available for sustaining a note on the guitar. Go back through some of the earlier licks and solos in this book and find other places you think tremolo might sound good.
The following two slow Blues licks are in 12/8 time. Each lick works over a different part of the 12 Bar Blues progression.
Class Sessions
1- Developing a Theme
2- Moving Licks
3- Grace Notes
4- Set Rhythms
5- More Set Rhythms
6- Two Bar Rhythms
7- Ties
8- Across the Bar
9- Triplets
10- Triplet Set Rhythms
11- Sliding Scales
12- Major Pentatonic - Other Forms
13- Chords and Arpeggios
14- Major Pentatonic Scales
15- LESSON TWENTY TWO
16- 12 Bar Arpeggio Riff
17- Arpeggio Solo
18- Sixteenth Notes
19- Set Rhythms With Sixteenths
20- The C Form
21- INTRODUCTION
22- Slow Blues Solo
23- Tremolo
24- The Blues Scale
25- Blues Licks
26- Blues Solo
27- Higher Up
28- The Trill
29- The D Form
30- LESSON THIRTY ONE
31- The Rake
32- Twelve-Eight Time
33- The A Form
34- LESSON THIRTY THREE
35- The G Form
36- Combining Major and Minor
37- Rhythm Notation
38- Common Picking Directions
39- Adding the Minor Third
40- Summary of Scales
41- Chords
42- A New Solo
43- Note Values
44- G Form Solo
45- A Form Solo
46- C Form Solo
47- Diagrams
48- Arpeggios
49- Dotted Notes
50- Combining Forms
51- Tablature
52- The Shuffle
53- Tablature Symbols