Rob Schumann: In this fifth segment, we will be looking at a right-hand pattern that's really borrowed from classical guitar music and its called tremolo and you will see this used mostly on nylon string guitars but there are some performers that use it on acoustic steel strings. Basically, it involves having the melody in the bass once again and doing the accompaniment in the treble part. So, we will work out of melody using the thumb on the bass strings and then with the treble note, this could be the root note of the chord most commonly but it calls to be the third or the fifth just as an accompaniment. What you will do with that accompaniment note is you will hit it three times the same note with your fingers. So, the third finger will hit it, the ring finger, then the middle finger and then the index finger. So, it basically look like this. Most commonly that is done with ring, middle, and index finger; although you will see some people do it with their index finger, middle finger and back to index.
As we speed that up in 16th notes, 1E end, 1E end, eventually it becomes all one reflex and actually sounds pretty cool when we put it with the melody. So, we could play D Minor chord and have that D note be our accompaniment note and add a melody that maybe starts with the D note, goes to an F to an A to a G, E, F, D, C, and then back to D. So, in that case combining that with the strumble effect, it becomes pretty cool. Now, this is a technique that you would really have to work with a metronome to get going and it takes people quite a long time to get it even. One thing that you have to watch out for is having a galloping feel with it where you kind of pull your fingers through too fast or a delayed effect and that's where your thumb will hit and the third finger won't quite get through.
So, the best thing you can do is practice it very slowly and very evenly and try to get it to where you can do it very smoothly and so there is nothing wrong with playing it rather slowly till your fingers really get to where they do it automatically. So, played at a reasonable speed, this melody would sound like this. Then you could certainly, once you get up to it, speed that up and work it towards nice flurry of 16th notes. So, I hope you have enjoyed these patterns and get a lot of used to them.
Pierre Bensusan: Hello, my name is Pierre Bensusan and I would like to play for you a composition of mine which I wrote several years ago, it's called 'Silent Passenger'. The next movement is going to be the A which is the first thing --
Just one little hit at here, those two notes are played by the some --
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