The Secret To A Great Tremolo

The classical guitar tremolo is such a uniquely beautiful technique. Today I'm giving you the only tremolo lesson and exercises you need to develop a great tremolo. If you enjoyed the video, hit that "Like" button to help more people see it!

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[jordanvargas]

I want to be able to play Recuerdos de la Alhambra

[parsataherkhani]

I loved the tremolo in your arragment of ff7 and Alhambra of course

[marciodecarvalho]

"Recuerdos de al Alhambra"... There is nothing more beautyful in the guitar world. I am working to play this opus someday. Even take my whole life. Thank you, great vídeo!

[paulorosolen]

Thanks a lot! I was always "afraid" of this technique, now I really feel like I can learn it! Of course, after a lot of work and time, but we'll get there haha! Keep up the great work, man! Thanks again

[aaaaaaaaabaaaaaaaaa]

Probably my favourite tremolo is in Kazuhito Yamashita's transcription of Dvork's 9th symphony where he does a single-finger tremolo with the i finger by moving it up and down, while simultaneously using the thumb to play the base line AND alternating the m and a fingers to play a melody on the higher strings. It's almost inhuman.

[robertcronin]

Great video! I'm a proficient folk/blues fingerstyle guitarist and have recently decided to step up my fingerstyle game and learn tremolo technique but I had no idea how *difficult* it is especially on a steel string acoustic, lol...your video was very enlightening and I'm glad I found your channel - I never considered that my pinky might be stiff or tense - great tip!

[ghassenbenabdallah]

Me as beginner skipping intermediate and going directly for boss

[eddio]

im imprementing the pinky in the tremolo intead of just leavin it there useless.
I wonder why no body uses the pinky much? or at all

[RR-vwwr]

Sometimes it bothers me that I heard tremolo and really liked it and wanted to learn it. Like why can't I want to learn easy things. I literally make my life difficult for no reason.

[nikipalla]

AERITH’s theme 😭😭😭 I had gotten super far with learning the song but the tremolo wrecked me. Still really determined to learn tho :)

[DvilfMin]

Queens of the stone age sent me in a direction, Brandon Acker (?) pushed me harder... and now I’m addicted to classical guitar/Spanish flamenco

Thank you for the lesson, my silver lining to this year will be this damn tremolo

[mootal]

As we staccato/cutoff a by m, then m by i...How to cutoff the last i finger ?

[mhd_hmouda]

Is it possible to do tremelo with flesh (without growing nails) have you ever seen a player do it? I've always been a flesh player and I never had problems, except for the tremelo

[ewarioevan]

Roses are red
Snails are slow,
Do I need long nails
To make a good tremolo?

[erictress]

My favorite tremolo piece is the malaguena, would love to see you play it

[joeyfigueroa]

Can't be the only one here because of Recuerdos De Alhambra.

[ShivLok_art]

Willing to watch you getting 1M subscribers
Love from India

[xXinsaneboyXx]

In spanish the H is silent. Recuerdos del Al'h'ambra.

[Andri]

The tremolo part in Asturias always killed me. Thank you, Maestro! :)

[lan]

Thank god! You are the first one talks about relax the pinkie which happens to my problem. I’ll try the other three methods you suggested and hope they work. Thank you so much!