Hi,
As a classical pianist, I've generally felt there is no difference between
performing a tremolo with 3 or 4 lines below the chord, to me they both mean
play as fast a roll as you can, what is called an unmeasured tremolo. At least
in piano music, I think putting 3 lines below the chord is enough, you don't
see 4 lines very often.
If two lines are below a chord in for example a violin part in a symphony, I
believe that means repeating the chord in sixteenth notes only. This is called
a measured tremolo. Usually though in this situation you write out one measure
all in sixteenth notes to show the pattern and then subsequent measures use the
2 line tremolo as a shorthand.
I seem to remember for harp writing, if you want the harpist to create a soft
cloudy tremolo sound on a chord, you write the beautiful Italian word
bisbigliando, which I seem to recall means whispering. However I learned that
almost 40 years ago so my memory might be off on that. There might be some word
for guitar writing to indicate tremoloing a chord, so if you have a whole
passage of many chords, you might just need to write as a text block whatever
that specialized word is for guitar playing over the first chord in the
passage, and not have to put tremolos under every chord.
Michael
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As you'll hear, this example is notated with a 4-note tremolo, rather than a
3-note tremolo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s9-NFyp9lo
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Hello Annabelle,
The best thing to do is try out the different tremoli and hear the result in
playback; by my experience, the result is authentic.
I am not sure what you mean by "three note tremolos". If to take it
literally, that would mean a tremolo between three notes, in which case you
have to use the "tremolo with next note" function. You activate that by
pressing enter on your numpad while your cursor is on the first note of the
tromolo. This would give a tremolo between two notes. I haven't tried doing
it between three notes, but I imagine, just imagine, you would do another
"tremolo with next note" on the last note of your initial two-note tremolo.
Don't forget also that after each of these "tremolo with next note" moves,
you have to choose the speed of your tremolo,measured in strokes, which you
would write with your numpad numbers from 1 to 5.
Cheers
Vytautas
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Most Spanish guitar players that I've heard would do a three-note tremolo,
but I'm not sure how that would work in the "Tremolos" layout.
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Hi there,
A buzz roll is for drum notation. The tremolo amount depends on how much you
want the note to be tremoloed.
Maybe do a search and see what is most common?
Warmly,
Vaughn
On 3/7/20, Annabelle Susan Morison <foristnights@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, it's Annabelle.
I'm attempting to notate a piece for Spanish guitar, and I've heard
that they utilize tremolos. In the "Tremolos and Beams" layout of
keys, as far as I can tell, there are shortcuts for 3 Tremolos, 4
tremolos, 5 tremolos, and a buzz roll. Which one is best for Spanish
guitar?
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