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revmike
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Link Posted on Jul 15 2014 05:46 PM

Keep your hands, arm, body as relaxed as possible. Otherwise you will be fighting for control. I also recommend practicing the way you play...standing up, and through an amp. A lot can change if you always practice sitting down with no/ low volume.

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Link Posted on Jul 15 2014 05:49 PM

pscates wrote:

My biggest thing, coming from 25+ years of a country/rockabilly background (I was a James Burton/Telecaster guy in my previous life ;) ), is to just use the pick and not my other fingers. That's been a neat transition, and I've picked up a whole new way of playing (because I've always done the hybrid style). So it's nice to just lay into something, pick only, for once. And this tremolo playing never really came up for me until I got into this music.

It's amazing what you can do with just a flat pick. I'm reminded of this every time I go through one of my acoustic crosspicking phases.

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Link Posted on Oct 28 2014 12:26 AM

I was browsing on Wikipedia and came across their Wikibooks section, and I found a book for guitar playing, and they actually cover trem picking...

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guitar/Tremolo_Picking

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