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-Sorry if anyone answered this,
When I first started taking Classical Guitar lessons back when I was
in 9th grade.
One of the terms I remember learning was "Tremelo" picking with
alternating index and middle fingers on the same string.
Jeff(bigtikidude)
-- In , Phil Dirt <phildirt@r...> wrote:
> When I was a wee lad, my guitar teacher told me that picking on the up
> and the down stroke was called double picking. Every guitarist I've
> talked to knows that term. That is the only term I heard used until
the
> last decade or so, not that it wasn't in use before (I don't know).
>
> Here's the point, and it's about words, which have meanings. It seems
> to me that tremolo is an incorrect term. Tremolo is a variation pitch
> (string bending, whammy, vocals, etc.). Vibrato is a variation in
> volume. Double picking is neither. So, I don't understand what
> relationship the word "tremolo" has to double picking. I would think
> staccato would be better.
>
> Here's the question: Why or how did this term "tremolo" get applied to
> double picking? Forgive my ignorance, but several searches have not
> satisfied me on this one.
>
> Phil
