Chords for Mandolin Tremolo Tips - Roland White

Okay, this is for Cameron in California and I'll be seeing you in a couple weeks I guess at the camp
You want to know about tremolo?
_ _ how to do tremolo and
What I would do I would start just on one string at a time [A] _ _ _ [B] _ take your right hand _
[G] You can you hear this here.
[D] This is the [N] hand this part of the hand only
touching the bridge and just look behind the bridge and _
okay, and
And you can let your fingers ride on the don't anchor or don't even do anything like this here at all _ _
Just [A] like this here see that
and _ _ don't have a death grip on your pig, you know, like _
You're gonna have a hard time getting smooth tremolo should be done pretty lightly at first and with a
_ Lucid grip on your pig _ _ kind of like I just try it and see _ _ _
Okay, that's just on one string, okay
Then you want to go to do the two strings
_ See _ what I'm doing it's just it's off all in the wrist doesn't have to be the upper arm you're gonna have a hard time
the whole lower arm _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ [A] _
[B] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ [C#] _ _
It's gonna be a little difficult on the ground strings because [Am] you have the winding kind of grabs your [C#] pick, you know, so
_ [N] Don't dig in at all.
Just barely clip
Tip [F#] of the pick on the string, _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] you know, you don't have to be real loud to do [D] this
[A] _ _
_ _ _ I'll [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ play a little melody.
[N] I'm just a little melody just so you can watch my right hand here
_ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ [A] _ [G] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Em] _ [F#m] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[C#m] _ _ [D#] _ [A] _ [C#m] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You
Just really relax very relaxed _ and you don't want to do tremolo like this
[Cm] _ _
[G] That's not the type of musical playing _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [A] _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C#] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D#] _ [B] _ [F#m] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] All right
It's just you're not gonna do it overnight nicely, you know, but just take a little bit of time You know
Do it for a couple of minutes and then do something [A#] else and then come back to it, you know
[F#] Now _ [C#m] _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[G] that's going really slow tremolo there
_ _ [B] _ _
[G] _ _ [B] Okay, [D] _ [G] _ _ _
[B] _ [Gm] _ _ [D#] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ see you in a couple of weeks and we'll talk about it some more
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _