Sunday, December 31, 2006

Day 3 towards Recuerdos de la Alhambra

I started out playing every other attack (p and m instead of p-a-m-i on each beat) at 120 bpm - so twice as fast as normal. It felt fine so I did all the tremolo exercises on page 7 that way.

I also added a few more exercises to the drills listed at the bottom of page 7. I played the tremolo on 2nd and then 3rd string in addition to 1st string.

I really like the four drills at the bottom of page 7 of our guidebook (guidebook can be found at recuerdosdelaalhambra.com). All of which make you focus on relationship between the thumb and the fingers of the right hand when executing the tremolo.

I may start to add the left hand to the right hand soon.

Happy New Year!