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musicalprodigy · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 119

what do you call a trill kind of technique, but say its trilling back and forth from c to a. what is the name for it?

Bariman · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject:

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Didn't know there was a name for it. I guess it depends what key you're in though. If you were in A, it could be the 'minor-second trill' or something. Otherwise I have no idea!

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CMelodyMan · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject:

I think it's called a trimelo.
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JPSaxMan · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject:

Or we could just call it a fancy trill and shoot the horse Laughing

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Bariman · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

Right on JP.

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Thomas · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 223 Location: Alberta, Canada

Good thing you have a classical musician here. Very Happy

*smirks*

A trill between two notes larger than a whole tone apart, or a rapid repition of a single note (mostly used with strings) is called a tremolo. It's hard to explain what it looks like in writing, so here are a few examples:

http://www.myriad-online.com/images/workshop/tremolodisplay.gif

http://www.tgtools.de/brtrem.gif

It may look confusing at first, but the duration is really just the length of the first note in the tremolo. The second note signifies the end of the tremolo, and does not add any length to it.
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