Answer by user6164 for Practicing Trills
Go back to the fundaments - practice your hammer-on and pull-offs. Get it solid. Make them sing! Ensure that the attack volume of these notes is equal to normal attack volume you usually do. Only the...
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Here is a great exercise I used to give to students as they get started doing hammer-ons and pull-offs, just pick it the first time and make a trill drill out of it.Starting in the first four frets,...
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Start small and work your way up.Start with a hammer-on, for example, on the A string between frets 7 and 9, between index and ring fingers. This is probably the easiest place to trill, at least it is...
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Trills are (unfortunately) one of those things that only constant repetition will aid. Your body is not naturally used to the movements required for trills. When you constantly practice them, your...
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The slowness of my trills is getting annoying. I am able to play Blue by Yngwie Malmsteen but yet fail at doing the trill in the intro. How can one practice to make them faster? Endurance is not an...
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