Torroba: Melodia (Lento)

There's no rush in Torroba's world.
This piece from "pièces caractéristiques" is not your regular Spanish Tremolo, so to even out and keep it slow, I play use p-i-m-a or, better still, p-i-a-m. I use a special fingering.

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[FretboardToAsh]

Great piece. But why on earth you would use any right hand technique other than p-a-m-i I cannot begin to comprehend.

[nomusician]

@FretboardToAsh This allows for, where called for, a slower 'tremolo' . Try it! The tempo indicates Lento - which is there to differentiate it from a standard 'flamenco-style' tremolo. (Besides this, it's great practice for getting fingers working independently - similar stuff found in 'Pumping Nylon' book.

[SonorityVideo]

The Lento indication for this piece is with reference to the quavers in the thumb and not the tremolo which plays the melody. It is a nonsense to suggest this fantastic piece should be played so slowly and you ought to watch out for so many bum notes before posting.

Carlos.

[FretboardToAsh]

@nomusician I'm aware of what the practice of this technique achieves, and I practice a lot of different patterns. But for for a -performance- I prefer using techniques that come naturally to the hand, rather than ones that are 'obstructive' in feeling, if you will. Whether to go with what comes natural, or practice equal skill for each finger is a discussion I doubt it'll ever end. As for the performance, I'd suggest getting the odd dissonants out, the recording is sparkling brilliant though.

[fuzzman14]

So by playing tremelo this way, you make your quarter note at about 30 bpm, which I suppose in the right context is lento. Ok, but when it says piu mosso (more movement), your tempo more than doubles to about qtr note=70 bpm, which basically never happens with piu mosso in the same piece, just sayin.

Doing tremelo this way is good practice, absolutely, but its for that, practice.

Also, there may be no rush in Torroba's world, but I dont think he planned on putting everyone to sleep.

[Tarnovsky]

very nice