Tremolo picking

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Tremolo picking

Tremolo picking or double picking describes the musical technique of picking

Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a string instrument. For guitars and similar instruments, the plectrum is a separate tool held in the player's hand....
on a guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
or other string instrument

String instrument

A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones....
in which a single note is played repeatedly in quick succession. It can be achieved either with the fingers or with a pick. In the latter case, the pick is moved up and down rapidly to hit the intended string of the guitar

Guitar

Sustain

Sustain may be a parameter of musical sound in time. As its name may imply, it denotes the period of time during which the sound is sustained before it becomes inaudible, or silent....
to a melodic line where the notes would otherwise decay rapidly.

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Tremolo picking or double picking describes the musical technique of picking

Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a string instrument. For guitars and similar instruments, the plectrum is a separate tool held in the player's hand....
on a guitar

Guitar

String instrument

Guitar

Sustain

Dick Dale

Dick Dale is a surf rock Electric Guitar, known as "The King Of The Surf Guitar". He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender Musical Instruments Corporation amplifiers, including the first ever 100 watt amp....
lead guitar playing on the song "Misirlou

Misirlou

Misirlou , is a popular Greek music song with a cult-like popularity in five very diverse styles of music: Greek rebetiko, Middle-Eastern belly dance, Jewish wedding music , American surf rock and international orchestral easy listening ....
." The picking style became an element of other surf rock

Surf rock

Surf rock is a style of music that originated in the USA that mixes elements of surf music and rock music, and partially due to the number of Mexican immigrants in southern California, added elements of Spanish rooted melodies, as well as popular titles like "Mexico", "Baja", and "Esperanza"....
instrumentals, including "Pipeline"

Pipeline (song)

"Pipeline" is a surf rock song by The Chantays. It was also recorded by Johnny Thunders, Hanoi Rocks recorded a live version, it opens their "All Those Wasted Years" live album, Hank Marvin, Agent Orange , The Ventures, The Challengers , Anthrax , and Dick Dale with the help of Stevie Ray Vaughan....
by The Chantays

The Chantays

The Chantays are a surf rock band from the early 1960s, best known for the hit record instrumental rock "Pipeline " . It all started in 1961 when 5 high school friends decided to start their own band....
. The technique is also exhibited frequently in Bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
playing, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n balalaika

Balalaika

The balalaika - is a stringed instrument of Russian origin, with a characteristic triangle body and 3 strings .The Balalaika family of instruments includes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest, the prima balalaika, sekunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass balalaika and contrabass balalaika....
playing, some forms of heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
, flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a Spain term that refers both to a musical genre, known for its intricate rapid passages, and a dance genre characterized by its audible footwork....
, and Turkish folk music

Turkish folk music

Turkish folk music has combined the distinct cultural values of all those civilisations which have lived in Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire territories in Europe and Asia....
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All notes in this picking style are even--and there is not commonly a note in a tremolo sequence that is accented

Accent (music)

In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note , either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark....
. It sounds as if the player is letting one note ring, but that note is broken up in a staccato sequence.