Chords for Joscho Stephan: Secrets of the Gypsy Tremolo

Another thing that it's I guess a classic gypsy thing that I really love is the tremolo.
Yeah, I feel like it's just so
It's such a trademark for the yeah.
Yeah, and is that same what's the right hand?
If you do something like this, let's say you you you do caught like you have seven nine and you have this
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_ _ _ _ [E] I think that that's really cool about this camera position where you can really see this because often people ask me about this
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Yeah
Do you feel the wrist doing this also the wrist is really doing?
[D] _ Okay, this all the time, of course
The whole forearm is doing a bit but it's mostly out of the wrist and that
_ That helps to to play this also relaxed.
How many strings are you hitting when you do that? _ _
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When I do this we have just four notes that we play on the fretboard and then of course I try to make it more small
To use maybe just these four strings.
Well, you otherwise I pick is pretty heavy gauge, right?
How thick is the thing?
I think it's one point eight
_ So but when you do that, it sounds very light it sounds really graceful
So you're not really hitting the strings really hard.
What I'm doing is I'm building it up.
I think that's what Django always did
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That sounds a bit too aggressive for me and Django often started he wants to let's say
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What I also do I try to start a bit _ _
Yeah quiet and and get more power on the on the tremolo
Now there are times when you do that where you also go double time in the middle of it
Where it feels like it looks like a smaller movement
Like if you're doing 16th, and then you go to 30 seconds in the middle
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Maybe it's when you're doing more rhythm like maybe when you do rhythm the reason things I have different
Things that of course that I use when I play
_ Do something like that?
Yes.
Yeah.
I know I think you mean something like this [Gbm] maybe
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_ _ _ Different stuff like this I use all the time of course and but it's the same, you know
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you know have to have the
Biggest impact on this and was that that was another thing you develop I feel yeah, okay, and it's to be honest
_ Because people often ask me how I practiced and stuff like that.
I can't really tell you I
Can't imagine really right I practice stuff like this.
Well, you have that and you were 16
Yeah, this just came to me and I understand this directly
I don't know why I never there's a lot of stuff that I practice, but there's also a lot of stuff that I never really
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