What exactly is meant by the term? I've seen it several times but I don't know what it means. I've been playing guitar for years but for some reason I've never learned that term.
tremelo picking
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Leper_/-\ffinity
Child of The Grave
Im pretty sure it is like picking a note/chord as much as you can repeatedlym so that it is constantly ringing out.
BulletRider
Member
yep, that's it. A band that uses tremelo picking a lot is Cryptopsy for their single note playerthingies.
BulletRider
Member
So you are just hitting one note really fast, to get that buzzsaw effect. But it's not palm muted, like it is in thrash?
It could be. The word 'tremelo' means rapidly changing volume just as 'vibrato' means 'rapidly changing pitch. Whether it's muted or not depends on the song, but either way, if it's too fast or arhythmical to be conventionally notated, you'd consider it tremelo picking.
Erik
New Metal Member
Just listen to any black metal band and 90% of the riffs will be tremolo picked. 
Off the top of my head, good examples of tremolo picking would be the first riffs of "Ea, Lord of the Depths" by Burzum or "I am the Black Wizards" by Emperor or "Drowned" by Entombed as used in a more death metal context.
Off the top of my head, good examples of tremolo picking would be the first riffs of "Ea, Lord of the Depths" by Burzum or "I am the Black Wizards" by Emperor or "Drowned" by Entombed as used in a more death metal context.
Yeah, I know exactly what it is. I do it all the time. Just about every fast metal song has tremelo picking, if you include muted tremelo picking.
Erik
New Metal Member
Temolo picking owns. It sounds really cool. But I don't like the way it sounds when a power chored is temolo picked, which you sometimes find in black metal.
