The Trill
Now I would like to introduce a new technique, the Trill, indicated in the tab by the symbol T. Trills can add drama to your playing as well as being an important way of sustaining a note. A trill is a rapid succession of hammer-ons and pull-offs with only the first note being picked. Listen to the recording to hear the correct effect of this technique.
Here are two licks which demonstrate the use of trills.
This one is in the low fingering, making use of open strings.
Here is another 12 Bar Blues solo containing both the high and low fingerings of the E form Blues scale. This solo makes use of both trills and double stops.
Class Sessions
1- Developing a Theme
2- Moving Licks
3- Grace Notes
4- Set Rhythms
5- More Set Rhythms
6- Two Bar Rhythms
7- Ties
8- Across the Bar
9- Triplets
10- Triplet Set Rhythms
11- Sliding Scales
12- Major Pentatonic - Other Forms
13- Chords and Arpeggios
14- Major Pentatonic Scales
15- LESSON TWENTY TWO
16- 12 Bar Arpeggio Riff
17- Arpeggio Solo
18- Sixteenth Notes
19- Set Rhythms With Sixteenths
20- The C Form
21- INTRODUCTION
22- Slow Blues Solo
23- Tremolo
24- The Blues Scale
25- Blues Licks
26- Blues Solo
27- Higher Up
28- The Trill
29- The D Form
30- LESSON THIRTY ONE
31- The Rake
32- Twelve-Eight Time
33- The A Form
34- LESSON THIRTY THREE
35- The G Form
36- Combining Major and Minor
37- Rhythm Notation
38- Common Picking Directions
39- Adding the Minor Third
40- Summary of Scales
41- Chords
42- A New Solo
43- Note Values
44- G Form Solo
45- A Form Solo
46- C Form Solo
47- Diagrams
48- Arpeggios
49- Dotted Notes
50- Combining Forms
51- Tablature
52- The Shuffle
53- Tablature Symbols