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Six Tips to Master Tremolo

Published on February 21, 2024January 25, 2026 by Leo GarciaLeave a comment

Over the years, I've posted several times about tremolo technique and even wrote the book Mastering Tremolo. Check it out if you haven't yet! Nevertheless, there are times when I decide to spend a lot of time working on certain techniques to brush up, improve, try new approaches, revisit, and revise. I did this with tremolo this week and though I may have mentioned them in my book, some stood out to me. Here are a few entries I wrote in my practice notes:

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Four Essential Ways to Work on Tremolo

Published on September 16, 2023 by Leo GarciaLeave a comment

In the video below, I demonstrate four great ways to help your tremolo improve. Two of them I’ve outlined in my book Mastering Tremolo, which if you haven’t picked up, you should : ). But the last two I came across in Abel Carlevaro’s hand-written notes to himself in one of his editions of Agustín Barrios Mangoré’s Una limosna por el amor de Diós. Below you’ll find links to Mastering Tremolo and a NEW study score of Barrios’s Una limosna. Hope it helps.

Mastering Tremolo on Amazon

Mastering Tremolo on Podia

Una limosna por el amor de Diós (Agustín Barrios Mangoré) study score

Maya Kazarina playing Barrios and Koshkin

Published on April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 by Leo Garcia1 Comment

I stumbled upon this video of Maya Kazarina, a tremendously gifted young guitarist, filmed during the final of a competition she obviously won! Here she plays Agustín Barrios Mangoré’s well known tremolo piece Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios with sublime tremolo and Nikita Koshkin’s Usher Waltz with the brilliance and ease of someone well beyond her years. Enjoy!