Tremelos

[SDL]

What are your tips on tremelos and NOT aching?

[BoliverAllmon]

relax, think about waving to someone.  Start real slow and keep the tremolos in time. Make sure you can keep a good rhythmn without tensing up. THen just progress the speed and boom you have good tremolos.

boliver

[SDL]

Yeah but thats an overview.  What about application of weight, use of lower arm, upper arm, rotation?

[anda]

if you need to sustain the tremolo over a longer period of time, it might help constantly changing the active part (forearm/upper part of the arm); this allows you to relax the other.

[BoliverAllmon]

my overview worked for me and I played shosty's prelude 14 where I tremolo for nearly 6 min.  straight. So i don't know what else you need to know. put your fingers over the notes and just rock back and forth using your wrist and forearm not your fingers.

[mikeyg]

practice Hanon exercise 60 and Liszt Trancendental Etude 12... is youlike frustration 

[BoliverAllmon]

nah just play the shosty

[lostinidlewonder]

With tremolo's you have to always find which is the finger which balances the entire hand. For instance, look at the Gaspard de la Niut, Ondine. The opening RH tremolo it is the thumb which needs to be balanced, so when the 4th finger plays it doesn't disbalance or turn the wrist. You have to hold your position at the thumb if that makes sense. Easier to see it done for you.
But in all tremolo's they demand that you know which finger balances the hand.

[SDL]

I never had any real problems with Ondine.  But I do with LH tremelos - Liszt Legend no 2, & previously the Pathetique.