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I was looking at the sheet music for El Paso at “musicnotes” and under a half note there are three slash marks on the stem.  The same marks are also below the tab numbers. Any idea what they mean?

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@Triple-o  That indicates tremolo.

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On 11/7/2019 at 10:55 AM, DianeB said:

@Triple-o  That indicates tremolo.

Thanks, that never entered my mind. I guess I really didn’t understand what the term tremolo really meant. The  tremolo bar on electric guitars is obviously misnamed.

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Would have never thought that, usually see a wavey line indicating that. 

Then again that's probably a guitar thing , "classical " types notate everything 

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5 hours ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:

Would have never thought that, usually see a wavey line indicating that. 

Then again that's probably a guitar thing , "classical " types notate everything 

What Diane is talking about is Tremolo Picking, where you strike the string quickly with the pick. Instead of Tremolo where you strike the string once and then bend it. 

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10 hours ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:

Would have never thought that, usually see a wavey line indicating that. 

Then again that's probably a guitar thing , "classical " types notate everything 

What’s interesting to me is that the music was written for acoustic guitar and you would think the common “vibrato” symbol would have been better. Oh well, Potayto,potahto

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