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How to "shred" finger style.

by Wille
(Sweden)

I'm interested in starting to play pieces like Mozart's "Rondo ala Turka", but I'm wondering how one is supposed to play the faster melodies (like the very first 4 notes for example). Just a name for this technique would be great because at the moment I don't even know what to search for. I think its called picado in Flamenco terms.

So basically, how would one go on about playing the first four notes of Rondo?

Thank you for a great website!

Hi Wille,

I have never played that piece myself on guitar but thinking about it I’d imagine that you are playing 16th notes followed by a quarter note (in probably 2/4 time) and those notes are slurred. That is you’d play the first note and the last note and the notes in between are played in a slurred fashion.

I do know the music and it’s quite fast but on guitar I’m sure you would slur those notes. So I would call them slurred 16th notes. A sixteenth note has two tails on the stem.

Perhaps someone reading this could also assist in helping Wille.

I hope this has been of some help.

Kind regards,
Trevor M.