More on William Foden
February 3, 2007
A friend of mine, Eugene Braig, agreed to share his thoughts/observations on the Foden method (mentioned below) -
“Another older name for “wagging” finger tremolo (usually i), a term that was used by baroque-era guitarists and is still used by flamenco players, is dedillo. Yamashita did some treble dedillo with c and played full chords below with his other fingers in his Pictures at a Exhibition transcription: that’s nuts! In vol. 2 of his method, Foden doesn’t use the term but he describes using multiple fingers to play individual strings in harmonized dedillo passages: that’s nuts too! The Foden tremolo technique that I can’t even imagine bringing to tremolo speed because of the back-and-forth opposed motion of the fingers is that to sound the bass and tremolo on the beat in multi-finger punteado: p/i-m-a-m-p/i-m-a-m-etc. Man! Good luck.”
Thanks Eugene
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