Trills

**Lockbox** · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 66

On the difficulty Hard songs, a lot of them have trills and stuff and they really bug me because i can hit about 4 out of 20 notes...any help on how to accomplish trills?

**Flipydippy** · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Cleveland, OH

You need to alt-strum those parts, that is, moving your strums up and down instead of just down or up.

**jesse0986** · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

^^ Um, no, you don't alt-strum trills.

For trills, you keep the lower note held down, and tap the higher note as it comes up, making it a pretty rapid tapping sequence. You should only need to strum ONCE, on the very first note.

Though I can't think of any trills on Hard.

For practice, take TIGRYT's "Trill Me" section into Practice mode. I spent ten minutes on it using the method I described and I was nailing them perfectly.
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**Rikuthemaster** · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Trills

There's a trill on Red Lottery.

Anyway, yeah I do the same thing as Jesse. Just keep the lower note held down.
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**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

I use the HO/PO method as well, but I have a terrible time with trills... so OP, you aren't the only one! I must just be off with my timing, but any song that has a Trill in it is an automatic non-FC no matter how hard or how easy the rest of the song is

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**hsr82** · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 245 Location: Boston, MA

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**jesse0986** · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

^^ There's only one super-fast trill that comes in Institutionalized that I can think of, and it's right at the beginning of the 3rd verse on R and Y (a blue hold comes before it, I think).

For that one, I hold down R and tap Y literally as fast as I possibly can. I can usually get at least 90% of it, and can sometimes combo it.

Freya's trills still kill me though.
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**Lockbox** · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 66

so u dont even need to strum that whole time?

**jesse0986** · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

Nope, all trills are HO/POs. Only one strum needed.
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**Lockbox** · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 66

dude,
i thought u had to strum so i was missing like every other one...

now i can do a lot better on some songs lol

and what about freebird on expert in the solo?
is that a trill too? its like in the beginning and it goes from red to blue up and down really fast?

**dr4gonforce** · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 78

Most trills are hopo-able. Only need to hit the first note.

There are 2 ways to hit trills.

1. Hold the highest note and use your next strongest finger to tap the other frets as fast as needed.

2. Hit the first note and bring your second hand up to tap for you.

**ultimateaggie12** · Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 784 Location: Screwston, Texas

I used to just alternate my fingers and then I realized that I could hold down the lower fret so after I got really good at my old method, I have to start over on the newer, better method haha
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**Lockbox** · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 66

now that i think about it...these are a lot easier than i thought they were

**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596