Hello all, I'm new here. I can't play the mandolin myself, but my partner has one and is a beginner.

We (try to) make our own music and have a little PC-based home recording studio, and I want to add some mandolin sounds to a particular song, but just have no idea how to get the particular style of playing I want.

This is hard to describe, but there are 2 songs I am so far aware of that have the exact style I want...

1. Theme From the Movie Manhole (by Grace Slick, on her solo album Manhole)...probably nobody knows this song at all, but about 2/3 of the way through (it's about 15 minutes long), a mandolin comes in.

2. Cornflake Girl (by Tori Amos). Right at the very beginning before the piano and vocals come in, there's a mandolin.

Ok, so both of these mandolins are played in a sort of very quick, almost trembly style. I want this style, but my partner cannot get it. I don't know how to advise her.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and if so, how to do it??

Thanks so much!

sounds like you're looking for tremelo..
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