Music Help needed please!

[thereallyniceman]

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BUT the above rambling is not why I posted!  I am starting to learn a piece in 4/4 time that has chord tremolo from beat 2 of the bar and the notes are tied to beat 1 of the next bar.

Easy, but one thing that I don't know, nor the musicians that I have asked is:

Do I stress the 1st beat of the second bar using a firmer stroke of the tremolo (to keep the beat strong) ?   or just  play the tremolo the same for the 4 beats?

thus:

1. 2 tr~~3~~4~~1~~2.  3.  4. 1  etc

 

I hope that the musicians understand what I am trying to ask!!

 

Ian

[Mike Moss]

I think if you think in terms of clusters of four twiddles the stress will appear automatically... as in TWIDDLEtwiddletwiddletwiddle TWIDDLEtwiddletwiddletwiddle TWIDDLEtwiddletwiddletwiddle and so forth.

[Jody Stecher]

In the abstract I would think the tie suggests non stress on the new 1 . An better  answer *might* be forthcoming (from someone ) if we knew the identity of the piece of music. 

[thereallyniceman]

Thanks Jody,

It may be an odd question as ordinarily a note which is tied is played once and rings for as long as the tie. It maybe that a tremolo is not actually a tie and could be stressed for the next bar's 1st beat?  I will experiment with it!

This is a Van Eps piece that I am transcribing, by ear, from an old record that I had never heard before. I won't say which it is yet until I am clear in my mind that "most" of my transcription is close to how to Fred VE played the piece. Then perhaps Jody you could check it over before I post it?

Thanks to you Mike... twiddleys eh?  :-)