Editing Tremolo (section)

==Notation==
In [[musical notation]], unmeasured tremolo is usually notated as regular repeated notes -- measured tremolo -- of very short duration: so short as to preclude confusion with an actual measured tremolo. Commonly, for example, the duration used will be demisemiquavers ([[thirty-second note]]s). In this case, there will be three strokes through the stems of the notes, except on notes which already have beams or flags: quavers ([[eighth note]]s) then take two slashes, and semiquavers ([[sixteenth note]]s) take one.
:[[File:Tremolo notation.svg]]
In the case of semibreves ([[whole note]]s), which lack stems, the strokes or slashes are drawn above or below the note, where the stem would be if there were one.

In slower [[Tempo (music)|tempos]] (and/or [[Meter (music)|meters]] with larger denominators), notes of shorter duration (corresponding to additional strokes) would be used. To eliminate ambiguity as to whether an unmeasured tremolo or regular repeated demisemiquavers ([[thirty-second note]]s) should be played, the word ''tremolo'' or the abbreviation ''trem.'', is sometimes added.

If the tremolo is between two or more notes, both notes are given the full value of the passage and the bars are drawn between them:
:[[File:Tremolo notation two notes.svg]]
As shown above, a minim ([[half note]])-based tremolo is sometimes drawn with beams connecting the two notes together rather than interpolated bars (strokes).

===Bowed string instruments===
Violin fingered tremolo; notice the joining of strokes and stems is different for different time values, and that some notes shorter than eighth notes are written out, such as the last thirty-second notes on the last beat of [[bar (music)|measure]] three:
: [[File:Fingered-tremolo.png|thumb|none|upright=3|Fingered tremolo notation<ref name= Forsyth-1982 />{{rp|358}}]]
Violin bowed-and-fingered tremolo, notated the same as fingered tremolo but without slurs and with ''staccato'' above the staff:
: [[File:Bowed-and-fingered-tremolo.png|thumb|none|upright=3|Bowed-and-fingered tremolo notation<ref name= Forsyth-1982 />{{rp|362}}]]