Help with chord trills???
This is extremely important to the piece I'm writing-- a chord needs to be played in the right hand, but ONLY THE TOP NOTE should be trilled. Whenever I try to place the trill, no matter what I do (make it green instead of blue, stem it differently, etc) fixes this. Anyone know how to do this? And how it should be notated? TIA
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Welcome! Two Voices?
In reply to Welcome! Two Voices? by Shoichi
I tried that but was unable to put the trill in the second voice. How did you do it?
[EDIT]: Figured it out, thank you!
Probably the playback of trills should be tweaked to do this automatically, though - trilling an entire chord isn't really a thing. Not for piano, anyhow. Maybe some other instrument has this concept? Technically I guess you could do it with the wrist on a guitar. What do others think?
In reply to Probably the playback of by Marc Sabatella
Violin also, trill the top note only, see attached song, bar 2.
V2ed to it, it sounds not really satisfying though, like a car break.
In reply to Violin also, trill the top… by Xianyue賢越
There are examples of double stop trills on violin and etudes have ben composed to practice them. Given that we use four fingers only triple stop trills are never required.
In reply to Probably the playback of by Marc Sabatella
I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to point out that in addition to double trills being common in the violin repertoire, they do also occur in the piano repertoire, e.g. Chopin's Barcarolle (https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/33295/mastering-double-trills) and this passage from the second movement of Beethoven's 32nd piano sonata: https://youtu.be/WGg9cE-ceso?t=1304 (Chopin's op. 25 no. 6 Etude is an exercise in double trills, but he wrote them out as semiquavers). So we do need ways to notate both double trills within a single voice and chords with a single trilled note (the former needs one trill symbol for each note of the chord).