A bunch of us had a little alfresco playing session in UK the other day - about 2 hours playing French, English and Irish folk tunes with short breaks. I attempted a lot of tremelo on these tunes, although some were quite fast reels and jigs so that was straight tune playing. It was great fun, but two mornings later, my right elbow is really stiff, with sore muscles, particularly the big one one on top of the joint towards the forearm. Am I doing something wrong, like directing tremelo from the wrong place, or holding the mando too far to my right (ie towards the picking hand) or is this just the natural result of playing tremolo on and off at medium to highish volume for 2hrs for the first time? I was picking near the fingerboard end (Eastman 305 so no Florida) or up to about 1" below it.
Thanks, Max
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