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Slashes across a stem asking for rapid repetition.
Also known as: Tremolo slashes, Repeat slashes
Slashes through a note's stem ask for the note to be repeated rapidly, one slash per halving of the repeated value. Slashes between two notes mean alternate between them instead, which is a different technique written almost identically.
Instruct rapid repetition of a note, each slash halving the value of the repeated unit.
Contexts: Music
Mean alternation between two pitches rather than repetition of one when the slashes are drawn between two noteheads.
Contexts: Music
Are distinguished in string writing from a bowed tremolo, where the slashes ask for unmeasured rapid bowing rather than a counted division.
Contexts: Music
One, two or three short parallel diagonal strokes crossing a note stem or the space between two notes.