vibrato

[Padwick87]

Okay people I could really use some good advice on this one...
I have been trying to get my vibrato good for ages. I used to use mainly the wrist, and get a little vibrato out of that - but nowhere near good enough.
I have seen the vibrato lesson in the intermediate section and there david says that he reckons its more in the fingers.

What happens to me is that when I try that it seems I have nowhere near the strength even to get a little vibrato out of it, or maybe I'm just using the wrong technique. What I do is more of a short bend back and forth - but nowhere near fast enough for the proper vibrato sound. And I have difficulties bending it down and then up. It's more like either I bend it down and then back to original position and then down again and back - or up and back. I can't get this up - original position - down, going.

I don't know if this will make sense to anyone - but any sort of advice on vibrato will be appreciated.

[screamin eagle]

when I was first working on my vibrato this is what I did to get it to sound right. Whether you want/need to bend up or down you should stay on that side of the bend, don't go down and then up and then down and then up.

For instance: on the second string you are most likely going to be going up on the vibrato, so just bend the string slightly, like a quarter bend or even a little less, just until you hear a real change in pitch and then go back down to normal position (release the bend) then back up to that position. The small bend that you are doing should be really small, but what you are doing is increasing the tension on the string to a point where the pitch changes and then you are quickly bending and releasing.

Vibrato is another name for temelo, and tremelo means to change the pitch--it is a back and forth thing.

So what I started out doing was bending the string up, or down, just a bit so that the tension was greater and I started to hear the change in pitch then I would rock the string back and forth at that point.

You don't need to do a slight up bend and then slight down bend and then a slight up bend--that is too much movement, and usually ends up not producing very much vibrato cause when you try to do it faster you usually don't bend the string up and then down quite enough to get the effect.

[ez-one]

I was taught that vibrato was not done by bending the string with your fingers like you would a bend, but by pretty much locking your wrist and and using a pivet point with the area where your finger joins your hand and then slightly twisting your wrist/forearm, cleaner with more control

[ez-one]

I was taught that vibrato was not done by bending the string with your fingers like you would a bend, but by pretty much locking your wrist and and using a pivet point with the area where your first finger joins your hand and then slightly twisting your wrist/forearm, cleaner with more control