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The ear registers the highest pitch and that is why you start on the pitch and pull back.
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You're getting there @Jim Dunleavy - nice camera angles as well showing the first finger away from the neck.... I'm at much the same level I guess - i.e. it's still not happening "totally naturally" and requires (certainly on my part) extreme concentration.... LOL One of these days, it will "just happen"....
Oh and yes - I've always understood that as well - vibrate either (a) pitch-to-flat-to-pitch-to-flat-to-pitch, or (b) starting flat - flat-to-pitch-to-flat-to-pitch etc etc... although - I must admit when I started tying vibrato (far, far too early !) I was doing what I do on guitar to recreate a "pitch-bend" ( no, not by actually pushing the string sideways hahaha ) - but doing exactly the opposite - i.e. what @bluesviolin is saying in a sort of way with a "sort of "single" ( non-continuous ) vibrate....
Nonetheless - maybe there is a misunderstanding here as well - whichever way you do vibrate - sure - I guess you always want to end up "on pitch" - you would never want to end the vibrato sequence flat (or sharp)... well - I suppose except in rare situations... oh - too much analyses Bill !! STOP ! LOL...
...goes off to have a quick practice !
I seriously recommend not copying my mistakes. D'oh - 
Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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True. LOL
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
Fiddlerman said
The ear registers the highest pitch and that is why you start on the pitch and pull back.
Yes, this is what I was saying, Fiddlerman said it better.
...but I was talking about continuous vibrato, not a 'sort of single non continuous vibrate' as per BillyG.
Frankly, I can't see the purpose in that type of vibrato?
Jim Dunleavy said
bluesviolin said
..........I have been taught that good sounding vibrato rolls from 'pitch' to sharp, and then the vibrato will sound on pitch..........Everything I've read and watched says the opposite is true. Vibrato is always below the actual pitch.
@Jim Dunleavy @fiddlestix
Ok Jim, you are right! and as per fiddlestix post. I went and checked what I was actually doing, and I'm a bit flat and sharp with pitch in the middle. So I bent my wrist a bit (as per fiddlestix video) and pulled toward flat. I remember I used to do it that way, but just got out of the habit I guess. I have a rather bad habit of vibrating a lot of my notes even if I stay on the note for a relatively short time. I will pay more attention now. Thanks for reminding me of the correct way to do it.
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Great job @Jim Dunleavy looks like you've got it! 
I'm not having any success with it, lol, I can get the general movement in guitar-position, but the minute I get it in regular position I'm unable to move my wrist correctly.
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