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Some people take a 'Spa Day'... how about a 'Vibrato Day'?
I've been spending time at the Eyal Kless YT site this past week, so today I spent a 'Vibrato Day' working through his vibrato videos.
Eyal has a boatload of tips and little exercises to help - some real eye-openers for me that will take me more than once through!
Typical Vibrato Mistakes
🤔... omg, everything hits home for me here!
Eyal Kless Exercises videos - in order:
Vibrato on violin - basic exercise II
Vibrato Challenge - this is his the better view of 2 videos.
Vibrato Exercise - reaffirms smooth movement.
Vibrato Exercises to Improve Touch
Vibrato Q&A
GOT A LOT OF WORK CUT OUT FOR ME!
...a film made from The Lost Puzzler would be cool.
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...just keeping this topic fresh to help me focus. 😊
We've got many threads on Vibrato, many discussions & videos on the forum, but I still get frustrated with physical problems.
I'm getting a little better with wrist vibrato, but I would still like to be able to do arm vibrato.
My problem is no matter how relaxed I get my arm, some muscles (or tendons?) are used that attach to my upper arm/shoulder area that aggravate my bursitis & arthritis (yeah, I got the itis 🥴). Jeez, it was bad enough when I 1st started playing I'd rest my elbow on a pillow to play - so I could avoid steroid injections!
Okay, even though I've paid more attention to my overall arm, hand & finger warm up lately - think I'm going to have to start paying MUCH more attention to carefully working my left shoulder/upper arm to free it up more. Like many other things associated with my playing the Violin/Viola, I have no clue why I've managed to gloss over this... maybe because I thought all arm vibrato was isolated in the forearm. Not sure if it's tendon or muscle tugging, but once I laid my right hand where my upper arm meets my shoulder, completely relaxed, I could feel what was happening - it's NOT my arm moving at the shoulder, if that makes any sense.
...this is going to take me awhile.
Just another good reason to try to learn to play these bowed string instruments when younger (if at all possible)!
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Kevin heard me complaining, so bought me a 'Gyro Ball' to help me work my arm/shoulder!
Well, I darn near wore myself out before I even got started practicing tonight! 🥴
Don't think I damaged anything, but still feelin' it - kinda fun trying to keep that thing going. 😊
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