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I really enjoy the violin. I always have and it's my first instrument. I'm taking lessons at a music shop in my town, but I'm having some trouble. When I was really young I broke my left wrist in 2 places and it never really healed right. Anyhow, it's hard for me to play with shifts, and especially trying to do vibrato. My wrist feels like it's locking up or something and won't let me do it. I heard somewhere I think on youtube that there are different ways of playing vibrato, one is with the wrist and the other I think was using some sort of elbow motion?
Does anyone have any tips that might help me compensate and be able to play a little better? If I play slow stuff I'm actually not running people out of the neighborhood anymore, but I have a really hard time playing anything with a fast tempo.
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With old injuries, it's really about what's most comfortable for you! I have a pretty bad spine injury and had to make several adjustments to my playing style as well. Don't let those things discourage you! There are definitely more than one way to skin that cat!
With vibrato, if you are having problems with wrist/hand vibrato, try using arm vibrato! ....wow, I said "vibrato" a bunch there! LOL
Arm vibrato uses your bicep muscle with a bend at the elbow rather then the wrist. FM has a great video on it! Check it out:
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The piece of advice that I would like to give you without sounding 'negative' is listen to some of the Great fiddlers and tell me that you 'have to' use vibrato to be great I always find that a comfort
I think vibrato is like really good salad dressing....sure the salad and croutons are delicious, but the dressing....oooh man, takes it to the next level. And soon, I can make my own dressings.
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