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Vibrato: Why it has a near 100% failure rate
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Ferret
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Watchtower68 said
Wait a minute Fiddlestix there's only room for one quitter herecoffee1.

I've attempted vibrato once or twice here in the past month as far as video's on any violin technique I would have to say this has to be a hard way for the established player to teach a beginner or student and slowing vibrato down along with explaining how to do it at the same time can't be an easy task.

I was discussing this with my teacher told her I was going to try to learn vibrato because I'd heard it takes months to master,one video I watched on the subject was done by a woman who said you just don't wake up and start doing vibrato on the violin,what does my teacher tell me "I woke up one day and it was just there I was able to do vibrato" I don't think this is going to happen for me.

I'm no longer considering throwing in the bow by any means thanks to Ferret and others who gave me some tough encouragement,and to boot two days ago I played in front of a crowd of over 30 people in a recital even if I did flub a couple times1st-place.

Though I'm pretty sure a few of them went home to check their calendars to see if it was May or actually December(I played a Christmas song)thumbs-up

 

 

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Great to hear about the recital. I've been playing for over a year now that doing that would scare the willies out of me.

You will have to post a video soon thumbs-up

Seen it all. Done it all. Can't remember most of dunno ..... What was I saying???? facepalm

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Making beautiful music without vibrato is actually more of a challenge. Sometimes when I want to really perfect a piece, I'll take away vibrato an explore the musicality to it's fullest before putting it back again.

I agree that vibrato is over-rated. I'm just fortunate that the actual motion/movement of vibrating and finger flexibility works for me. I then choose at times to vibrate or not and sometimes too much. It's really all a question of taste from that point forward.

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