Can anyone tell me how to do vibrato on the violin?

Question

please help.

Answer 1

Learning vibrato takes a long time, but here's an exercise my teacher used with me and it helped. Put the scroll of your violin up against a wall or a friend's hand (pad the wall, or do it against a bulletin board) and lean into the wall. This will make you depend less on your arm to hold up the violin, freeing it to work entirely on vibrating. Work on shaking your arm back and forth. You should be able to feel the skin and muscle in your upper arm jiggle (kinda gross, but...). Eventually, stop using the wall for support.

Here's another exercise: cross your right arm across your chest, with your hand on your left shoulder. Pinch your right arm (thumb on bottom, middle finger on top of arm) about halfway down with your left hand. Work on shaking your left arm from the elbow while still pinching your right arm. Again, you will feel your upper arm shaking. After doing this, take your violin, and hold it like a guitar. Practice the same shaking motion in this position. When this gets easy hold your violin halfway up, like a shotgun, and vibrate this way. Finally, hold it normally and work from there.

Vibrato takes time and always can be improved on. I do not think it appears suddenly, it takes months of work. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Vibrato....a definition: A vibrato is the slight fluctuation of a note used by performers to intensify or prevent the note from sounding flat or stale. The vibrato is usually produced by rocking the hand back and forth while the finger is pressing down the note...this rocking motion sounds most natural if coming from the wrist instead of the entire arm. A vibrato can be achieved by different players in many different ways...each contributing to its own stylistic sound. Most commonly, the violin vibrato is achieved by rocking the hand from the wrist. Be careful not to develop any bad habits in your attempts to learn proper vibrato technique. It's highly recommended that you have a personal instructor teach you proper form and technique.

Answer 3

At first, try to move your finger up and down the strings 5 inches. Then, go for 4,3,2,1, and then just move it vertically. One thing you don't want to do is to move your finger side to side, shake the whole violin, or do tremolo, which means slurring the note while lifting your finger up and down. Good Luck

Answer 4

You rock the finger that's is on the string from side to side.

Answer 5

Same as you vibrato on your cello bass and viola....

SHAKE IT BABY !!

Answer 6

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