Vibrato is something extremely important that usually gets very little attention. I go over what it is, the different types, and some exercises for you.
What we’re doing, we’re taking the notes and we’re shaking them a little bit to make them sound a little bit more like the voice. Everyone has their own opinion on what sounds good to them, what kind of vibrato works and what they like to listen to. And they also have their own opinions on how to classify the different types of vibrato. It’s basically expression, we’re drawing attention to certain notes and we’re giving our guitar a voice.
Have you ever listened to a player and you say in a few notes you knew exactly who it was that was playing? Most likely that player had a certain type of vibrato, that you associated with their playing. And we’ll get to some players. We’re going to take a good look at a few players vibrato in a moment.
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Well, let’s start off talking about the basics. Basically, what are we doing, we’re tightening and then returning the string to normal pitch. Were slightly raising the pitch a little bit and then lowering it back down. Or, we could raise and lower around a central pitch. So the pitch would go up a little bit and then you can go underneath a little bit. Both ways are considered vibrato. So instead of playing a note just straight, just flat, we’re going to manipulate the pitch a little bit by bending the strings slightly or even very widely if that’s what you choose, to create some interest.
And that what if you’re a beginner? Most beginners are so worried about just starting to play and vibrato is the last thing that they’re worried about, they just want to get their fingers to work, to go to the right places on the guitar. So you start to play. And as a beginner gets to a certain point, they start comparing their own playing to what they’re listening to. You start to think, well, I’m playing the notes right, but it just doesn’t sound correct. It doesn’t sound like what I’m listening to or how my friends play. And you start to say, oh, they’re kind of shaking that note at the end of a phrase. Then you start to experiment with this and you form your basic vibrato. “Okay. If I just put a little shake at the end, it’ll sound a little bit better. “
And usually that’s all that’s ever thought about it, that’s all that’s put into it. But, vibrato is important. It’s an emotional thing. People feel it. It gets to the listener and it’s something that it deserves more thought and more practice to really get something. If you really want your plane to become effective to the listener, it’s something we need to think about. And so let’s talk about the types of vibrato. I’m going to break this into a few types. If you, if you look up vibrato on the Internet, everyone has a different way of looking at this, but I break it down pretty basic.
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Let’s go ahead and start with the first type I talked about, which wasvertical, or along the string. This is usually thought of as classical technique of vibrato or it’s called parallel vibrato. Basically, it boils down to where your finger is on a note and it’s planted in one place. It doesn’t move and it’s basically where you would press the note down and your wrist or your arm is in motion. So I’m at the eighth fret on the B string, just playing a G note. I’ve got my thumb on the back of the neck and I’m shaking my wrist back and forth, but I’m not letting my finger slide anywhere. It’s planted where it is.It’s not a wide vibrato, It’s very tight, and I can play it faster or slower.
It’s a very subtle effect. The motion from your arm or your wrist is transferred through your finger onto the string and it creates a very gentle tension on the string raising and lowering back to pitch. You hear it described as rocking your hand back and forth while your finger is still. Sometimes you will see players who take their thumb off of the neck or they’ll leave it on andanchor from that thumb. This is called a vertical or a parallel type of vibrato because we’re going along with the string. We’re not moving the string back and forth. Any motion is going in the same direction that the string is.
There’s another type of vibrato that also stays in this vertical style, and that’s theslide. Where the last vibrato we talked about your finger stays planted. This is different. Your finger actually travels up and down the string. So, let’s say you’re on the seventh fret of the G string. That’s it. That’s a D note. And what I’m doing is, I put my finger down like I’m just going to play regular D note. I actually slide my finger back towards the fret behind it and then come back and forth, back and forth, up and down the string.
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It’s still a very gentle, subtle, effect. The pitch raises and then comes back down. It’s an understated gentle effect, but it sounds very nice. It’s very vocal.
Let’s talk about the one that I use the most, and this is ahorizontal type vibratoand that just means it’s going across the fret. We’re using bends. We’re bending the string slightly (or even wide if that’s what you’re going for) and then releasing it back to the pitch. These aren’t bent to reach another note. We’re just trying to go a little bit above the note and then come back.
We’re featuring the note and surrounding it. This is a traditional style vibrato. It’s used in blues. It’s generally wider, meaning that the pitch goes farther away from the intended note. It’s performed like a regular bend. You can have your thumb wrapped around the neck. You can use any finger that you want, but you see blues players using the first finger and the third finger, a whole lot. There are several different ways we can achieve this. You can twist your wrist, You could lift the thumb.
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You don’t have kind of a reference point when your thumb is on the neck. You can actually shake the whole neck. The note that you’re pressing down slides across the string in a horizontal way across the frets following the fret direction, not the string direction. You can do that with your arm doing the movement. Your wrists actually your fingers doing, the movement.It’s not a drastic change, but it feels good for you to play it as the way it sounds.
The next type of vibrato I want to talk about, is calledcircular vibrato. I remember a friend who played classical guitar when I went to music school. He would go on and on and on about circular vibrato. And basically, it’s both the vertical and the horizontal types of vibrato performed at the same time. Steve Vai, is a big proponent of this. It’s just a combination of the two. The verticals going up and down the string, the horizontals going back and forth across the string. If you combine the two, it’s almost like you’re drawing a circle,
The last type of vibrato, we’re going to talk about ismechanical or an effect type vibrato.Let’s start from easiest and work our way to the more involved. So the one thing you could do is you could actually bend the neck of the guitar. You hear this a lot with cords. You put your right hand on the upper horn of the guitar or, or the bout of the guitar, and then your left hand, which is you’re fretting hand, It’s pushing the neck a little bit, pushing it a little slack. So in this instance, you’re going down. As you push the neck of a guitar forward, it loosens the strings. You could do it the other way too.
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That’s pulling nick back to get a higher pitch. I’m pushing to get it a lower pitch. A lot of people are afraid to do this. They’re afraid they’re going to break the neck of their guitar. On more fragile guitars. I wouldn’t recommend trying it, but on a regular electric guitar with a truss rod, I don’t think you’re going to have a whole lot of a problem.
Another one is pushing the string down behind the nut. You play a note, take your other hand, go back behind the nut on the same string and push that string down.This raises the tension of the string.
The next thing we’re going to start talking about something that there’s a lot of confusion about, and that’s these two words:Vibrato and Tremolo.And one of the big reasons it’s so confusing is because of Fender. They got it backward. If you look
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