Vibrato Technique

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hi everybody and welcome to this tutorial on vibrato. This tutorial is the next step on from the previous string bending tutorial. I like to think of vibrato technique as essentially a different form of string bending in that they are both a manipulation of pitch for expressive means. Vibrato tends to be a repeated oscillation of the pitch as opposed to st...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: The next logical step is to take the basic principal we talked about in the previous video and apply it across all 6 strings. We are going to start with the 6th string at the 5th fret and we will do the semi-tone bend using a downward movement starting with the 1st finger. Please remember to use the whole wrist when you are applying vibrato. It is NOT a mov...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now we are going to have a look at a technique which I consider to be a very difficult one. What we are going to do is apply a string bend to a fretted note and then apply vibrato whilst holding the bend at the target note. This can present some difficulty as it does require a lot of control to do effectively but I have found that once you understand what y...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So far we have only looked at the standard blues-rock style vibrato. There are other techniques that we can use to manipulate the pitch and while I very rarely use anything other than the standard vibrato technique, it is well worth experimenting with others as you may find an opportunity to use them to spice up your playing a little. The first one we are g...

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