Wide Blues Vibrato, Sore Index Finger |
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Wide Blues Vibrato, Sore Index Finger |
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Nov 24 2011, 09:11 AM
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Denes, I joined to watch your Blues vibrato video. My index finger tends to get sore using this wide vibrato. Is this normal at first?
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Nov 24 2011, 11:21 AM |
I'll try to answer too if possible..
Yes, it's perfectly normal, and it's important to make regular pauses when practicing any type of vibrato, specially a wide one. Be careful, and first focus on doing vibratos in a vicinity of a 12th fret, since the tension is lowest there. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Dec 5 2011, 12:21 PM
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Just so you know where I'm at as a player, I added a link to an mp3 of me playing.
Stevie jam with vintage TS808 Another question: Is the pressure on the tip of the index finger or right below closer to the padded part of the index? Another important question: Should I be using the downward force of my wrist or my forearm? This post has been edited by guitarman001: Dec 5 2011, 12:14 PM |
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Dec 5 2011, 02:28 PM |
Just so you know where I'm at as a player, I added a link to an mp3 of me playing. Stevie jam with vintage TS808 Another question: Is the pressure on the tip of the index finger or right below closer to the padded part of the index? Another important question: Should I be using the downward force of my wrist or my forearm? Wow, thats some sexy playing. You certainly know your way around the blues !! Ok, don't use the very tip of your index finger or you will find that you arch your knuckle joint up higher and then you have almost no power over the string at all. For me, it's the side of the finger. Where we angle our hand sideways, our finger should touch the string with the inside edge closest to the 2nd finger. It may seem weird but that is how people get the wide vibrato For the strength and motion, imagine that your forearm and wrsit is being pulled down and away from you. As you're looking down at your arm and hand, imagine that the outer edge (pinky side) of your fretting hand is moving down (as you pull on the string) and outwards towards the headstock. The great thing about working on vibrato is you can treat it as a series of bends (which is all it is, really.. a series of bends, sped up) so practice bending the string up to a whole tone. It will hurt your finger at first. After a while, practice bending up a whole tone, then release back down to the original pitch then repeat. So what you're doing is slowly perfroming the exact motion that you would be doing when you're performing vibrato. Eventually try doing it with whole tone and a half bends.. however these are generally only workable as you climb higher up the neck and the string tension becomes less. |
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Dec 6 2011, 10:47 AM |
The thing with this vibrato is: it's a technique like any else, it requires practicing with the metronome, and time to get it polished up. Try to work on very slow metronome tempos those consecutive bends, and it will be OK. Once you get the movement down like this, it's time to polish it up in playing. Don't worry and be patient, it will come in time.
-------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
- Check out my GMC Profile and Lessons - (Please subscribe to my) YouTube Official Channel - Let's be connected through ! Facebook! :) |
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Dec 6 2011, 01:05 PM
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agreed.
I would definitely agree and say that it's a very Hendrix type vibrato... quite possibly he was influenced by the BB King finger motion but made it wider and heavier |
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