first week it was like nothing happens but now it sounds a little bit like vibrato, thanks ben! awesome lesson! :-D
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Thanks a lot Guys :-))
I'm always talking about the importance of a 'well-built' cool sounding vibrato.
You are doing a very good work on this topic
Really nice lesson! Can't wait for the next parts:)
sideways vibratos are something one first learns on guitar. Nice topic
Very cool lesson Ben!
Welcome!
Very interesting lesson about vibrato. Good job!
This is a very useful topic, and very cool way of doing vibrato, great first lesson man!
Your dad built it? That's really awesome!
Thank you so much guys !!
Amazing 1rst lesson, welcome to GMC
Nice! i should do this. I have trouble with vibrato - but i'd say it's more around 2 difficulty - but heck, whado I know? Thanks for this lesson!
Great lesson!
This is one of THE most beautiful guitars I saw in last 2 years, spectacular!
Great technique man. Very good lesson
Now, that's cool !
Thanks Ben and welcome to GMC !
Thanks so much guys.. I'm honoured to be in your company and I'm looking forward to learning from yourselves as well !
Excellent topic Ben, welcome once again!
cool lesson man, and welcome
Great vibrato lesson, welcome to GMC!
Fantastic lesson with great melody! Welcome Ben!!!
Great 1st lesson on a very important topic! Welcome to GMC!
Welcome Ben!!! Is a pleasure man! This is a super great mega ultra first lesson .... is so interesting! I'm eager to see the lessons to come!
very nice first lesson man!, welcome to gmc!
I dont even really comment on lessons anymore but I love this.
Great 1st lesson Ben! Fantastic usage of vibrato in a solo context
Thank you everybody.. I'm really pleased you've enjoyed it and share my belief in the importance of vibrato ! Any questions at all, always feel free to ask ! Thanks again :-)
Great first lesson & technique, Ben !
Perfect lesson - man! I wanna go home and pick my guitar up NOW!!! Thanks for this!
great idea....i recomend this lesson to all GMC students...
wow.. how do you do that side by side vibrato.. its just amazing.. need to learn this. never knew this existed. great lesson ben!
excelent first lesson man, very important tip and thing to keep in mind, good vibrato technique it´s always the door that opens your heart, remember that!!
This was a very needed lesson - I really like how it only focuses on vibrato and nothing else. Spoken instructions where very inspiring as well. Excellent first lesson Ben - welcome again to GMC! =D
Ben's intro thread can be found here.
Hi everybody and welcome to my first lesson at GMC !
This is part 1 in a small series of lessons focusing on vibrato and this time, we're taking a look at Classical style Vibrato. This vibrato is achieved by moving your fingers from side to side, rather than up and down. It can be quite tricky to get right.. and it will take a bit of work to get it to sound very effective.. but when you do, you'll be glad you put the effort in !
One great thing about this type of vibrato is that it enables you to put more expression into notes that otherwise may be difficult to add vibrato to... notes on the high E string, for example, where it is difficult to use the standard 'up & down' type of vibrato as your fingers don't have a lot of room before they slip off the fretboard ! I find that classical style vibrato is most effective on the G,B & high E strings from the 7th fret and upwards. However, please experiment for yourselves and experience the variations with this technique.
Classical style vibrato works best with your 2nd, 3rd & 4th fingers (middle, ring and little fingers)and is practically unachievable with your 1st (index) finger. As you can see from the videos, I use the fingers that are not fretting the note to strengthen, or bolster, the finger that is playing the note. This gives you more of a solid grip on the string and allows for a harder and wider attack. For example, if my 2nd finger is playing the note, then I use my 1st finger to get behind it and give it more 'push'. If my 3rd finger is playing the note, then both my 1st and 2nd fingers are behind it.. and if my 4th finger is playing the note then, you guessed it.... all of my fingers are being used to give strength to my little finger.
The other things I'd like to mention are; please notice how I vary my speed with the vibrato. Even half way through, I might start slower then speed up to add intensity. The other thing is; I don't always add vibrato to a note straight away. You can wait as long as you like before you choose to put some vibrato on. This is where we get our control with our vibrato. We choose how, when and where we use it. This understanding brings us so much more freedom in expression and makes things very exciting indeed !
I hope you have fun experimenting with this technique and that it will lead you to discover some new and exciting possibilites for yourselves !
As always, if you have any questions then please don't hesitate to ask.
So enjoy.... and remember, the only opponent is within !
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