I’m a professional violist who recently changed my set up and my vibrato now feels like a foreign thing! The opening of your video reminded me and helped me align my thoughts in a way that will eventually bring me back to full vibrato health. Thanks so much for this! PS I pressed subscribe

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, you made my day! So glad i could help!

Great teacher. Mahalo

Thank you for this teaching , very helpful.

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

That’s great, thanks for watching!

Very help full methods. Thank goodness

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy you found it helpful! Thanks!

Wow. Excellent.

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David!

Very helpful. Thank you!

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks for watching!

Very informative! Thank You so much in sharing your insights and practice technique! Very helpful!

@robjazzviolin

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, I’m so happy you found it helpful!

I started playing the violin as an adult from a few years ago. There are very interesting lessons in this channel that can greatly improve my playing. I joined! 👍

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

By far the best tutorial video about doing violin vibrato as a beginner I've watched. Godbless your channel and yes pls pray for my progress!🎻

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Arianne! Thanks for watching! You have know idea how happy it makes me that you have found this video so helpful! Best of luck to you!

I always appreciate when teachers stress the natural and body - friendly movements. So I am staying with you too😀

@robjazzviolin

Жыл бұрын

That’s great Andrea, thank you!

Thank you!

@robjazzviolin

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Kay!

65 year-old learning violin. I’ve watched many things on vibrato. Yours so far is the most helpful. Thank you!

@robjazzviolin

Жыл бұрын

That’s great, glad you found it helpful Todd!

Very good vibrato lesson! 👍

@robjazzviolin

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for watching John!

Gracias.

Wow, your lecture helped me a lot. While watching all, I practiced vibrato repeatedly with my fingers. I support you. I will often see your lectures and get a lot of help.

@robjazzviolin

3 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy you found it helpful! Thanks for your support!

thanks. it helps me a lot.

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy you found it helpful! Happy practicing!

i love your teaching style

@robjazzviolin

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert!

Thank you so much for this. I have arthritis beginning to affect one finger. your video shows how I can use it in more than one way.

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so happy the video was helpful to you!

10:18 as a beginner of 6 weeks i was starting to despair of making a breakthrough with my vibrato tempo but i think that's the insight i needed. it's not just the fatigue reduction - it also helps me with producing an even, fluid motion at higher tempos. Nice one !

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! That detail about lightening the pressure on the way down changed my life and I’m happy it’s helping you!

@fedegroxo

10 ай бұрын

I'm starting to learn vibrato close to two years into my violin journey. In my opinion it's better to wait until having an overall cleaner sound before venturing into vibrato, but if you can make progress this early that's good. I'd like to know where you are now and if you've managed to make progress

I'm your 210 subscriber.. all the best

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much. I think this is the besr video ive come across to learn víbrato. It just seems so dofficult to loosen up. You r exactly right about not being able to do vibrato, wheñ u léave the side of your index finger resting on the violin. Free is the wórd we must remember or we"ll sound like cats fighting Thank you very much; i also appreciate that u dont speak in a hurry and that ú dloseups to teach rhe çoncepts. One questión .. is there súch a thing as harmonics on a violin???

That's a very detailed video. One that is very helpful. One question I have. How to stop my violin moving or shaking when I move my arm for the vibrato. Thanks

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Rattan, I’m so happy the video was helpful. There will inevitably be a little bit of shaking of the violin. The important thing is that it doesn’t disrupt the contact point between bow and string. Here are some tips for minimizing the shake: 1) focus the vibrato at the fingertip. Strive to do the smallest vibrato motion that will give you the most fingertip oscillation. 2) support the violin with your left thumb so your index finger can be free. If your index finger is stuck to the neck of the violin, the violin will move with your vibrato motion and you won’t get much vibrato. The only contact points should be the fingertip you’re vibrating with and the thumb. 3) examine your setup and make sure you’re able to steady the violin with your shoulder rest and chin rest without any unnecessary tension. Hold the scroll up so the violin comes to you. 4) try this: put a sock on your scroll and rest the violin between your neck and the wall so you don’t have to support the violin. Practice vibrating with all your fingers this way to get that feeling of freedom 5) be flexible at all your joints. Scan your left arm/hand for any tightness around the joints, including the three fingers you’re not using. Wow, I think you’ve inspired me to make a video on the subject!

This video was very helpful and I was able to feel the difference after watching this, it's helped me a lot. Once again thanks a lot!

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

Thank you for this excellent lesson!!! As a beginner, I am having difficulty with vibrato. One issue I have is my bow movement follows the oscillating left hand...how do you achieve bow/left hand independence?

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jack, thanks for watching! While you’re vibrating with left hand, focus your eyes on the contact point between the bow and string. Focus on keeping the bow speed, pressure, and distance from the bridge all constant. Let me know if that helps. If not I might have some other things you can try.

Hello my friend, I enjoyed your video 😍 I keep in touch to keep a good meeting with you 🥂 See you again 😘SB 👌👊 👍3

Thank you! Now I want to know when does one use the movement from the elbow which makes the hand/fingers rock to and fro? I don't want to rely on my wrist to do the rocking as my fingers has bad arthritis - the arm from the elbow should move my fingers backward and back to pitch again?

@robjazzviolin

Жыл бұрын

Hi Eugenie, thanks for watching! Yes, using a forearm motion at the elbow is great to achieve the oscillation of the fingertip if that’s what works for you. I hope that answers your question!

@eugenievanzyl

Жыл бұрын

@@robjazzviolin thank you!!!

Muchas gracias. k.arg.

@robjazzviolin

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Which is better...getting arthritic deformiries on the left vs the right?

nice

The problem I'm having is maintaining a smooth bowing action while truying to move the wrist on my left hand, it's like my brain is saying it's one or the other.

@robjazzviolin

8 ай бұрын

Hi Richard! Try bowing on an open string while fingering a note or notes with vibrato on a different string. This will teach your hands to be independent and focus on getting a smooth and even sound on the open string. Let me know if that helps!

@richardgodlove9662

8 ай бұрын

@@robjazzviolin I'll try that, thank you.

10:30 top

Thank you for sharing this. It looked so easy when watching various tips on practicing vibrato, but when I try to imitate it, it didn't feel right. My left hand doesn't want to move. It just wants to sit on the string 😟😟

@robjazzviolin

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Was the video helpful? Are you still having trouble getting your vibrato to work the way you want?

@RigelMarie

Жыл бұрын

@@robjazzviolin You're welcome 🙂 I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, though. Vibrato was introduced to me a few weeks ago, so my expectations may be way too unrealistic for my level (fast speed). Maybe start at the slowest speed and gain momentum after getting comfortable with it? 🤔

Excuse me, May I ask you something? How to create Vibrato with short fingers ? Is creating vibrato also depens on the fingers ( long or short fingers) ? Thank you so much.

@robjazzviolin

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your question! Every violinist has to develop a way of playing that works for their particular body type and physical attributes. For vibrato, what’s important is the the oscillation of the fingertip that changes the pitch. How you get that oscillation is an individual thing. Be flexible and use your senses. Use the exercises in the video as a starting point, and adapt them for your hand.

@brothergusty

2 жыл бұрын

@@robjazzviolin Thank you so much Martin, I want to try the methods that you have taught or shared with me in this video. I love to learn and practice about Vibrato. You know, I am new beginner in learning to play violin. Again, Thank you so much Martin.

I learned violin as an older adult, but no matter what I do, I cannot get vibrato. I am frustrating my teacher.

@robjazzviolin

7 ай бұрын

Hello! Thanks for watching! There’s a couple things I don’t like about your comment. The first thing is, you need a new teacher if your teacher is getting frustrated with you as an older adult trying to learn vibrato. You can only do what you can do, and what you can do is enough! Maybe you can learn to produce and beautiful tone without vibrato, and that’s ok! The other thing I don’t like about your comment is your mindset. Rather than saying “no matter what I do I can’t get vibrato,” say “I can’t do vibrato YET.” You could also say, “I can express myself on the violin without vibrato, and that’s ok and it’s beautiful.” We all have limitations, whether we’re professionals who’ve been playing our whole lives, or adults who start later in life. Embrace your limitations and see the beauty in what you can do.

@Shrinksjp

7 ай бұрын

Perhaps it is my perception that she has gotten frustrated. If I continue to experience this, I will have a conversation with her. I never expected to get as far as I have gotten, at the end of Suzuki book 6, and I can play shorter pieces quite well. Thanks for the input. @@robjazzviolin

At first, you showed the bending, collapsing of the finger tip with the movement of your arm, indicating an arm vibrato. Then later you showed it using the movement of your wrist. These are two different kinds of vibrato technique. I think a beginner students will be quite confused. They should not be learned at the same time. The student should start with one kind of vibrato. After they have completely mastered it, they can explore other kind of vibrato including wrist vibrato assisted by arm.

@robjazzviolin

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! I respect your opinion.

@CTP8585

4 ай бұрын

@@robjazzviolin Thank You for the reply. I would like to share with you my learning experience of the vibrato. I studied with two Galamian students in the past. Both of them used a slightly different approach in executing the vibrato. When they taught me, they all used exactly the same method. At first, start with the wrist vibrato at the 3rd position, 2nd finger.. IF the student cannot stop the motion in the arm right below the wrist, then make the wrist touching the violin body to ensure rigidity of the arm. Rotate the tip of the finger backward. After the student has secured and feel very comfortable to play music with this kind of wrist vibrato, introduce the student to ARM vibrato. In both vibrato, the student must learn to increase and decrease the speed of the vibrato and also changing from narrow to wider vibrato and from wide to narrow. Simply speaking the student can change the intensity of the vibrato together with crescendo and decrescendo. After the student has also secured a good ARM vibrato, have the student adding ARM vibrato to the wrist vibrato when more intensity is needed. In this case, the student would have the flexibility of using the arm vibrato to add a more intensive vibrato to the wrist vibrato. One may say wrist vibrato can be more intensive too. However, the EFFECT is different when the wrist vibrato is assisted by the arm. At this point, it will be the student 's decision and experiment of what kind of vibrato desired. When I listen to a violinist with a CONSTANT VIBRATO STYLE, SUCH AS SAME SPEED, SAME width, same intensity THROUGH OUT THE MUSIC, TO ME, this kind of playing is VERY BORING. A good vibrato is to add color and emotional feeling to the music. Violinist Irvy Gitlis greatly used his VIBRATO skill to enhance his tone. Modern violinist Nicola Benedetti also uses a variety of vibrato skill in interpreting her music. One must read Galamian's book called Principles of Violin PLaying and Teaching, ( Prentice Hall ) and his student SIMON Fischer's book called BASICS ( 300 exercises and practice routines for the violin, Edition Peters). Thank You for reading.

@robjazzviolin

4 ай бұрын

I also studied with a couple of Galamian students. One of them told me, “there’s more than one way to get to San Francisco.”

@CTP8585

4 ай бұрын

@@robjazzviolin HAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U are great wish i can contact u