Don't get discouraged I played 5 of 6 years before my teacher even brought up vibrato.

@peepeepoopoo3339

5 жыл бұрын

It's my 3rd year playing and my teacher is already urging us by 2 :,)

@purplekitten3971

5 жыл бұрын

My teacher hasn’t mentioned it for 8 years hence i finally gave up and decided to teach it to myself

@blurra.a1634

5 жыл бұрын

Addison Winward - it’s my 4th year and we have a vibrato project now

@Jleed989

5 жыл бұрын

I think a student should begin right away in learning the rudiments or the wrist/hand motions of vibrato. Don’t make it some mysterious and advanced technique for the gifted. It’s not that difficult to develop a basic vibrato which can be improved upon as time goes by.

@TheOnlineViolinTutor

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jleed989 A beginner should not attempt vibrato for at least a year as the basics need to settle in. I do not agree with teachers not teaching it until many years after they start as I agree with you, that it is something they should learn closer to the beginning, so that by the time they can play more intermediate and upwards music, the vibrato will have developed nicely. However, attempting it before at least a year can be damaging to the basics as they must be learned and settle in first - which only time can do, as you cant accelerate time.

The thing is I try hard for like 2 days and then I get lazy...i annoy myself

@HaHa-uq1nd

6 жыл бұрын

Don't worry. You'll get it eventually.

@Koku16-hl9ht

2 ай бұрын

Dya get it?

Today I tried vibrato seriously, and it's a bit tiring. I can't go very fast yet as it sounds inconsistent and is hard to keep up with, but I can go slower for a little longer (except that naturally I want to go faster). I did it on scales, bits of songs I know, and on single notes with the second and third fingers as I found those easier to start. It's hard for me to vibrato on the G and D strings though, but I'll get there ;) And yes I've played for a year (can't believe it -time flies!).

@aliamahmoud1200

2 жыл бұрын

that was me before, but with more practice you’ll eventually get used to it! it’s like learning not to collapse your wrist lol

Me: **Has been playing for 2 weeks** Her: "Wait until you have been playing for at least a year before you attempt vibrato." Me: **picking up violin** "No, I don't think I will."

@geekynewz

2 жыл бұрын

That's me right now! Thanks Alison for the great lesson!

@pedroE657

2 жыл бұрын

Fr

@LuisFernandoMataPsC

2 жыл бұрын

I see I'm not the only one!

@ramdomgal5050

2 жыл бұрын

Same 🤣 I mean I focus on the basics first but allow myself sometime to try advanced things for a bit. It makes practice fun

@StrataGX

2 жыл бұрын

Your not the only one but at minimum you need those basics or it's going to hold you back. I'm there along with you but if we waste our trip me doing stuff we are not ready for we are missing out on all the good practice we could be getting instead. I'm focused on doing my scales and and I'm going to put vibrato on hold till I'm more ready. In the mean time I'm going to look at what she suggested. I don't agree with the year thing tho cause it's all dependent on how much you practice. If you practice for 30 min everyday for a year and another does 2 or 3 hours or more every day obviously the other person will be ready quicker.

Undoubtedly it is the best and clearest explanation for achieving the vibrato, with the addition of seeing the most beautiful eyes of the extraordinary teacher. God bless you, José Luis, from Argentina.

Thanks. This is my fourth year of playing (albeit inconsistently). I started at about 47. I’ve been attempting to practice vibrato on and off for the last two years but always give up. I have decided to persist and crack it this year. So far, I’ve been trying consistently for about a fortnight and I’m happy to say that it doesn’t sounds completely awful anymore. So thanks Alison. You’re right. I will keep plugging away every day. I am determined. 2020 - My year of vibrato!

@quepasamaestrooo2023

Жыл бұрын

hey, how are you doing with your vibrato?

@coolbluebm1354

5 ай бұрын

My year of vibrato tanked a bit. Covid happened and life fell apart a bit, but I’m back in the game now and rewatching.

@coolbluebm1354

5 ай бұрын

Sorry, same person. Different username.

Vibrato has always been difficult for me. I’ve been playing for 5 years now and I still can’t get it 😂

Thank you so much for your tutorials! I played the violin for 6 years from elementary to high school and "cheated" on my vibrato by performing with "finger" vibrato which my teachers never corrected. I am now 26 and have since come back to the violin and am having to completely re-train my hands' muscle memory. While it is painful and mind numbing to relearn my technique, your videos are making it much simpler than it would have been! Long story short= Practice, practice, practice the CORRECT technique and save yourself a lot of wasted time! Thank you for your enthusiasm and instruction!

Hi Alison, I just wanted to say that I've seen your other vibrato videos, and you're the only one who actually helped me learn. I've seen hundreds of other vibrato videos but none of them really explained properly what I had to do. Thanks to your videos I learnt the vibrato in a day (I know it sounds unbelievable but it's true) You're a really awesome violin tutor, and I just wanted to thank you for making these awesome videos.

@ClassPunkOnRumbleAndSubstack

6 жыл бұрын

I believe it. Its an Asian.

@ClassPunkOnRumbleAndSubstack

6 жыл бұрын

"Thanks to your videos I learnt the vibrato in a day (I know it sounds unbelievable but it's true) " I believe it because you are Asian.

@maddierblx5254

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClassPunkOnRumbleAndSubstack lol

I am a bit intimidated but I’m obsessed with getting this right where I’m even dreaming about it lol. Thank you so much for your teachings. I love your style👏

This video made me finally realise why it's called rock n roll 9:12

Wow thanks! I have been playing violin for 9 years now (I’m only a kid) and I’ve always done vibrato diagonally.. But now, I can do it correctly and I’m going to work very hard to improve it!

I love your teaching, you make it fun and exciting, I've been playing for just over 9 months and at 62 years old soon to be 63 in august I'm like a kid in a candy store.

This is the way I started learning vibrato but recently I was watching others teach it with their thumb on the side and rolling the finger forward and back (rather than sided to side). I was beginning to think maybe I should relearn it. Thanks for the reassurance that I am on the right track!

Thank you so much! I finally got the main concept of vibrato after watching tons of other videos, and I'm required to have it down by the time I audition for the top orchestra in my school. The tip about turning your wrist around and using the top of your finger helped in particular!

I really appreciate the help. I've been playing for 6 years and I've gotten into a bad habit because I've been doing vibrato side to side rather than moving up and down and it has caused the correction process to be very difficult. Every time I attempt to do it the right way, it feels like I'm doing it wrong. And now it just sounds bad whenever I try to do vibrato. But I'll keep practicing. Thanks for this video. It's helped a lot more than any other videos I've seen.

@sinnielee4087

4 жыл бұрын

What!!!

Thank you, Alison, for the honest, and direct advice. I have only been playing Violin, coming onto 3 months, now. I am happy to hear, I shouldn't be thinking about Vibrato, for a long while, yet. I do love the effect, when a good player uses it...it just seems well beyond me, for now. You saying it...makes me feel better about it, now...

this really helped, I used to think I had to move my wrist forward and back for vibrato now I know its to the side which really helped me. Thank you Alison.

Wonderfully done video. And I appreciate your realistic expectations. We aren't meant to get it over night, and that is encouraging. With consistent work, I believe I will get it! Thank you!

Very good advice, nice updated video. I'll put my two bobs worth in as it may help some people... As an adult beginner, I also struggled for a long time. I started with wrist vibrato, but would get violin shake, and wrist moving erratically, first joints of fingers hardly moving, etc. Then progress stagnated. If you are the same, I suggest trying arm vibrato, & persevere with it for six months. Initially it feels harder, takes more energy, harder to keep your thumb in same place, & plenty of violin shake. Whats it does is forces the first joints of all fingers to move, the wrist to move slightly, the thumb to be kept in same place, & all arm/hand joints will be learning to have a smooth movement. But, when you return to wrist vibrato, it will be much easier. You must be patient & stick with it, sometimes you have to attack a problem from a different angle. For some, vibrato comes alot easier, others like me, have to try a different approach. Also, as a bonus, you'll have two vibrato techniques which you can use depending on the sound you want. :) Anyway, that's my experience.

The distance from one note to the next, whether it be a whole note or even a half-note is so insanely close that when the fleshy tip of your finger "rocks or rolls" in either direction, the pitch changes quite drastically compared to any other stringed instrument. Understanding this really helped me with vibrato. I think that people who have been playing stringed instruments for a lifetime will have a little easier time with vibrato than those who are just beginning with the violin as their first musical instrument. Also, whether or not you have developed your "ear" or if you have "perfect pitch".. this will also help with time consumption. Although a guitarist technically does not use "vibrato" (even though a lot of guitarists do NOT know the difference between 'vibrato' and 'tremelo').. I do believe that highly developed fingers and wrists, forearms, etc., are really going to give you an advanced 'edge' ~ at the same time, this particular joint of the finger is rarely isolated on the guitar, so essentially, you will be learning how to use another joint/muscle group that you have really never used before. I practice vibrato every day, all throughout the day. Sometimes I don't even pick up the violin. I just find something to place my fingers correctly and then take the eraser end of a pencil and push that joint of the tip of my finger in and out so that it really gets some 'muscle memory' built up. It may sound stupid, but when I do pick up the violin, I feel like I've already been practicing my vibrato. Unless you are one of those 'double-jointed" people that can extend your fingers and only bend the tips of them (which looks really cool) you will never really have felt the need to use these muscles. Not in typing, keyboard playing, guitar playing... basically nothing. This is why I feel that the violin is so unique. It really seem like the violin was made for total usage of the hand and every muscle in the hand and this is what makes it so difficult. Add in your bowing technique and all of it's nuances it becomes very easy to see why people become so discouraged with trying to learn the violin. It is certainly the MOST difficult stringed instrument for a human to play, but the rewards of consistency and perseverance far surpass the difficult path to its mastery. Great guitarists (IMO) are a 'dime-a-dozen' ~ OTOH, great violinists are a rare species.

Hi This is Ravi from India. I never thought i would get a video that actually teaches you vibrato untill i found this. Really appreciate and thankful, since we dont have many choices here in India to learn from. Regards

I started playing the violin 2 or 3 month s ago but kinda give up ‘cus I couldn’t do the vibrato correctly (i know the basics already) and it kinda discouraged me. This video is very informative and makes me want to play the violin again. I learned almost all of I know from the videos you made. Thank you so much!!

This woman is fabulous and no nonsense. I love British accents too :) you inspired me to buy a violin again a twenty year hiatus and here I am practicing!!!

You and my teacher are exactly the same and she taught me the wrist vibrato and I didn't know there's an arm vibrato Lol! I'm gonna combine your technique and hers. Your also right that you have to do vibrato constantly to able to do it and I've been doing it every time I play and I'm getting there. Thanks 🙃

@dimaaa4089

3 жыл бұрын

was it easy learning the wrist vibrato how long did it take? I have been playing violin for almost 7/8 years i havent learned vibrato yet xD.

I've been playing the violin for 7 years, been trying to properly vibrato for about 4-5 years. To anyone thinking it's hard, it is hard. D: My problem is that I tense my whole arm when I vibrato when it's supposed to be nice and loose. My orchestra teacher, who isn't a violinist, tries to help me but it's easier to vibrato on a cello (the instrument she plays) vs a violin/viola. ^^; My private violin teacher is now helping me work up to my vibrato skills and told me to start looking through KZread videos and online tutorials outside of practice to get a feel for what vibrato is supposed to be. So far, the way you explain is MUCH better than my orchestra teacher! Now let's see if I can get my vibrato to not be so tense.

Love your violin videos Alison. Your tuition has helped me improve my violin skills immensely. Thank you.

I workout every day... and when I started violin and was working on vibrato....the next morning my bicep felt like it had been annihilated. Obviously you are a great teacher. I'm just... impatient

@cs908

4 жыл бұрын

Mine feels like that, too! Is this normal, or am I tensing up too much in my upper arm?

In every video about learning the violin I go to the comments and search for: This helped me a lot, so I know if this will work for me or not, just me? Okay.

Muchas gracias. Greatings from Mexico. I strugle with vibrato for five years but I saw a video Julia Bushkova at her Violinclass chanel and it was excelent. I finally begin to do progress with my vibrato, wrist vibrato is the best vivrato. However your vibrato video helps me also.

I love this channel I fixed a lot of mistakes I was making thanks ❤️

Her background tho 😍😍💖

Perhaps the best tutorial on vibrato on the internet.

Great thorough lesson ! Love the rocking... rolling... pendulum explanation! P.S. love the background lighting....simple but elegant!

I've been playing a month and i can make dying whale sounds +^_^+ I know you said wait a year, but in the privates of my home, where nobody hears dying whales, i try anyway...

@nathanclifford3158

4 жыл бұрын

I mean...i STARTED 2years ago...and then took a1.5 year break... so...time to start :3

@metadata5760

3 жыл бұрын

And, have you progressed?

Ma'am your teaching style is really amazing 😍😍. Since childhood I always wanted to learn violin. I was never confident that I will be able to learn it myself. It's all because of you ma'am I am able to learn it is a very efficient way. Thank you sooo much ❤️

Wow , really amazing tips and guidance , thank you so so much .. please publish more ... I don't have any teacher for learning. Your videos are really helpful for me .

Hi Allison, thank you. With this video now, I think I've got the right move for my finger. I can do it even a little bit faster but just stationary. I hope this is it all begins.

@12:55 can you please also show tutorial of vibrato but using the index finger at the e string first fret? i'm struggling there especially during upstroke.

I was going on a wrong way of vibrato.But after watching your video I got the right way.Thank you sooo much dear teacher 👍👍😍😍😍😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤

thanks ive been trying consistently for 2 months just to get the basic vibrato on one note. No progress for weeks though ... glad its not just me was getting quite demoralised

This is a great video and has put me on the right track !!! Thanks very much !

Wow looking good alison

11:00 Me at 14 and then shoves the violin in the closet, and then 12 years later works at it for 4 months every day and finally now is getting the hang of it. Thank you Alison, for helping me rekindle my love for the violin :)

I was really upset I can't do vibrato properly. After hearing your explanation, all my worries disappeared. Newbie aspiring violinist here. 😊

I can officially start vibrato in November! Thank you for this! :)

Seen lots of videos (like 15 or so), all of them gave me 0, or almost any additional progress. Yours did! Even thoe i understand I have to polish the basics, I can now manage to understand it and so work on it. Thank yu!

I like your lession very much. It's a hight quality. Thank you .

Ok, I am still gonna do vibrato even though i have not been playing for a year, I am one of the more advanced people in my school orchestra and I wanna learn vibrato so imma learn it, and I dont care if people say I cant do it cause I will.

@peagames2002

4 жыл бұрын

Don't give up! You'll feel really proud once you begin to get the hang of it with the vibrato! :D

Thank you, the up close footage is super helpful.

Iam learning violin through online,this one is a perfectionist on teaching.thank you⚘

But during that first year or so of playing without vibrato, I was touching the neck with the side of the first finger, which i will have to unlearn to to avoid shaking the instrument.when using vibrato.

You've helped me so much honestly.

*I Always Watched Your Video Since I don't Have a Violin Because I Play Piano But Now That I'm Learning Violin You Helped me so much to Understand now You have A Sub.*

She’s a great teacher 👍. I watched a lot of video on how to do a vibrato and none like her explains well. In fact after watching a lot of tutorials with various styles and techniques it overwhelmed med, ending up doing my own style (unconsciously), sort of like pressing the strings rapidly which of course made my violin shake. The worst part is that i’ve been practicing it for about a week already. One thing I’m reluctant to consider is that she said anyone below a year of experience of playing violin should not do a vibrato, its just that I think it won’t contradict any of my learning process for as long as I do it slowly but surely, nevertheless if someone explains to me that it would harm my learning process I still might consider it.

oh my god i watch 5 video and i was going to cry but I saw your video and now I'm glad to learn this practice finally

Dear Alison, thanks so much, that's really very very very helpful. Even if it will mean I have to wait another 6 Months....very understanding, competent violin teacher

thanks a lot for this💓💓💓

Oh my gosh thank you this helped make it make sense! I physically couldn't do it with how off mt thumb placement was, and this helped correct the problem. Once I've gotten used to holding it differently with my thumb underneath, I plan to come back and learn how to do vibrato! :D

Alison has a lovely vibrato!

Finally. A useful vibrato tutorial.

@TheOnlineViolinTutor

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

My name is Maddy. I have been playing the violin since kindergarten and I am in 6th grade right now. This is a really good video.

Very well demonstrated!! Thank you so much.

Hello, I've been trying to teach myself a wrist vibrato from your videos and they have really helped! I'm slowly but surely getting there! However, I noticed that the muscle in my upper left arm is sore, almost like I've been lifting weights, and I'm wondering if it's because I'm subconsciously tensing up. Is this normal and me just getting used to it, or do I need to make sure I'm not tensing up? Thank you!

You are great teacher.

I have literally just gotten a violin, I play several instruments, none of which would I consider myself "pro" but perhaps intermediate on all. I ha e been watching your Videos for almost a week now. I especially love your sincerity and Honesty, and what I should expect of myself. I know violin will be by far my biggest challenge yet. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful talent, and taking my journey one slow step at a time. The biggest thing I ha e learned so far, is that this is NOT a guitar on ANY level. Haha. Wow what an instrument. The whole tuning peg verses tuning key was a huge eye opener of the challenge I just took on. The violin I chose to start with is an Aklot student violin. I did a review, which technically means nothing because I don't know what a good violin is. Would you consider reviewing this brand?

This really helped, thank you!

Thank you so much you did so much to us and I learnt so much from your lessons 😃❤

I’ve played violin for 3 years and I think it’s time I know how to do this

Thank you so much , I went from being a nightmare to a bad dream lol which means there’s improvements. 🙏🏼

I've missed your intro haven't heard it in awhile

@eybooo

5 жыл бұрын

SUBSCRIBE .....

Thank you for your teaching, I'm learning much from you techniques....😎

i think this might be the tutorial that actually helps me vibrato, merci beaucoup

❤ Alison. Thank you for the encouragement

Hi, Alison! I have a question. I have played guitar for many years and I'm just starting to learn to play the violin. Would you say that having prior experience on another (however different) stringed instrument would give me an advantage as far as speeding up the learning curve? I don't want to rush anything by any means. I understand and have a newfound respect the amount of time it takes to even get the fundamentals right. Any thoughts? Thank you so much for your instruction. :) You are my favorite KZread teacher. You are *THE* online piano & violin tutor!

@TheOnlineViolinTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, if you play any other instrument it will help as you will know the music/theory side of things and you can then concentrate on learning how to play the instrument itself.

@normanfreund

6 жыл бұрын

I have been playing the guitar for many years and can easily do vibrato on it, now learning the violin for two years (with a twenty year break inbetween) and find vibrato on the violin to be totally different - still trying to figure it out. Thanks Alison for the video.

Hi d Ur lesson s very very clear and focusing of vibrato motion is perfect. Love Ur class and hope I ll b perfect within 3 - 6 months lol😍😍

She is lovely teacher🤗🌹

This has really helped me !!

I especially liked your guidance that with 3-6 months of continued work, vibrato could be achieved. Like others, I started amd worked a few days then stopped because of the sad whale sounds, but I am going to give it a good, sustained try again!

Ive been playing for over 5 years now and i still cant ☠️☠️

You teach very well❤

This is a great video.. i've just gone through about 30 others and yours is the best for showing exactly how the hand should be placed on the violin. ONE QUESTION. in virtually all the other videos, they don't do the roll from nail to nail thing They flatten the first finger joint to hit that lower pitch. As soon as they start vibrating at a faster frequency, it ends up looking more like a roll, because i imagine its not easy to flip that finger joint so quickly. Is there a reason why you show the roll-the-finger-from-nail-to=nail method rather than collapsing the finger at the first joint ? thanks

@TheOnlineViolinTutor

6 жыл бұрын

I don’t know - it must be them, or that they do arm vibrato whereas I do and teach wrist vibrato. Both are essentially the same with the same outcome, but one will naturally learn towards one way or the other. For me, it’s wrist. Whatever you do, I would say choose one video/reference/teacher etc and stick with it rather than videoing hoping about as each person will vary slightly in their technique and explanation which will probably end up hindering you more than helping you.

3 years strong and i think i’m ready! it would make my nyssma solo (level 3) sound a lot nicer....

Thanks for the tips!!!

Tqvm my dearest Alison for the good tutorial

Thank you once again Miss for vibrato video🎻

Great advice, tips and encouragement ☺️ in fact you've given me ideas how to annoy my neighbours in summer 🤣🤣🤣

Most helpful video thanks !!

Thank you, Allison. I played for about free years as a child. I'm watching your vibrato video. You say play violin for a year before attempting vibrato. Is that your suggestion when coming back to violin to wait and get all the basics back and then try vibrato?

@TheOnlineViolinTutor

6 жыл бұрын

If you look under the video there is a link to a video that gives you a sort of 'checklist' as to when you should start. its called When Should I Start Vibrato or something similar.

Thank you, that was helpful.

Tysm for this I’ve been playing when I was 6-13 and now I’m doing street performances

Making an instruction video about vibrato is challenging, as this skill screams for personal instruction. But this video well covers the attendant issues.

@EgoShredder

6 жыл бұрын

Vibrato is also a very personal thing, and defines who you are and the way you "speak" in the music sense.

This video shows you placing your left thumb directly under the neck of the violin (to support the violin, I'm sure) but it seems that most people learn to initially play with the neck resting between the thumb and index finger. Do you intentionally shift your thumb under the neck to create vibrato, then shift back to continue playing, or do you always play that way? I'm having difficulty playing in tune when I keep my thumb under the neck.

@TheOnlineViolinTutor

6 жыл бұрын

I play and teach that way. Some teachers teach with the thumb as you explain. In that case you may benefit from learning arm vibrato instead.

Thanks for knowledge miss.. Godbless you.. warm greeting from Indonesia

this was excellent! helped me to finally get vibrato! woohoo :)

Hey Alison I've been watching your videos for a little more than a year now. I just want to say thankyou because you helped me choose what violin to buy and all these videos are really helpful. There are a lot of violin tutorials but I find that yours are the most helpful; that's why I subscribed. I've been playing for about a year now. Recently I haven't been practicing, it just seems kind of boring now. I don't really feel motivated to but I don't want to give up because all those lesson my parents payed for; it just seems like a waste. I'm not sure if I should keep on going or stop. I wanted to be good violin player like you I've told myself that. I was amazed because you're so fukin good. I don't know anymore though what im suppose to do. So I was wondering if you could give me some words of wisdom lol

@TheOnlineViolinTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps its what you are playing that is not motivating you - I usually find when students lose their 'mojo' its usually due to the music. Decide what music you like and want to play, then find some for your level. I have a lot of easy stuff on my Patreon page and you can also request for me to write out and arrange pieces into easy versions: www.patreon.com/theonlinepianotutor Not only that, but there are hundreds of pieces of sheet music available there. Take a look and any questions about it, just ask.

@wendee5116

6 жыл бұрын

The Online Piano and Violin Tutor Thank you I'll do that and see how it goes:)

Great explanation!

Thank-you! Brilliant.

Will you please post the checklist that you mention in the video? Thank you!

I've been playing for 4 years now, this is my 5th and I need to start doing vibrato, I've been cheating with my finger and I can't to do that anymore.