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  • You sound like arnold schwarzenegger !! :O

  • Great video. Thanks for sharing:)

    Grandma Mary

  • Just so i know. Is bending with acoustic completly useless?

  • @MrRammstein7 No not at all

  • @MrRammstein7 check out Monty Montgomery on youtube to see how a virtuoso plays vibrato on acoustic. enjoy!

  • 5) once you get it you can do it with 2 fingers (middle finger and index finger) or index finger alone in different strings. 6) the vibration comes from the wrist, not from the fingers. Forearm must be very relaxed. An exercise you can do everywhere to get used to this is to close your fist and rotate it clockwise and counter-clockwise as it was a big screwdriver (believe me, this helps!). Vibrato is harder in acoustic guitars because strings have more thickness

  • @vockla thx for the tips!

  • This technique is not as easy as it looks. I suffered thru years until I found the way. I'll give you some recommendations: 1) start doing it with 3 fingers (ring finger in the note, index and middle fingers in the same string will give you more strength). 2) practice it in G-string or B-string between frets 12 and 15 (this area of the fingerboard is easier and softer). 3) start slowly. 4) don't try it while bending or doing chords. Those two are advanced ones, leave them for later.

  • @vockla Why is this easy for me with only one finger?

  • at 0:26 how do u move ur wrist like that.?... i am not able to do that so pls help me

  • you are a terrible teacher

  • why the fuck cant i do it god dammit fuck shit ive been playing guitar for 2 years

  • @Stabiiliize nevermind got i....fuck that was frustrating... you're PULLING not pushing...

  • @Stabiiliize fuck i still dont have it, cant do it with bends so im doing it wrong..

  • @Stabiiliize Ive been playing for 5 years and sill have trouble...

  • D'aww we have the same guitar <3

  • @TokioHotelLeadz I really, really doubt it man xD This is a fender, you're probably rocking some crappy Behringer fake ;P

  • @FreddieMercuryOwns Mine is a Fender too, why-so-jealous?? :)

  • @TokioHotelLeadz I'm sorry, I just can't handle Tokio Hotel. It makes me sick. Doesn't mean you can't like it, that's not for me to say ;)

    It kinda, provokes such reactions inside of me when I read their name. I mean, imagine having to see Bill with your mind's eye, when you think he's the most GAY-ASS DOUCHEBAG in the world.

    I'd rather do Dr. Phil!

  • @FreddieMercuryOwns Hmm.. Opinions my friend, it's okay. I like Bill as much as you like Freddie (obviously) (btw i like Freddie so much too! ^^) so yeah, once again opinions! :)

  • I always do it by bending my fingers, I guess it's slower but I never manage to do it by twisting.

  • I dont know if you did, but maybe you could spend more time on BB. King-wrist wiggle vibrato? I understood there are three types of vib, bend vibrato, violin-up-and-down the string vibrato and finally the wrist-wiggle.

  • Why Is The Vibrato So Hard on Acoustic Guitars ?

  • Well, Im sorry but I dont get it at all... Doesnt work and my teacher cant explain it to me either... he kinda describes it as a lot of very small bendings done in a few seconds... but I dont get how to do that "wrist-turning"-thing if you get what I mean... Can anybody explain it to me?

  • @Volarere relax your wrist, so the small "bendings" are done by the movement of the wrist, and not only by the finger

  • @josemontenegro777 Uhm that sounds good. Im gonna try it out, thanks man

  • @Volarere an exersice I discovered for that is to keep your arm still, and turn your hand from right to lef repeateadly, so the movement is by your wrist, some other people "shake" the guitar body for the vibrato, others have some others techniques, but the relaxed wrist if to me, the most effective and smooth ;)

  • After three years of never bothering to fix my vibrato technique, your excellent wording has made it all fall into place. Specifically, the concept of "letting go" as you mention at 1:04. Thank you.

  • I find it really easy tho.

    what I find hard is to semi-harmonic on the E string /:

    any tips?

    -cheers

  • Fender mustang american vintage!!! uuuuujuuu!!! ^^

  • Nice lesson!

  • correct me if im wrong but its bacially doing a manual wammy?

  • @shankful1 ....that's not the best way to think of it...vibrato is always fast, while the tremolo bar (whammy) doesn't necessarily bend the note back and forth. Thinks of vibrato as a vibration; the note shakes instead of staying even. Tremolo can bend the note down or up, but doesn't necessarily (or often, in my opinion) vibrate.

  • Easy guys, some people will pick up things quicker than others. I could finger tap and sweep pick decently the first time I tried them, but this is definitely harder for me. I think it has a lot to do with your guitar neck, your wrists, and finding a way that works best do you.

  • I dnt get wats so difficult D: i dnt wanna sound like a douche but, from wat i see all u do is basically shake the strings, i do it all da time, and i only been playin for like 2 years, soo someone tell me if im wrong or i dnt get the concept cuz i really wanna learn D:

  • @gh3god129 It might just come easy to you. Usually it is hard to get the form PROPER, but making the strings vibrate is easy enough.

  • @kibbles1053 yea ur right lol i learned more about it today, and its a lil bit difficult xD

  • @gh3god129 I thought it was pretty easy when I first learned. Then I started really concentrating on a proper vibrato, and then it got hard...Gotta get back to practicing...

  • @kibbles1053 exactly dude D: but im learnin something else currently soo, vibratos can wait lo

  • Great lesson. I've been playing guitar for 2 and a half years now and didn't know what a vibrato was lol.

  • @ColonelSnitler For shame, sir! ;)

  • @justmevlad1994 Dude . . . 'practice' and uh . . . I can do flight of the bumblebee with vibratos, eat shit mofo.

  • @zamm0rock I'm sure you get to play FotB A LOT. That song is great for any occasion. No one cares; get over yourself.

  • Hey man are you Canadian

  • I was having some trouble from going to Classic guitar to Electric. The vibrato is done differently cause in one it's a sideways motion and another up and down motion.

  • Im rubbish at adding vibrato myself. Nice lesson

  • "hendrix-ee" that needs to be an official guitar term.

  • bending up is much harder than down

  • I am at the guitar for about 8 months is it normal that i cant do this?

  • @Turtlesonspeed It's pretty normal, yes-

  • @Turtlesonspeed 4 months, did it on my first try. O.o

  • @zamm0rock If you could do it after 4 months why are you looking at a video of how to do it?

  • @christy1234567891011 Are you retarded or something? I meant I've been playing guitar for 4 months when I watched this and that I did it on my first try. 

  • @zamm0rock What do you want? A cookie? Maybe you are used to bending your wrists. Nobody who says they think things are tough wants to hear some jerkoff say it's a piece of cake and that they did it on their first try. If you do that in life, you're going to wind up with few friends and an awful lot of people who can't stand your sorry sack. Learn some friggin' social skills, buddy.

  • @Turtlesonspeed ive been at it for 3 years and i dont have it very well

  • am i the only one who is confused with why everyone is saying this is hard? ive never had trouble with this and ive only been playing guitar for a few years

  • E 7th sharp9???

  • naturally i just bend with by fingers but my tutor always tells me i should use my wrist and forearm more than fingers. gah

  • I thought I was the only one who sucked at this. I feel better reading these comments.

  • @MARIOFREAK821 Just practise a lot, how long have you been playing? I play half a year now, never had a lot of trouble with vibratos but I know what you mean, When I bend a string I allways touch and ring other strings, if that is your problem to you should mute them with your palm. Let people know what your problem is maybe they can help you with it

  • @glennvanzutphen Well I've been playing almost a year now but almost all of that was on a cheap acoustic with strings that almost didn't even bend. I didn't get my electric guitar until a few weeks ago. And that's a good idea, I'll have to try that. :)

  • @MARIOFREAK821 I know the problem, electric is a lot easier, if you have any questions about it just ask me, maybe I know it, otherwise im pretty good with searching on google :P

  • k, how does he make it look so god damn easy? haha :L

  • I have the same guitar :)

  • @Garyelement Me too! :D

  • how do you vibrato with your index finger on the lower end of the e-string?

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  • hey man i need your help. in 2007 i had a terrible accident and broke both bones in my left arm. i mean they were snapped in 2 and out my arm lol. but the break was about an inch and a half below my wrist. because of this, the motion for vibrato is incredibly difficult for me, but im trying. any alternate methods you could explain for me? please anyone

  • @MetalliMan0521 There is this Eric Clapton vibrato method where he keeps his wrist still and moves his whole hand up and down while he is bending the strings. And you can do finger vibrato to where you only utilize just your fingers to do vibrato. Hope that helped a little bit!

  • @jakesegdirb thanks man that did help. only using my fingers sounds good and is so much easier, it just looks a little sloppier. but that is perfectly fine lol thanks again

  • @MetalliMan0521 "i mean they were snapped in 2 and out my arm lol" wow you even said lol

  • Okay, I play Viola Cello and Guitar, an I would have to say the Order of easiest and hardest to me would be: Cello(Easiest) Viola(So so) and Guitar HARDEsT!

  • how long did it take for you to learn this?

  • HOLY SHIT this is sooo haaaaaaaaaard!!!! anyone have tips for me?

  • can it only sound properly with an amp? Coz when i play it without one it loses the sound after i bend it up once :(

  • Can't bends and the virbatio be done with the whammy bar? as well?

  • @SoSlipknot no dumbass, go leanr about guitar before you post some more stupid questions.

  • @SoSlipknot

    Sure it can be done, but in most cases it will sound better with finger vibrato (to my ears). With the whammy bar you get a cleaner sound, but with finger vibrato it got overall more feel to it in my opinion. And you got a better sustaining note with more harmonics is many cases.

  • thank for the help i just got my guitar 2 weeks ago and im all ready learning one by metallica

  • caralho! o vibrato desse bixo éh palha dmmmmais!!!

    ñ vale assistir

  • i have that same guitar

  • doew daw doew da da doew daw

  • Damn, this shit is HARD !

  • @bryansouza pinch harmonics are hard :P

  • it is easier to do this to a metronome to build up speed. bend to the right pitch, lower the string slightly then bring it back up. takes a while but once you get it......it adds so much more emotion to your playing.

  • help!!!!when i do a vibrato it like wears out my frets bigtime is it possible that i might be pushing the the strings to hard or something!!!!!!

  • try guitarmanual.typepad.com/blog/ for beginner lessons or google guitar manual blog and see first result

  • oh my god i suck at this, i cant bend fast at all. whats a good exercise for speed on this?

  • @hifatpeople just keep bending it repeatedly at a confortable pace, and go faster and faster, that always works!!!!

  • @hifatpeople

    Play it with scales, and at the end of your scales vibrato. Its fun to practice when doing blues scales.

  • Big difference Ehhhhh! using the Vibrato!!

  • i want to get a high tone with vibrato but i dont knok how

  • @MsMichael1995 ... use a high output bridge pickup, low string action, high-gain amp. For some reason the Ibanez RG (prestige) series seems to make these harmonic overtones pop-up easily.

  • Search youtube for the "Shred Durst" vibrato lesson.

  • damn i learned it bad and now i cant really do it good cuz i do it with my fingers straight up and not doing it angled and with the whrist so i have a very weak whrist now, any tips please?

  • Is this a Canadian accent? Sounds like Irish to me.

  • Very good lesson, covers all the basics.

  • I love your stuff. Thanks

  • man i suck at vibrato if u watch any of my solos on my page u can see for urself...

  • thanks for making this simpler, especially about using the wrist. I find myself using upward vib on trem strings and downward motion on bass strings. Nice easy visual. Thanks.

  • thanks a lot, im still a beginner but your video was a big help!

  • i cant make that motion on my whrist!!

  • @lotrringereras switch hands with rosie palm if you catch my drift

  • @lotrringereras There's only one thing you can do to solve that problem: practice, practice and practice some more.

  • Vibrato = HARD ?

    it's actually very easy i don't see anything hard in it...O_O

    and i barely know how to play a guitar

  • @RE4boyo good for you, captain awesome x)

  • @jeeshwa123 lol dude i didn't mean to be umm bragging is it ?

    im just saying it's easy for me

  • @RE4boyo good for you (;

  • Great lesson!

  • Nice vid :D

    But there's this song and the last chord don't know which one it is, kinda new, only playing for 2 monts and studying it on my own. But it goes like this

    D-1~------ And uhm, it's pretty hard to bend there, even more when you bar it,

    A-1~------ so if someone would have some advice for me? please help :D

    E-1~------

  • @tHeViNcTa666 ups, the lay out is kinda messed up -.-

    As you can hopefully see, the 3 capital letters with "-1~---" behind it should be beneath each other and between "But it goes like this" and "and uhm..."

    Just for clearing things up :D

  • Very useful. Thank you for sharing.

  • - a vibrato is like "bend release bend release bend release" etc etc... but the MOST IMPORTANT thing to do is when you release the string, ALWAYS release the string all the way back to the starting note, if you don't do it you'll be out of tune...

    I hope I helped someone by writing this comment... I'm sorry if I posted 4 comments in a row it was saying error when I tried to post it as a whole comment

  • - take the letter L, imagine that the base of the L is your thumb, put the neck of the guitar right in the corner of that L, use that corner as a point of pivot for the wrist movement

  • @83CAB83 thanks, this was very helpful!

  • - the wrist movement feels like when you try to turn a locked door knob repeatedly.

  • don't squeeze the string harder with the finger when you shake it

    just keep the pressure even, don't stress the pitch

  • Any exercises? or just carry on with the clumsy slow motion crap that seems to come from my fingers

  • vibrato is definitely tricky. its one of those things, you dont practice it everyday for hours and finally get it, you just play all the time and one day its there, its more a discovery, a wise professor one said you cant plan to make a discovery but u can just create the right conditions for discovery to occur. just keep trying at it

  • so the vibrato is bending the string, did i get it right?

  • r vibratos only meant for the high frets of the strings?

  • anywhere, any note , any string, bends , use it as you please to make your style

  • depends on your style mate ;)

  • are you using any guitar effect pedals? i can't seem to be getting the same tone.

  • try turning you reverb up,and using a A.H

  • A.H?

  • when doing a standard vibrato, when your slightly bend the string does it matter whether you bend it down towards the floor and release it, or bend it up then release it? because from what ive heard your meant to bend it down towards the floor , but when i do that it sounds 10 times worse than when i bend it up and release it. You would think that bending the string up wouldnt make a different sound than bending it down anyway so it shouldnt matter which way you do it?

  • thanx bro this helped A LOT!!!

    i never new dat!

  • this helps so much, thanks

    in used to just pull the string down using my whole arm strength making it very difficult

  • thank u so much now i m realise something wrong with my wrist

  • thanks cool lesson

  • great... i thought i could do it... but now i cant do it on guitar or violin! ima quit... jk i wont quit, ill practice

  • I get it... but if I bend the string this much, it already changes the height of the note so ita sounds false... it vibrates but as a note higher than the one I want.... could anyone help me? Should a change the strings?

  • thanks!

  • I can't seem to do it with the 2 highest notes B and E

  • I'll take any help..thanks

    Oh dmaril1, your video sounds like someone with a broken guitar fallin over a bunch of trashcans !

  • choking the chicken sound, thanks for trying to help

  • never really understood what Vibrato was in guitar playing, does it always mean give the string a shake on string with a left finger???

  • @adds3566 Vibrato, in any music, means to make the note sound like it "vibrates" and shaking the string accomplishes this. Hope i could help!

  • thanks a lot!

  • good video :) i'll try it ! thank's!

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  • i always struggle with vibrato during bends. it always causes me to bend out of pitch

  • Practice it slowly, and what you do is you bend up to the pitch you want, and then add vibrato by releasing the bend slightly and bending it back up to the pitch you aimed for in the first place, so rather than with standard vibrato where you bend the pitch up slightly and releasing it continuously, you bend up to the note and add vibrato by releasing the bend and then bending back up continuously.

  • @sickspastic Just practice and soon you'll get control. You'll be amazing in no time.

  • @sickspastic try to bend to the pitch then back then to that pitch agen, i find that it teaches you to keep the pitch more

  • @sickspastic : Yep, thats the one with me as well. IT takes some strength. I have found that using the guitar weight helps. But like you, I am spending time practising this as when it comes I am sure we will be thing "Easy" - hahahaha

  • whats with you swedish guitar players having so much feel?!

  • Great vid, thanks!!!

  • great feel

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  • Well... What evidence do you have to support that this is tremolo? I'd bet if you go and ask anyone formally trained in music, they would say this is vibrato, not tremolo. Heck, look it up on wikipedia or something, too. I'm not trying to argue or anything, it's just been that this is called vibrato by everyone but Leo Fender and some people influenced by him. And many people that call a vibrato a tremolo will admit that its proper name is a vibrato.

  • thats tremelo not vibrato. loads ofpeople make this mistake becaus vibrato sounds like vibrate.

  • Are you saying this video is about tremolo, not vibrato?

  • pretty much but also no. people have been making this mistake so much now this is pretty much vibrato. (i know im a hypicorite)

  • If you're basing this on the fact that Leo Fender incorrectly named his Stratocaster vibrato a tremolo, then you should look around for the millions of people who have mentioned that he mislabeled it.

    Vibrato has been known as a change in pitch, tremolo a change in volume, and it's been that way for hundreds of years. Only until Fender mixed up their vibrato and tremolo did people start widely confusing the two.

  • im not basing it on that (i have no idear that that even happened) its a bit outlandish to say its been like that for hundreds of years when theres too little evidence to support it.

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  • your the dumbass for postin a comment like that when you obviously havent read the other comment proply

  • oh my God, bending up is hard. All it takes is practice?

  • You must bend the strings with 2 or 3 fingers

  • oh yes I know I meant bending up with vibrato. It's so uncomfortable teaching yourself to do that.

  • Yeah, im also learning it now, vibrato is a very difficult technique and takes a long time to practice

  • @Artur440 try changing the way you think about it, "vibrato is a very easy technique, I will get it with practise". The way you think affects the way you play ;)

  • @Artur440 I know, but once you learn it, you legit will always use it. Even without thinking about it. Happens to me all the time. It's like a natural instinct now aha.

  • yep

  • its the ellen degenerous intro song lol at the start

  • dont be a dick

  • Great tips on vibrato. I've seen a lot of your videos. They're very informative and entertaining.