Violin Vibrato Trick (please view other vibrato vids first)

[penztoy]

OMG You are the man! I got it... I finally was able to translate this into the wrist & the arm as well very easily. Oh how I look forward to practice now. I can only spend 3 hrs a day but now my scales are like a concert! thank you...

[whysricewhite]

Thank you so much, you are an amazing teacher :).

[TH3BUSH1D0]

Wow. 3 minutes and 2 seconds ago I had no first finger vibrato. Thanks!!!!!!!

[jmteodones]

Hi professorv,

Well, I'm a beginner, and my teacher told me to look at your videos to study how vibrato works.

And now I've watched your hand vibrato video, and this one.

I find it that the Finger Vibrato is my foundation for developing Hand Vibrato.

Thanks!

[dumbstuff107]

i still don't get it everytime i do the vibrato my bow moves with it .... please help thank u :)

[mind2539]

can i ask something? when you play vibrato , do your finger always put weight on your string or lose and put and lose and put ?

(sorry i'm from thailand)

[luisramon2000]

i learned it myself by just messing around with violin im a beginner

[padfoot92]

I'm able to get a decent vibrato motion and sound for all but my third finger...my first knuckle joint seems to either always be popping too far back or not being flexible enough to go as far back as it needs to and it's just generally extremely uncomfortable...would you have any advice?

[vialick]

Wow! that seems easy! I will try that. thank you

[Romania567]

Now I just need to work on arm vibrato and I'll have all three types :D! Thank you so much for your videos, I love them and they are a great help!

[KashiwaDaisuke]

This is the kind of vibrato I use; all finger motion, almost no arm/wrist motion. You can get a very expressive sound with it, but it's difficult to control the speed. It's also tough as balls to do with the fourth finger.

[silvi77]

could you please explain it in spanish??? please!!!!

[alaskowski]

Thank you ProfessorV for your wonderful videos. I find them to be invaluble in addition to my regular lessons. I just got introduced to vibrato and was having no luck with it, so I, once again, turned here and this trick worked for me! Hardly perfect and needs practice, but I have just done my first vibrato.

[TheStevenOoi]

LOL it looks like a shrimp

[amrosik]

it works , its like uncontrolled over-jerking

[sedgarandrew]

ProfessorV thanks to you, I learned how to do a vibrato! When I was watching your previous vids, I didn't get anything at all, but when I watched this vid, I was amazed! It sounds very good. Now I can play for anyone who has a special day! Thank you very much. But is it bad to not practice the wrist and arm vibrato? :) I'm so relieved to learn it! It feels like I am the 2 students that you were talking about! Thanks! :)

[professorV]

Hi sedgarandrew, I'm glad it helped you. Now that you a good start on the vibrato, I'd suggest you go back to the hand/wrist vibrato video and work on control of the motion. In the end, you can even use different width and speed to make your vibrato even more appealing. Consider this trick the booster rocket that got you off the ground! Good luck!!

[maxmillancharles]

This technique actually works ... simple and sweet ... thanks for sharing.

[unfoldingart]

The first time I tried vibrato this way, I thought I had it down until my teacher told me that it wasn't really a true vibrato, just some sort of spastic movement. I had no prior knowledge to the principles behind vibrato.

I think that everybody should know the principles behind vibrato and what the movements actually entail before using this video as a guide (as professorv himself warned in the beginning of the video).

Cheers.

[pinnywinny15]

I get it now!!!!!!1!!!!

[TheXxsnappedxx]

Im in 6th grade and started violin at the beginning of school and have always wondered how to do vabrato but my teacher says she wont teach us until we are in 8th so i went searching for vids and none we good but when i watched this one i did it my first try (not very good) and i could already hear it Thank you so much!

[lovergirl14baby]

OMG THIS WORK FOR ME!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN TRING TO GET THE VIBRATO FOR 3 YEARS NOW AND I JUST WATCH YOU AND COPIED YOU AND I GOT IT!!!!! (^___^)v

[wraithvendetta]

this looks like a cross between a hammer-on and a partial mute as played on bass guitar. that really makes it easier

[lordphoenix71]

Watching this video taught me something I have been trying to do for months now.  Thank you! It worked for me within ten minutes. Now I just have to deal with hand and wrist fatigue, but overall, this was an excellent trick!

[violet524]

Haha, this is how I attempted to teach myself how to do vibrato. I figured this wasn't quite the "right" way to do it, so I just gave up practicing it. After watching this, i feel..Smart? xD

[Mehecanogeesir]

This is how taught myself to vibrato in 7th grade..i did this out of instinct..pretty cool.

[zanmator]

impressive, it's been four days since i started vibrato, and i already hear it. thanks prof V. Still need lots of practice though but with your help i think i'll be a violonist ...someday

[Fantasiaispam]

Another trick. Try putting the vln in "guitar pos." and resting 2nd finger next to the f.bd, next to the octave harmonic, on body of vln, hand hanging from thumb on vln.neck. Then, keeping arms hanging from shoulders, ask the kid to roll the finger so that you can hear the nail tapping the wood. This controls speed and keeps knuckle rolling free and forward. It avoids worrying about wrist/arm. The vln can then be grad. brought up to playing pos. Works for 3 out 4 kids at just shifting standard.

[hpept]

I learned this exact trick by myself experimenting and I currently use it to make a more pleasant vibrato on A and E strings. For G and D it doesn´t work very well, but I ´m able to make wrist vibrato on them.

For me it works. Thanx for explaining.

[pieeater287]

Haha, i am a beginner violinist and haven't even taken lessons or a class yet. I have been teaching myself. It's kinda hard when you want to sound good at such a level, but i'm sure that when I get an instructor things will change, Hah. Your vibrato technique is fantastic, but I still don't know how to transfer the weight properly, move my finger up and down at a fast pace, and move the bow across the string all at the same time. Kinda hard for me, but with heavy practice It should be easy. =p.

[BengalTigerSigma]

five and six! my brother and i both tried this method and it worked like a charm! my friends were going saying to me what the heck i was doing but three weeks later they were saying to me how i got wrist vibrato down. now i only have one question, how do i that with my fourth finger, im kinda having trouble applying the trick on my pinky, do you have any suggestions?

[MissPomodoroo]

Omggg thank you! This helped me!! *-*

[aalpatya1]

THANKYOU professorV!!!!!!! im just doing my grade 6 violin now( in UK) and i couldnt do vibrato. i tried watching many vibrato tutorials, but none of them worked. i saw ur other videos for vibrato, and i got it almost. but after seeing this video, i can do it very good!

I think being able to do vibrato is a milestone in playing the violin :) thankyou

[neilsolaris]

This type of vibrato is known as "impulse" vibrato. Steve Redrobe talks about it in his dvd called "Secrets Of The Old Masters".

[Maestrp37388]

Four!

This works for me and helps me start transferring wieght. I just want to know if this is acceptigble to be used in academic settings.

[professorV]

It's really just to get the wrist vibrato working. Think of it as a jump start for wrist vibrato. I do not continue bouncing the finger, although I hear Fritz Kreisler did exactly that. Anyway, once your wrist/hand vibrato is working it will be accepted by everyone.

[Maestrp37388]

@professorV That's what is going on with me. It seems that I am slowly but surely developing some control and it is more and more, resembling proper vibrato.

[stumpbuzzr]

you are a gentle teacher and I appreciate you willingness to share your knowledge with us. I think I will be one of those few that this will help. I have struggles and struggled and struggled. I will be practicing this. I play by ear. lol and I need all the help I can get. thank you again for you videos. rhonda

[dirtyviolin]

I'm self taught, no easy challenge, I learned by ear, as you can imagine there are alot of things you cant teach yourself by ear, I am a very D.I.Y musician, but this video stopped my bending the string to create vibrato, (akin to my guitar background) witch creates problems with bowing, and your previous video about bow holds helped me devise a comfortable way to hold the bow and play. For a long time I was playing but it felt awkward. So thanks for the very helpful tips.

[dirtyviolin]

I'm self taught, no easy challenge, I learned by ear, as you can imagine there are alot of things you cant teach yourself by ear, I am a very D.I.Y musician, but this video stopped my bending the string to create vibrato, (akin to my guitar background) witch creates problems with bowing, and your previous video about bow holds helped me devise a comfortable way to hold the bow and play. For a long time I was playing but it felt awkward. So thanks for the very helpful tips.



[violinplayer33]

u only move ur wrist no arm

[bittersweetpoison08]

awesome!!! it works!!! :)

[iTouchedYuu]

O:!! Before I watched this, I kinda add alittle weight while bouncing on the string. (Lol! It was an attempt if it would sound good) Thanks for the help, it worked! :3

[ItJustSaysGumbo]

How much intensity can you get with this form of vibrato

[ItJustSaysGumbo]

How much intensity can you get with this form of vibrato?

[SodaPopCutie14]

i decided i wanted to try vibrato one day, and i did it that way naturally.

[EvieHippie]

Eep! Better make that three!!! I got it!!! It really helped!!!

This is unrelated to the lesson, but I was just wondering...  I know you said that vibratos are rarely done with the first finger, but is there ever a case where a vibrato will be performed behind the nut, to oscillate the open string? As in a guitar?

[professorV]

Great!

The way to create vibrato with an open string is to vibrate the same note, only up one octave - meaning 3rd finger on the next sring up (bow open G string while vibrating 3rd finger on the D string). It works best with the G and D.

[pazteur2007]

@professorV i got a problem sir.. I learned this first, because it's the way I see the performers on TV,i can do wrist vibratos but i can hardly do it while in a series of notes, or in a song, i know its bad to make this technique as my primary way to make vibratos, but it seems that it's going to be like that.

[GlaciatedHeart]

The way i got my vibrato to work is i did it in front of a mirror and i stared at my hand and arm and made it move.

ahaha now i can do it no problem.

And I've been playing for a month so don't give up hope.

YOU CAN DO IT!!! YAY!!!

[sherom]

This is a form of the impulse vibrato, used by Kriesler, Mischa Elman, and Toscha Seidel. I have been using this vibrato for sometime now. If you do this technique correctly, you don't have to bring your arm into play at all. Again thanks for pointing out this forgotten type of vibrato. For more info on this type of vibrato, check out Steve Redrobe's dvd. Thanks again !

[pmbazman15]

@professorV ok i did this and i can now move my first joint very fast but what do i do with my wrist now to make vibrato?

[L337Wesley]

Omg that what i did when i was obsess about wanting to get vibrato , and when i was practising at home i was like hey maybe if i press it down and stuff i might get some vibrato , i got it pretty much at first , then i heard that its not good to develop bad habits at vibrato and so i stoped. who knew lol

[shockingreality]

LOL...that's what I do with the guitar....

I had m violin for like an hour..and I wanted badly to do vibrato...so I, like, did this...hahahha

finding out that violin was really a different instrument than guitar...i stopped LOL

[WUHUNEE]

Is this meant to take advantage of only the hand? Or can this be done with the arm as well?

[professorV]

Hi WUHUNEE, It is intended to help hand/wrist vibrato as the impulse of the finger transfers to the hand. My guess is that it would be much less successful with arm vibrato, but anything could happen...

[tournesol81bis]

I want to thank you very sincerely for all your videos.

Valerie, from France

[myworldsmusic]

WOOOOW!!! This is amazing!! who would have thought it really works!

Thanks so much

[anonymous4132]

Wow! That's really working! Thanks a lot!

[Jovannir4]

OOOOOH! Now i have vibrato!! YAY!!

[argirisp]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!it works!!!!!!!!!

[HPWhoseLineAvatarMJ]

You're a really great teacher! I love your vids. SUBSCRIBED!!:)

[AdeliaGabyashi]

yeah, it works:) thanks!

[Tspardunhg]

:D :D :D

I think that I found my online violin teacher XD

You're great!!

Thank you!!!!!

[VIDEOmrsa]

i love you thank you so much!

[enegtoeneg]

hahah... jst... funny.. like getting wild and into vibrato...

aah~ when did i first learn to vibrato....

anyway,.. i love your videos!

the one with the sautille reallreally helped!!!

[koreababy07]

i started with this video in omg it worked thank you it been a long time coming lol

[U38066]

profV, is it possible to play thirds vibrato (TRILL) on a violin? I have no idea about pitch distribution, etc. just wonder.... Thank you.

[U38066]

I mean, the thirds trill of piano played by vibrato on a violin, but NOT single vibrato. Is that possible? Something like the initial of Chopin Etude Op.25 No.6. Pure curiosity.

BTW, I played piano and finger vibrato seems very easy (wrist/arm vibrato are much more difficult to me). I have interest in knowing more about violin and hope to learn it some day. I've leant a lot here today. Thank you again.

[MrLittleCub]

Oh yeah! Then it must be really small, like a finger. Gongrats!

[GothicToreador]

I always did the vibratto like this and I have a HUGE difficulty to make the vibratto with the arm..

[trunksasdf]

Im trying to move my finger from top to back put allways when my hand starts to move automaticly it goes beyond the major note.

[ericgable]

Is there anyway I can improve intonation n sometimes my bow looks cricket how do I fix that? N how do I achieve beutiful tone?

[kjkjdmdm]

nice it help me

ha first to do vibrato in my beginners class

[TheDisturbed24]

vibrato is hard

[animemangagoddess]

Huh. Interesting. I taught myself vibrato with just pure practice. ^ ^ This is pretty neat, though. =]

[Sowina]

What exercices did you do? I'd like to learn by myself too and i don't know where to begin!

[animemangagoddess]

Sorry, unfortunately I didn't do any exercises. (Perhaps I should...) But just keep in mind that you vibrate away and towards you--not side to side. So move your wrist back and forth w/fingers in place. Relax, and don't be too stiff. I started practicing it using F#. That, to me, seemed the easiest note. Also try it out on the D Major scale. Once you get the hang of it, go faster. Don't always vibrato when you're playing scales though, you'll need to hear the intonation. Hope this helps!

[xxSymbiotexx]

isnt it easier to start on the E string?

[rapancholi]

I played the violin for 11 years then took an 8 year break. Just bought myself a violin and trying to re-learn somethings. I was never able to really do vibrato except the simple version of this trick and i was comfortable at that. now i want to learn actual vibrato and this definately helped me. For the first time in my life, today, i learned how to vibrato. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[MusicMan00163]

Wow that's the same with me. Ive never been able to get it until now.

[mina8596]

That was a beautiful sound! Thankyou for thye trick I will try it!!!!

[firesky]

Thank you very much for sharing this trick! My knuckles have always been slightly stiff and maybe this will help make it more flexible. I'm going to try it out soon XD

[Lamturnik]

Thank you very much,

Prof. Ehle!

[myshrinkingviolet2]

just recently i started practicing vibrato. I was too stiff, and the pitch hardly changed. but even before i saw this video, i was able to get pitch change like vibrato by using this same technique, but i thought it was going to turn into a bad habit, so i quite trying to do it altogether, and so my vibrato still suffers.

so your video has given me motivation to go back to that technique, actually XD i even watched your other videos, which i praise for my teachers never showed me those. kudos!

[stylemechic]

i'm trying this on my desk top and i can vibrato! my right hand can vibrato but its useless obviously, and now my left hand can vibrate like my right! coolio! imma go try it on my viola...

[abigailmolly]

i am taking my grade 6 exam in a month and i couldn't do vibrato before that video!! i was practicing for months and you literally just taught me in a matter of moments...thanks so much!!

[SimpleElegance93]

Yeah, that's actually how I vibrato! I tried doing some wrist vibratos and ended up with the bouncing finger vibrato! Thanks alot, I need to get faster with it!

[pseudolithos]

Thank for Your lessons!!! I'm a beginner and this videos are simply.....fantastic!

Luca, from Rome.

[BeatrixPotterer]

Great trick! I'm not a beginner, have been playing professionally for many years but this was new to me and is quite brilliant for warming up awkward high notes in orchestra passages. Definitely a useful tool to add to the vibrato tool bag!

[concertobub]

Thanks so much - I tried this and the vibrato happened. It feels likes this is a rebounding component somewhere in this exercise which helps me do two actions for the price of one - I don't know if that makes sense. At any rate, I now have the vibrato and can do it on all for fingers (after two months of study on the violin - I'm a beginner at age 36, although I studied piano quite seriously at a conservatory here in Montreal. thanks again. Shawn , Montreal.

[manyapearl]

thanks. ur amazing!

[manumitgitarre]

compined with violinmaniac's vibrato tricks, i could lear how to do it very quickly, thanks!

[xxSymbiotexx]

oh my god it actually worked O___O

[ThomasL95]

thanks i get it now. I could vibrato a lot better now

[THUHweird]

my teacher said it doesn't matter what way you do vibrato, as long as it doesn't stress out your hand and it sounds good if it sounds bad... gotta do a different way so for those people who dont think they're doing it right... there ya go this is basically what astoria3011 said

[iplehguitar]

i've viewed every single one of your vibrato techniques, read basicly a whole lot of books on vibrato, and watched any vibrato lesson or demonstration i can find any where and yet i still cant do that wavering sound!everytime i try it doesnt sound wavey enough. theres such a small tone change you can barely hear it. if i wanted a wavey tone i would have to move my finger to a diffrent spot, not roll it or do any other tricks you told me to do. what do i do?!?!? i need some serious help with this

[professorV]

Hi iplehguitar, I made a new video last week on vibrato but have not put it in my playlists yet. I just listed it above as a video response. Maybe you've already seen it, however if you are having trouble creating width, perhaps the concept of 'weight transfer' (in the new video) could help you. Moving the hand or arm is only part of the technique, the finger has to move - a difficult concept to understand. Check out the video and think about 'weight transfer'. Good luck and keep trying!

[Zookhaarh]

Ok, now I can play vibrato after 2 weeks, but.... not on the upper corner on the "fretboard" on the D string ( the lowest note playable) Can you give me some advice ? thanks

[xNippleWaferx]

You are really nice!! THANKS!!

[sloppy6845]

Genius! I'd been struggling with hand vibrato for ages doing the other exercises with very little success. But this made sense and worked immediately. Many thanks for sharing your pearls of wisdom mate - as i say, genius!

[THUHweird]

thanks astoria3011 thanks for posting your reassuring comment

[astoria3011]

I can do vibrato much easier this way. I think there's really no "wrong way" to vibrato. This is just another way to vibrato. It's like block fingering and not block fingering. If it works for you better, then keep it.

[nanarocxie]

i watched this video a couple of weeks back and i now have vibrato by looking at your videos, my teacher always told me that this wasn't a way to vibrato, but she was wrong.

THANKS MR. TODD

[THUHweird]

weight... i add weight to my finger so my finger is basically on the fingerboard, but moving up and down in VERY tight space

right now when i "vibrato" on an open string i... well... you know the pegs and the strings on the finger board nearest to the pegs... the very closest i can get without getting off the finger board (while putting weight on the string) is where i do the TIGHT space up and down and it sounds just like the open string but a vibrato sound...

[THUHweird]

professor V, i can't make my whole hand move when i do this.... i can only move my fingers! i have to move my finger fast to do what you did at the end of this video but i don't understand how your hand moves like that.. it sounded just like what you did at the end of the video i added weight.... to my finger so it sorta touches the fingerboard

please answer back on my channel or here thank you

and also.. how would you vibrato an open string?

[Zookhaarh]

I'm one of them you helped :) ..... I've just bought a violin today on the street.... I gypsy was selling a violin and a guitar... i did't have much cash with me... so I asked him how much for the violin, he said 200 dollars... i said I only have 25 ... :( So I started walking away when I saw 2 cops walking towards the guy,

[Zookhaarh]

he was packing his stuff fast, becouse it was'n legal what he was doing.... but before running away, he put the violing in my hands and took my money and ran away, so now I have a violin....

[Zookhaarh]

it's pretty old tough... 1945 Cheslovakia.... hmmm...... Well, now it's time to practice :)

[THUHweird]

thats what i do, i just started, just found out myself teacher didn't tell me i thought i was wrong and i guess im not all the way lol thx for makin this vid

[professorV]

Hi THUHweird, just nake sure you are turning this into a hand/wrist vibtato. Your teacher will probably not want you to just be "bouncing" your finger. This video is really just another approach to the wrist/hand vibrato.

[nji12345]

Works perfectly for me. Thanks alot.

[BCxxBC]

Thanks professor V. this exercise has allowed my fingers' joints to fully loosen up. I'm now vibrating like a pro :D all thanks to you !!!

[professorV]

That's great! Good for you.

[zeagle79]

I think, that this addresses the common problem of a relaxed first joint first instead of approaching it from the oscillation upwards. It works; and, then one is able to approach amplitude and speed from the top down instead of the opposite. Most of us are too hurried with vibrato anyway, and this is a potentially good solution.

[professorV]

Very interesting, and a logical way to view this. Thanks for the insight!

[CreepyCreator2]

oohhhh i seeee ok thanks for clearing that up. Your vids are SO helpful!

[clemxclem]

this works great!!! thanks!!

[CreepyCreator2]

well i originally did that thinking it was the correct way to do vibrato but now my teacher is making me do the wrist vibrato and it's giving me hell!..sigh..

[professorV]

CC2, this is another way to try to get the wrist/hand vibrato started, not a different vibrato in itself (although finger vibrato is a valid type, just not used much anymore). The end result here should be wrist (or hand) vibrato.

[SusanUrq]

is this cheating ?

[professorV]

SusanUrq,

Perhaps, and a student should attempt to learn vibrato with my other videos first so they understand the mechanics involved. However, so many students struggle learning vibrato, I still think it's good information. This technique should end up as a wrist/hand vibrato, and NOT a bouncing finger. Thanks.

[Leonhart666]

Hi ProfessorV!

i have been studying violin for a year now, and i did not officialy learnt how to vibratto. However, i do try to do it when practicing alone, since this tecnique(vibratto) adds a lot of emotion to the piece you play, when used correctly.

Well, sice i had no knoledge began to do pretty much what you showed us in this video, the effects is good, but i thought it was a very bad habit, since its is not arm not hand vibratto..

Is this 'finger' vibratto acceptble?

please reply my msg

[professorV]

Leonhart, The finger vibrato is very out-of-fashion, and hardly used anymore. I'm only using the technique to attempt to get wrist/hand vibrato started. The bouncing finger should stop when weight is added. TE

[EmilyLiz]

I used this method to teach myself vibrato. It is like a magic trick; it worked instantaneously. I've never seen anybody else use it before and I had difficulty explaining it to others. Now I can just point them to this video! Very cool; thanks for sharing.

[dancelova25]

cool, sounds great!

[license2stab]

I've played with this idea before methinks. I figured it was just cheating though, not quite the real thing.

I've been playing for a bit over a year now, and your videos are amazing! Very helpful.

My teacher seems found of arm vibrato, but its been giving me some trouble grasping. I was watching your wrist vibrato lessons, and I may give that a good try, although you cleared some of the confusion for the arm vibrato technique as well. Thank you!

[pinkblossom016]

I'll try this! Me and my friends were "cheating" by just bouncing the string to make vibrato. Now I'm gna actually try to add weight into it. Thanks!!

[hy9947]

ill give it a try

[danedaworld]

nice ill try it. yo professor V ur my idol =Dz. good luck with ur future students

[memawlee]

Oh my gosh! I've been doing the bouncing thing, trying unsuccessfully to learn vibrato. Now I'll practice adding weight to my finger and hopefully turn it into a real vibrato.

[gtra3180]

oh wow this works :D

[stradplayer614]

Isnt this the same as impulse vibrato ???

[professorV]

I believe the bouncing finger is the same(also called finger vibrato), however I'm using it here to start a hand-wrist vibrato, which is much more popular these days.

[MichelleSeven]

OMG,. That's amaziiiing!!!

[iami2007]

i discovered this mode of vibrato sometime ago when i was trying to figure out how to do vibrato at higher position such as 6th. My problem is how to do vibrato at high position as i seem can't do it with wrist

[lifesgood9]

Thanks for the magic trick!! It works fantastically!!

[pikachoi2007]

Hello Teacher Todd, Thanks for posting my request. Your website is really full of infos. By the way,in what state do you stay and teach today? 5 stars here. One great lesson from a very amazing teacher

[professorV]

Hi Joseph, I'm in Texas. Thanks for the nice comments.

[xXShippuudenXx]

I love the painting you made hanging on the wall :]

[professorV]

Thanks!

[Linuxica]

Another great lesson!

Thank you!!

[professorV]

Hi Linuxica, I hope things are going well.

[tullochgorum]

Hey - works for me! Even getting a bit of movement with my 4th finger. Very useful...

[MaceCro]

yes that is how i did vibrato before i seen other vibrato videos and its a fine when you have no clue how to do vibrato, but i like more the wrist or hand vibrato....

[professorV]

Hi MaceCro, this is to try to get wrist (or hand) vibrato started for people that have not had any luck trying other ways. I'm not implying that you would continue to "bounce" the finger up and down as your final vibrato. Once you add weight to the finger, it should be down. I hope that is clear in the video.

[dragknuckle]

This is how I initially obtained vibrato when I first started playing, before I really studied technique. I found that I still needed to learn more advanced technique to get it happening with my pinkie finger.

[spiderman123321]

very nice, I already learned vibrato on my own, and it's pretty good.