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  • Hi everyone! Quick comment! This video is a way for people to learn how to oscillate their voices to get the feel for vibrato. This is by no means the only way to learn, and for many of you it won't work welll! For many it will be, but probably not for everyone out there! If you are looking to develop a strong, inside-out understanding of vibrato, you would benefit more from a personal lesson with a teacher who can evaluate and understand your voice specifically and make recommendations. Thanks!

  • Hi! I just came across your videos and my thoughts is that you are a nice person and very encouraging. I'm subscribing in hope that you keep making videos.

    Love!

  • Keep pressing 7.

  • I can sing vibrato! :D watch my videos please LOL

  • @prosinginglessons great video! i have a question about speeding up the bounces. im at 4 per second but i can go any higher. any ideas how to speed it up?

  • I love you!

  • That's actually the premise of my entire program, trying different techniques and using what works best for your voice, because of course, not everything will! Your voice is unique to you and what works for that person may not work for you! The bottom line is KEEP TRYING and never give it up as long as it makes you happy. Good luck everyone and have a great weekend!

  • And I also apologize if in a previous post I sounded a little harsh when talking about the idea of vibrato magically happening to your voice over time. I had a visitor post some really hurtful and abusive things towards me that morning, and he's now been dealt accordingly. My feelings get hurt like anyone else's! I love all the comments, I love how SO MANY of you are having success with it, and I'm sorry to those who don't, but not all techniques work for all people! Find what works for YOU. :)

  • The breath support whenever you're singing should always be strong, you should never be singing "from your throat" or forcing your voice. Those are the things that can cause eventual damage. Singing should be a natural extension of your speaking voice- as in, you shouldn't be trying to force out a certain tone or volume that causes hoarseness or discomfort. Also, sometimes a break from it and a re-visit at a later date is a great thing. Come at it with a fresh mind! <3

  • Hi everyone! Great job to everyone who has been working on it, it's fun to add it in your songs! Some really good points made, like over-use! I'm always reminded of a Simpson's episode where they're at a baseball game or something and a singer starts the anthem in daytime, and finishes it at night because of all the vibrtato, runs and other things! Too funny. Know which one I mean? Anyway, keep practicing your scales and exercises and you'll improve!

  • do you project from the stomach instead of the throat?

  • try to do vibrato singing only "H" lol

  • should i first practice vibrato in head voice then gradually switch to chest over time?

    or start straight from chest? which is faster in terms of progress? considering i have little control over speed of switching pitches = no vibrato

  • I taught myself how to do it when i was about 10. I watched people doing it on TV so I copied and now I can do sort of. It sounds really nice but it doesn't sound that professional or anything. I remember that I was singing in the choir (I was 11) and I did the virbreto and the boy beside me said 'Are you cold because you keep on making these shivering noise when you sing?' I got really embarassed and didn't say anything!

  • I don't know why, I start singing since I was little, and I can do vibrato since 6 or 7 naturally which anyone teaching me....

  • VIBRAToOoOOOOoOoO

  • the neighbors are gonna freak

  • Cool! I've been singing vibrados for years and it has always came naturally to me even when I diddnt know what it was

  • What i hate is this overdone showboating these singers do. To me it just ruins the song. I hear it alot nowadays. Even while singing the National Anthem. Woman especially like doing it for some reason?

  • No, it's not EASY :( I wish it was!

  • Thank you. The siren trick really worked for me! I have been trying for months to get vibrato and I hadn't been successful. I even worked hard using Brett Mannings "Master Vibrato" program and for whatever reason I just couldn't produce a consistent vibrato. I think this technique works because you are already oscillating pitch at a good speed (I used a metronome to time 5 -6 oscillations per second). Then once you remove the scaffolding (the ee sound and then the vowel) you are left with vibr

  • Thumbs up if she can scare thieves away! :)

  • @TriplePsiRJ Haha! :)

  • lessons aside, i laughed at how often the "woo woo" came up. and the first vibrato demonstration was louder than anticipated

  • i always though everyone could use ther vibrato :O becuz i can use mine perfectly never had 1 lesson

  • The whistles go woo WOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  • I was wondering what that was called. I feel when I use vibrato it sounds more forced than natural; plus I feel I don't really change my pitches that effectively. Hopefully this will help :)

  • thank you for making this vid! im a tenor one in high school, last year i even made it to all state, but when conductors ask me to add more depth to solo parts, i get really self conscious because i have NO vabrado what so ever, never have, which is nice for many pieces, but it really limits my ability to present a really enjoyable solo to the audience and truly make a song my own. then i found this vid, you've given me a solid exercise to work off of, thanks! :)

  • when you say bouncing is it bouncing or touching ?

  • Im gonna try this ;D im pretty sure I have vibrato, but I never really paid attention to it before. I didn't know it could help :P I'll let you know :)

  • I tried the WEOO WEOO WEOO WEOO WEOO WEOO WEOO WEOO WEOO thing, and when my mom passed by me, the look on her face showed that she thought that I'd gone crazy.....

  • When you are speaking, does your voice naturally oscillate? NO. If it was something that your voice would just naturally begin to do, wouldn't it affect your speaking voice as well?

    And most of you have been speaking for well over 15 years, I'm sure! Think about this you guys, all we're trying to do here is give you an exercise to learn to oscillate your voice.

    Vibrato is just an easy oscillation of your voice, so this is an exercise to practice so you can learn to do it faster. That's all.

  • @prosinginglessons

    U're right and u're wrong. U can say that vibrato is just an oscillation. Yes, it is. But these oscillation can come naturally or artificially. Yes, NATURALLY! And this nature has nothing common with speaking - don't compare. The real vibrato, which doesn't harm youre voice, comes from good voice support. Other forms of artificial vibrato, which u practice, trying to oscillate consciously with u're mouth, chest or throat - are not natural forms of vibrato.

  • @MrOs1986 I respectfully disagree. :) I was trained in opera with private lessons, and trained for close to 20 years growing up Breath support is the largest factor, and I'm well educated in it! :) I believe oscillating your voice is a stylistic technique that you make a conscious decision to add to the end of your notes when you want that effect. You can turn it on and off as you wish, and that's all I mean. Some may have had a different experience! Everyone is different. Thanks! 

  • Hey there, I worked on the delineation of my singing and I'm able to sing fairly well with or without vibrato and it sounds dulcet enough to suit my tastes. This video does help in aiding me sing with vibrato fairly better and I'll give it that, as I can see improvements. So you're saying that if I conscientiously practice on a daily basis, it'll eventually arrive "naturally"? Does it also mean that the ease of oscillating my voice perfectly means that I've figured out how to sing with vibrato?

  • I must say, this has helped me to the point that I can now comfortably use vibrato on command :)

    Thankyou :D

  • Very funny video!! ;D but I don't agree with you .. when u say Susan Boyle's good one!! jeje it ain't at all huhuhuh I really like your vibratos lessions

  • I needed this, my chorus concert is tomorrow night, and I have a lot of solos, so I need to vibrato my voice

  • this video actually helped me with vibrato

  • That's good for OOO sounds, but what about for when your just singing words that don't have ooo in it. When i listen back to myself trying to sing vibrato on some notes it just sounds shaky :/

  • Well - it's a smiple method...

    I'm estonished but it really works :) Thanks

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  • @MrTrinklied no. don't use ur stomache and dont move ur jaw. it shoule all come from ur voice

  • thanks! hope it works

  • great explanation :)

  • lmao 

  • vibrato isn't switching between notes is it? i thought that was called a trill

  • I love watching your videos, you're a wonderful teacher, very beautiful and I love you, love you, love you ..

  • You will not just wake up one day with it. If that was to happen, wouldn't it happen to your speaking voice as well? Of course not! You have to figure out how to oscillate your voice by either waiting years to figure it out on your own, or TRAINING your voice to do it. Then, you apply it to your songs wherever you want to, just like you would any other stylistic technique. I've said it a THOUSAND times, this video is just to train your voice to oscillate. Good luck!

  • There is a massive misunderstanding with the term "vibrato will come naturally" issue. Hear this: Vibrato is a stylistic technique that you apply to your voice when you choose to. The actual physical act is an oscillation of your voice. This video is a series of steps to get you to train your voice to oscillate. Eventually after years of practice you could figure out how to oscillate on your own. THAT is what they all mean by learning naturally. It doesn't just magically happen.

  • @florxiriod28 Thank you very much! It's nice to hear of someone who makes sense of this, because so many people read FAR too much into it and confuse themselves. Like I've said a ton of times, vibrato is an oscillation of your voice, but it is something that you have to consciously decide to do! When you're speaking, does your voice have vibrato? Of course not! Neither when you're singing! But if you decide to make your voice oscillate, it will whenever you want it to. Simple as that. Cheers!!

  • I hope that my family didn't care if my voice will turn into the siren sound all day long!

    That's REALLY FUNNY :P

  • which voice should i use it from?im confused ..do i sing vibrato using my diafragma or with my throat?

  • i can speed up the vibrato in the wee ooo but i cant cant apply soo great in actual songs. Do you have any advice on how to apply it to songs?

  • THANK YOU! I don't know if this will work, but it sounds a lot more reasonable than the chest gyrating I've been trying the past several months!

  • Can you learn it in just a day ?

  • @BlackDiamondKiss Everyone is different, I can't say for sure who will learn it faster than others.

  • Your videos are wonderful, and you are a woman beautiful and sexy.

    will you marry me? then you will be my teacher every day ..

  • @PCAMOMUSICA Hahaha of course I will! :P

  • Sorry, but this isn't vibrato. This is imitation of vibrato.

  • @trudbol No it's not, this is a way to TRAIN your voice to OSCILLATE so you can learn vibrato.

  • Thankyou so much

    my singing techa says it will come naturally'!

  • @ThePENELOPE3 Eventually it will feel natural, but applying vibrato to a note is something that you consciously do.

  • You are really amazing. I never knee how to do this and now I'm getting kind of good at it!! Thank you so much! =D

  • Thank you.

  • This seems like it would help with vocal control a little too (especially step 5)... does it?

  • is it possible to control the bounce between them as in making them smoother and smaller?

  • i was born with no vibrato but after years of singing in came to me naturally

  • @samyp1412 So what you're saying is you eventually figured out how to do it. That's great! My argument, is that vibrato is not something that just happens without you making a decision to use it. To say, "it comes naturally" is to say that you've figured out how to make your voice oscillate. Your voice has to complete an oscillating action for it to happen, and people cannot do this on their own. They need steps to train their voices to do it, and that's all this video is.

  • hello when doing eeee sound it sound bouncing but not like vibrato - it is more like trmble ' ugly tremble - can you hep me with that? I am not that voice gifted ( read as I am voice cursed) - but I wish I could sing at least smth easy

  • My Gosh Youre cute!!...lovin those cheeks gurl !!

  • THANKS! :)

  • Once you get good at step 5, is it a natural vibrato? I thought vibrato was a free oscillation of relaxed vocal cords; this seems more like a controlled rhythmic pumping of the vocal cords.

  • @pgreens It's not a pumping of the vocal cords, once you get the feel of it you'll find that it's easy and effortless. These steps are intended to get people in the feel of vibrato because so many people are told that it will just "happen" over time. I don't know anyone who has never tried to do it, who just magically woke up one day with it. I hope everyone reads that and understands that it's not logical to think it will just "appear".

  • looool thats hard

  • wow helpful...

  • you know, i see some singers shake with them under lip, that's not natural right?

  • hahahaha

    

  • Thank you so much!!! it reeealllyyy helped:)

  • This helped me so much!

    A few months ago, I was singing with no vibrato at all! When I decided to take online lessons, they didn't work. But YOU, oh my God, in just a few days of doing this I already could hear a little vibrato in my voice, and that was months ago!

    Now, I can sing my favorite songs without being embarrassed!

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!

  • Thank you for your message! You're voice is amazing. @prosinginglessons

  • Hi everyone, to all of you who think that vibrato will just come naturally- I'm a classically trained singer for over 20 years- believe me when I say you can control it. It's as simple as oscillating your voice and doing this causes no damage, at all. You're more likely to hurt your voice yelling at a sporting event than doing this. Just never force your voice, that's what causes damage. There is nothing marvelously complicated about this, it's just your voice bouncing on a note. :)

  • i think this was the best explanation in the world of how to sing vibrato. bravo

  • I am so trying this :D

  • Thanks so much for this tip! Its make it sound so hard to train a vioce to operate like that, I hope ill be able to do It one day, btw, were you a naturally born singer or you took vocal training?

  • @TheMichikoMalandro Judging from what whe knows about vocal training and technique, I'd say she has had some sort of training...

  • thank you so much...this is amazing!!!!=)

  • Hey there, please reply. I can do the last step without ease, but should I still do the 1st-5 step? Does this mean I can control my vibrato without me knowing it? I'm going to a voice lesson teacher on a week or so, but I'm trying to practice now. :] Thanks, your answer would be much appreciated!

  • thank you for the great video. btw, your are Such an alicia.

  • tQQQQQ!!!! it helps me ... A LOTTTTT!!!!!

    WEOWEOWEOWEOWEOWEOWEOWEOWEOWWW­WEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~~~!!!

  • THANKS FOR THE WEO VIBRATO LESSON!!! XD

    IT REALLY IMPROVES MY SINGING!!!!!!! I... wan... to cry..... T .T

    now that I can sing happy birthday to my friend =]

    lol

    and thanks to the police officer too! haha =D

  • I dont get it !! T_T

    I have to say what you do and when i get speed the oscilations comes all together and not one by one like at first ?

    I think that i do it with the stomach and that's wrong, isn't it ?

    I hope you understand me because my english is not good but... I'm triying hard to learn vibrato TT_____TT

  • damm...nice ! first try and i got it ! thanks ! hahaha easy , just keep the last word going going and going. make sure u hav hella air in my tummy. !

  • yours was the only helpful video! :)

  • My choir teacher, who is an excellent singer, says that a vibrato is natural and will come as your voice matures. I think it is unhealthy to do it on your own, you might pull your vocal muscle.!

  • this was fun!

  • man i never realised it would be this easy :D

    just gotta speed it up a little bit

  • But what you're teaching isn't natural vibrato where if someone were to hold a long note, it would come in naturally.

  • wut do i do if my vibrato seems to fast? how do i slow it down

  • This was very helpful!!!! Although the explanation was too quick! But thank you very much!!! :)

  • thanks for the advice!!! please keep making more and more videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i have a question...can you use vibrato in any song????

  • Lol instead of speeding up I do it louder!!

  • Haha I was doing this at 11:00PM and my mom walked in my room and was like "SHUT UP YOU"RE SO LOUD!!!! YOU SOUND LIKE A AMBULENCE!!!"

    Haha at least she said ambulence and not dying horse XD

  • I can never sing with vibrato and so far what I've learned is that when you do you have to sing with your diaphragm and not your throat but when I try this I feel like I'm singing with my throat :( I just can't do it :'0

  • this technique is helping (like a lot) but just curious how long could the process take , to have a vibrato like yours?

  • Just incredibly curious, how long could it take for me to have a vibrato like yours.

    Right now i'm doing everything your doing and its helping (like a lot) but its still a bit far from your vibrato ? help

  • I've just heard several old metal songs sung by Geoff Tate, Bruce Dickinson etc.. All i did was analyzing what they do in oder to achieve their voice. Today i can freely sing using vibrato in all sorts of notes.. Vibrato makes your voice sound so amazing. It's just like you sing straight from your heart.

  • How long does this method would show significant progression from flat voice in average? I tried to do this, but I feel its only focusing on mouth movement on getting the vibrato. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

  • You are a wonderful teacher!

  • When I do it It sounds unstable. Like it doesnt sound consistent

  • I feel like i will never get vibrato! I have tried so many things, and it's weak and horrible. I will give this a try, and let you know?

  • @DeeMusique You betcha, keep working on it! So many people think there is so much more to it than there actually is... and that's often because someone ELSE told them it was difficult!

  • @garethmagis usually I wouldn't approve a comment like this because I like to keep it G rated but that was hilarious!!! :-o Haha!

  • thumbs up if u came here from philip defrancos video.

  • WEO WEO WEO WEO WEOO WEOO WOO WOO WOO WOO

  • @ltlcrzymex05 wu wu wu wwu wu wu wu wuu wu wu wu wu wu ... o.O

  • ur cute!!!

  • Okay dude, i thought there was never a person who could make me succeed in any column about singing, here i am. Vibrato's coming my way.

  • 33 people dont have vibrato (: im working on my vibrato ! good luck to those who are trying !!! :D

  • Wow first I thought it sounded bad, but when you did it 5 times per second I was like WOW!!

  • Before, when i was singing i felt like i was rattling alittle, now that i learned this i feel like it sounds much better when i try vabrato! thank you SO much

  • It's working !!! i love you Alicia ! (h)

  • What about falseto? i've been practicing but i'd like some tips

  • ty so much i learnt it in one day! you helped me alot :) and i think im really talented XD

  • GIRL!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH IT SERIOUSLY HELPS!!!!

    :))))))))) IM SO HAPPY I WANNA HUG YOU!!! COME HERE :) Haha

  • You are a genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did it! 

  • i've learn it. thanks

  • Thaankk yoouu

  • Thanks for the tips. You have a very charming quality about you. Greetings from Milwaukee, WI.

    :)

  • Youre good, thanks for sharing!

  • Elisha Rae, pardon me if I were to misspell your name. I have a query and I hope that you can help.

    When I'm using the 2-none pitch siren technique for acquiring vibrato in your voice and whenever I try to speed up the oscillations between the 2 notes, my voice seems to have a tendency to "combine" the 2 notes into 1 and it doesn't sound dulcet al all.

    Are there any methods to counteract this problem? Am I doing something wrong?

    Or do I just need to practice some more like in the video?

  • I learnt vibrato because of this video and no other video has come close..... it wont come over night keep practicing!

  • i cannot thank you enough for these! I have a solo coming up for a competition and I'm really scared because i don't have vibrato and my voice wavers a lot and it seems like there's m=nothing I can really do about it. Is there any way I can stop that?

  • ..I love Gwen Stefani`s Vibrato its funky & different:)

  • I love your easy-to-follow video on how to sing with Vibrato, and the results are astounding, but I have a query.

    Whenever I try to speed up the oscillations, the 2 notes in the siren tend to combine into and sound like a single note. As a result, my head tends to tilt upwards and my lips shrivel a lil' bit, therefore producing a lower, softer sound.

    Is there any way to counteract this problem with methods? Or is it normal upon trying out for the first time and requires practice to overcome?

  • @Mirventus it sounds like you need to wqork on the delineation a little... maybe you weren't quite ready to speed it up yet, that's the hardest part. Anyone can sing wee ooo wee ooo but learning to bounce your voice quickly can be challenging. Again, keep working at it and in time you'll see improvement.

  • Thanks! that explained it very nicely

  • wow, this is an interesting way to learn it! I saw a vid telling me to gently press against my diaphram repeatetively (sp?) and itll just come natural. it worked a little, but this way gives a MUCH clearer way of knowing what vibrato actually is and how its produced. all in all, thanks!

  • Can you learn vibrato in a day?

  • Thanks everyoone for the wonderful comments, keep up all the great work! Once again, don't over-think it, vibrato is an EASY thing to do. I've been singing in opera, commercial, musical theater, in bands and teaching for over 20 years and I'm telling you this is really all there is to it. Just keep practicing if you're having trouble and you'll get it!

  • This is tricky. I can sing notes perfectly, but man, you must be pretty talented or have perfect technique to sing vibrato. Can't seem to nail it. Guess I'll have to practice a lot more.. :S

  • i can't seem to sing with vibrato in chest voice...any suggestions?

  • @nbkay69 I don't know if this will help but even "chest" voice always has some measure of head voice in it. You always need to keep the little door (muscle) at the top (above the roof of the mouth where you make a humming "e" sound open. Vibrato is a gentle, natural unforced or made spinning of air that is almost not even felt. I always think of my singing "apparatus" as an instrument made up of a column from my diaphragm going straight up over the roof of the mouth. Sincerely, Sam : )

  • i'm never gonna sing good i suck :( nothing will help me :'(

  • i sound like a howler monkey lol

  • omgg i think this can actually work!!!!:) yessss

  • i love this girl! nobody else taught it right or AT ALL! thank youuu!!

  • Agh! I tried this for a week. Once I got it right and it was really like vibrato. And then ever since I can't do it anymore :(

  • easy explained.

    i was exactly searching for something like this

    thanks a lot

  • Do these tips also apply to males?

  • wow, its that easy?

  • thank you very much for posting this video. it really helped a lot. i've seen some vibrato lessons here in youtube and your tutorial is the best. thanks again and by th way, you have a great smile. God bless!!! :))

  • OMG When you did that speed up of the ooo ooo ooo, I WAS LIKE OMG how did you do it so fast. . . well I guess I gotta practice then!!! This is my new mission for the new years. :]

  • Is this what you used to be able to produce vibrato? Or where there other things involved?

  • Oh my goodness, thank you so much for posting this video. all these other people were NO help at all. =)

  • it works!!!!

  • that's it! lol easy XD

    thank you so much

  • Thank you soooo much!

    It really works! Ive been trying to learn it for a month online but yours actually worked!

  • Alright this worked, just have to work on it more!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

  • thanks a lot !!!! you are the best teacher !!! :DD

  • thank you, great upload!

  • I was like OMG IT MAKES SENSE NOW. Hahaha Thank you so much!

  • thank you (:

  • thanks alot ! I just tried it and it helps alot. IT MADE A BIG IMPROVEMENT.

    the vibrato was my only problemm THANK YOUUU A LOOTT. and can you put on a video for the sopranos who would like to sing with a low voice.. cause I always try but its really hard. i almost struggle to sing with a low tone.

    THANKS :)

  • Wow thanks so much! Better than the instructions Miranda Sings gave haha she says to shake a body part =P

  • @JCF22Lyoko You know what, that actually can work sometimes... I have a student who SWEARS by that! It can be helpful to shake your hand while getting used to it. It's a "learning by association" thing. Good luck!

  • my vibrato is all sporatic and it annoys me so much

  • thanks!

  • my family thinks im possessed

  • omgg it really works (=

  • well lady, can yuh be my coach.!!???

  • go Susan Boyle!

  • hows about that johnny bush or ray price vibrato f$%k susan boyal

  • you helped a lot! :) thanks!

  • Thanks so much! Finally, a proper set of practical instructions. Luv you.

  • Excellent vid..thanks for posting this informative piece on vibrato. You really made it easier to grasp what the voice needs to do in order to "vibrate". Wow i have alot of work ahead of me.

    Hopefully my Husband doesn't judge me too much as i siren away like a police car.

    Haha!

  • @blisslilly1 Haha! T