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[jspangler01]

This guy's lessons are awesome, but the 15 year old in me can only imagine..... Mom: "Johnny! What are you doing in there?"

John: "Nothing mom! I'm polishing my strings! Go Away!"

Mom: "OK, but if I don't hear vibrato in 5 minutes I'm coming in!"

[TheTradge]

I've always found it much better to think of vibrato as more vibrating up and down the string rather than rolling the finger, I was always taught that rolling your finger up and down was a really bad vibrato technique. try using your forearm as opposed to your wrist to aid your vibrato, it's much simpler and gets a clearer vibrato.

[scorcher219396]

@TheTradge that's the way you do vibrato on a violin or viola, but on cello the correct form is to roll your finger.

its hard to maintain a smooth bend if you are trying to keep pressure on the string and slide it up and down the string

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[dastardlyexpressions]

@TheTradge It depends on what you meant by your original comment.

I never said Rolling was how

When i hear vibrating i think of an elbow/shoulder shaking which uses a lot of tension

[TheTradge]

@dastardlyexpressions I was taught that by a senior cello professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which is one of the best specialist music schools in the country, so I think it's safe to say that he's a qualified teacher =) and it's REALLY bad practice to roll your finger when doing vibrato, its far too fiddly! Who taught that you should roll? They're teaching quite badly if they're teaching like that

[dastardlyexpressions]

@TheTradge That is not proper vibrato technique.

I don't know who told you that but they are not qualified as a teacher.

I also used to do that though. It's wrong.

[SomewhatSuitable]

If it sounds good, you're doing it right. That's the only rule of music. Make it sound good. Unless you are purposely trying to make it sound bad, then that's the exception. That's why music is awesome!

[shadow3278700]

2:03 thats what she did lol

[snootzie78]

Thanks for the tips. I still have this habit of doing the "door knob" vibrato. How can you get your arm more involved in doing cello vibrato?

[1likestoplaymusic]

great!! Thanks:D