Harmonica Practice Tips #2 Developing Throat Vibrato Technique
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- This is a practice routine to help develop the muscles in your throat so that you can achieve a well controlled throat vibrato. If you are new to throat vibrato only do this exercise for a short while to avoid causing discomfort. You need to gradually build the strength in these muscles.
Thank you Ricky
Great lessons thank you
Roughly where in the uk you live?
I am based in Birmingham
Hey Ricky , any advice on how to get a better vibrato with bends?
I struggle with the bent notes and the mechanism I'm fudging brings the air away from my throat and into my mouth in order to maintain the bend note. Many thanks for these tutorials.
Hi. On bent notes I use different vibrato techniques. Probably the easiest is to make and hold the bend then move your tongue back and forward whilst focussing on maintaining the bend. It can sound a bit over the top if your not careful. Another relatively easy technique is mouth vibrato. Make the bend, hold it and move your jaw up and down. Throat and diaphragm vibratos also work but are a bit trickier to master. Here’s a link to a video I did on throat vibrato:
ruclips.net/video/1PSRVc3E7Pk/видео.html
I hope this helps. Let me know how you get on.
Best wishes,
Ricky
@@rickycool100 Cheers for your response Ricky, I can do the tongue method on the bends but it feels like cheating and the timbre isn't as tasty as the throat on the unbent notes that you demonstrate here! Thanks for all your help
@@J.M.Stigner I think you’re right. The tongue method is often used for more of an effect rather than a properly controlled vibrato.
@@J.M.Stigner try wrapping a belt around your belly, over your bellybutton, and doing this practice:
Breathe as he is showing you here, but make sure you feel the pulses in your belly pushing against the belt… this will make sure you are using your diaphragm and not your lung/mouth pressure. You won’t be able to get a nice thick throat vibrato without learning proper diaphragm breathing. Also, be sure to learn the difference between vibrato, and tremolo. What’s being shown here, is tremolo. It’s close, but not the same, especially when used melodically.
Does throat vibrato affect pitch? Or is it mostly varying volume/intensity?
Hi. A true vibrato is a slight pitch variation. Strictly speaking a throat vibrato is more a tremelo effect. Tremelo being slight changes in volume. With throat vibrato you are really controlling the flow of air which will alter the volume of the note, which shouldn’t alter the pitch. That’s my understanding. 👍
@@rickycool100 okay, thanks!