Hi Allison, Brad here and I just wanted to let you know that your online lessons have improved my life greatly. my grandfather on my mother's side played the violin but passed on when I was still a baby. it makes my mother so happy to hear the violin again. thank you so much and I look forward to learning vibrato from you.
I remember when I picked up my vibrato I was actually one of the first in my class to get it. I was so proud of myself lol. If anyone reads this ,and are struggling just Relax! If you are tense when trying vibrato you're not going to get it. :)
Hi all, I just wanted to announce my NEW website: www.alisonsparrow.com/ Its basically my RUclips Channel, but MUCH better categorized and organised! Hope you like it, Alison :)
I just started playing about a week ago. No lessons yet. I've watched your videos tons of times and I'm playing through the pain and the screech like you say. After a week I can play twinkle twinkle little star and the beginning bits of Canon in D! Doesn't sound the best, but I have the notes down. And I just learned how to read sheet music today, now have to learn from sight faster. All because of YOU! :)
Absolutely! First just practice getting the idea and the movement, then once happy certainly start playing it in pieces as this is after all the ultimate goal. You will only get so far just practising the movement until you will need to put it into practise! Good luck!
Thank You!!! Much easier and more motivating technique than some others. Already noticing better results. I really appreciate you sharing the amount of time this might take and showing how it will sound in the beginning. Great teaching.
This is the best video on youtube I have seen to help one play vibrado on the violin. You do a great job of both showing and telling us how to do it. The "roll from one side of the fingernail to the other" is what helped me get it. It took me about 2 months (I played as a youngster so perhaps that sped the learning curve). However, not until now, at age 38, have I learned how to do vibrado on the violin. Many thanks to you!
Hi, Its just my way of explaining 'how to do vibrato' and it works for me and my students and other here on RUclips also. Whether its a tip to pad, side to side, tip to side or pad to side motion - whatever, the way I choose to explain it is side to side because when students do actually 'get' vibrato, it works out perfectly. The explanation is a means to an end and by no means definitive and even though I merely describe it as 'side to side' it gets the job done.
A lot of the other videos don't explain in a way I understood, so this makes so much sense. I've been trying and giving up since I was a teen so hopefully I will get it down with practice.
Your videos are such a great help. I haven't played for 15 years and re-started 3 weeks ago. Once in a while I'm so frustrated but watching your videos helps me to continue practicing. Thanks from Germany.
0:33 this is so true. I've started playing violin 6 months ago and I was so anxious to learn vibrato. I play only twice a week and sometimes I dare myself to try vibrato but gave up most of the time. Several attempts until last night I was surprised I've finally got the "muscle memory" to do it. It's so good to hear while I'm playing the pieces I was playing before, but with the enhanced quality from the vibrato. Thanks for the tips!
Compliments on another excellent lesson. I am a cellist by training, but I am teaching myself Viola due to a complication from diabetes which has affected my hand and finger strength. I remember one of my teachers instructing me on vibrato. She had me move from the note, back toward the scroll and back to the note again in a series of counts: first quarter notes or quavers, then eighth notes or semi-quavers, then sixteenth, and so on. These were done in sequence with each finger every practice session, much like your scale practice schedule. The result was complete fluidity and control of my vibrato within a couple of weeks. until then, it had been baffling. Anyway, thanks for the excellent tutorials. BRAVA!!!!
I would like to say I love how you are teaching to verbrato and the method you used. I am a beginning orchestra player and after watching the video, I feel like my verbrato skills have progressed.
I learnt violin from when I was little til the end of high school and the Vibrato always got me. Your lessons are better than the grumpy old man I had haha
Your explanation is very helpful. I recently got the little book Viva Vibrato, which helped unlock the mental block I held and has great exercises for tempo vibrato. The most frustrating part of vibrato is really, really, really understanding that it takes months of practice to develop. I now have a sad, baby step, vibrato, and video lessons like yours give the encouragement to keep going and developing. Thank you so much
Being a guitar player since I was 9, im 24 now, I never thought vibrato would be that difficult on violin. Since I already know it very well on guitar, but boy was I wrong! I feeling, the movement and the speed of it is just so different and foreign. I was completely surprised on how difficult it actually would be for me to pick up on violin! but little by little I'm getting there. Haha, at first I was so discouraged I felt like I was a terrible musician since I couldn't create vibrato on violin but I could on guitar lol, but not anymore, and I completely see the difference now! Alison, your videos are amazing and I am so thankful, you're the reason I was able to learn violin. You brought a joy in my life that will exist forever, and I couldn't even put into words what that means for me! Never forget that! You have such a big impact on musicians from beginner to advanced! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!
Alison, thank you so much for this. I started learning the violin about a month ago and I picked it up rather quickly. I fell it's mostly because of my 25+ years of experience playing other instruments (focusing on guitar, mainly), but I knew the moment I picked up the violin that vibrato would be a challenge because it's not unlike manipulating notes on a fret board, but because the technique is so dissimilar. I knew it would take months for me to accomplish this, but I'm so glad you reiterated it. I have faith in every word you say. If you have extended online or DVD lessons, I'd love to purchase because I have searched other online tutors, but no one can compare to you! Anyway, anyone reading this has found the right teacher for the job when it comes to studying violin.
I just got a violin 4 days ago, I have been playing guitar for years but I always wanted a violin. I have been watching alot of your videos. I have to say out of all the videos I have watched you are definitely the best instructor I have found so far :) thanks to you I have done really well so far, I have learned twinkle twinkle Little Star and somewhere over the rainbow :) thank you for all the helpful information you are awesome! I look forward to watching the rest of your videos
Thank you for stressing that this will take months to learn and for showing what a beginner sounds like. I feel much better about this now and I am going to stick with it.
Oh my gosh, thank you. My teacher hasn't taught me this at all, so I wanted to learn and every video I found, they always said something about how the wrist should be moving and I always focused on that. This is very helpful, thank you for posting it.
i am having problems with people hearing me practice. i feel so bad whenever I practice my violin because they (household folks) bring me down so much. they just do not understand the idea of practicing, they expect me to practice like playing a perfect paganini, and whenever they hear me miss notes or hit notes not on the right spot they would give me comments equating to the instrument is not meant for me or i am no good. I am so frustrated and so angry. I hope you could, or anyone, help me overcome this.
Lenoff Arce Yes, lol, I totally understand - folks just dont get it, especially those who dont play. They dont understand that one has to practice to play like Paganini - they expect us to just pick up a piece of music and play like him first off! Incredibly frustrating, but life. You will have the last laugh eventually as you will/can do something they cant and they know it takes time, practise and dedication to play any instrument! You could try the Ultra Practise mute: ruclips.net/video/Wejcn2_WHBY/видео.html
so this is how the mute works. thank you for responding dear teacher :) hope to be better off one day and truly have the last laugh. a million thanks :)
Lenoff ,if you can afford $150 you can get a Cecilio electric violin from Fiddlerman.com. It is incredibly silent. I can play mine at 3:00 am with my headphones on ,(yes, you can plug this in an amp or headphones that comes with it ,plus a bow and case). It is a godsend and Pierre and his son Mike are fantastic to do business with. I have the metal mute that does quiet my acoutic violin down some but, this violin is great. This is not a toy. Ebony fingerboard, chinrest, tailpiece with four tuners ,and great finish. Allison has done a video on the red one. Good luck.
The Online Piano and Violin Tutor BTW Allison, Besides Fiddlermans site, you are the other site that I go to for information on the violin. I think that you're not only gorgeous but, very very talented.
Thanks for spelling out how long it takes. ALSO so helpful to hear how student will sound at different stages. It is so easy to get discouraged so knowing it WILL sound that bad helps. I put it off for 30y because i was rubbish at it and 'couldn't do it'! Ok so 6mo starting now! BTW sound another teacher who recommends practicing shaking a shaker in the l hand in correct position to build the muscle memory/coordination in the wrist. I've been doing that and it started out so uneven, and is getting better. Can do this walking around the house.
Thank you for posting this. I'm so rusty and I never learnt to do it from a teacher rather than people in my sixth form orchestra. Now I know the technique it's started to sound dodgy but getting better! These videos are awesome!!!!
what you describe is very common and WILL go away when you get better. Its why i say it will take weeks and months, but you have to get over this part first to get anywhere. :)
lol, perhaps you have been!! Vibrato and the whole concept will take time to develop and progress so patience is something of a must. Stick with it though regardless off the sound and progression as it will come eventually - i promise! Dont give up just because you feel you are not getting anywhere as it will only seem that way....hope that helps, Alison
Okay, thx! Because I have been playing viola for 2 yyears now and am impatient to learn how to vibrato with my teacher! The sound is so beautiful when a person know how to vibrato that I want to know how to do it NOW! :)
Changing my wide, off the guitar neck blues vibrato to a subtle, elegant, and expressive violin vibrato is making me change the way I hear music. I guess we have to change minds before we change behaviors. Fantastic lessons. I wish you could teach patience!
Thanks Alison. I will continue using your method.I was going to say it's nice that I have another way of doing it but, I don't want to go around the correct way just to achieve a vibrato. Thank you so much for replying.
It's been five months since I learned the violin and I want to have a background with vibrato and I think this is the best one for me to have a background on vibrato. Very helpful and informative. I'll just keep on practicing until I get better :) Thank you Ms. Alison :)
I very much appreciate this video. Been playing fiddle for about five years and never could get the vibrato to work. Seems effortless when I watch others do it. This is the first time anyone's told me that it takes MONTHS. Make me feel much better to know this as I always thought you either just have it or you don't. As to the 'finger' vibrato, I currently use it but it's a very limited motion aside from the fact that it looks pretty silly.
Hi Alison - I always enjoy your tutorials. I've been playing the violin for over two years now, and I still can do neither arm nor wrist vibrato correctly. Whenever I attempt to do arm and/or wrist vibrato, my bow hand uncontrollably shakes. I can do a fake finger vibrato without my bow hand shaking, but a fake finger vibrato, as you know, doesn't count. Even if I never "break through that wall" that won't discourage me from playing my violin. I shall neither become "frustrated" nor "annoyed." I will always enjoy playing the violin (minus correct vibrato if need be). Besides, when I play my violin as a fiddle, it doesn't require vibrato...maybe a little staccato and a bit of pizzicato. 😉 Furthermore, I can always do plenty of effortless vibrato on the several other treble clef instruments that I play, be they brass or woodwind without dismay. 😊 🎼 ♫ 🎶
This is easily the best explanation I've found so far. I can't replicate it now but I managed to do a vibrato sound! Just for a little bit. So excited. Thank you!
Thank you very much. I have been trying for a long time to get the hang of vibrato but as I am self taught student it was hard, and all the other videos just left me even more confused. Thank you
I totally agree. I would never say anything like that to my students as i know it can feel degrading toward the student and make them feel like giving up as you say - well, keep going regardless, sounds like you are getting there :))
Thank you so much! This is super helpful. I remember when my teacher taught me, dropped a rubber ball and told me that the waves of vibrato should look like that ball: wider at first and then narrower toward the end.
I am just focusing and concentrating on moving / rolling the finger nail from one side to the other side as you said at 8:12.... it seems working... as you said it will take months to master, I hope I am on the right track. I love your videos and clear way of teaching... Thanks a lot and much appreciated !!
YES! It is VERY frustrating. I get frustrated when people who have been playing for less than a year get it down.......I guess it's just me being jealous....
your videos are so helpful i bought my violin of my dad because he never played it (i was inspired by Lindsey Stirling- Crystallize to learn) i have had it 3 days now still on lesson 6 one finger notes, getting ahead of myself trying vibrato i cant seam to keep the bow continuous and role my finger i made 1 whaling noise but like you said takes a long time to get, just wanted to express my gratitude that your giving your professional time up for free :D shows a real love for music :D
Thank you. This is one of about 4 videos that I watch to finally learn vibrato correctly. I had been using a vibrato technique adapted from guitar and learned it was totally wrong. After one month, I have down the "siren" sound and am at the point of completing 4 cycles of back and to the target pitch at 40 bpm. Hopefully, I will have a controlled vibrato in a couple months. Thanks again for you very clear instruction. Yours is one of the more "down to earth" presentations. It's also more clear in your video that it involves a side to side finger movement. For some reason, so far, it seems to be easier to get the siren sound in higher positions.
Have you seen this one? ruclips.net/video/CH1L5gfBGYU/видео.html Its just a little more updated than this video as this was done back in the day when I had crappy lighting and a crappy camera etc. If you send me a private msg, I will send you a link to another vibrato video I made and uploaded about 2 weeks ago, which isnt even due to be released yet - hence why I dont want to post that link here.
Wow great vid, Thanks for that, one of the most clear,straight forward easy vids I've watched on this subject, will certainly watch other vids of yours. Thanks.
Amazing! It's my first time doing this! I practice on the side of the violin, and I've moved up to the neck, it's easier than I thought! Thank you so much!
I can live with that. The confused posters can now understand it better. You are great to listen too and do explain things really well. You dont have to post any of these posts by the way.
Thank you so much. I've tried vibrato 3-4 times and couldn't do it at all. I have a solid beginning to a future decent sound after watching this I think.
Yeah! I'm the 40000th watcher! Nice Alison. I'm a guitar player, and convinced myself I can play violin. Because of you, I actually can! Thank you very much.
thank you! i will try to do vibrato now. i hear professional do it all the time, and i really want to do it. my violin class did not get there yet, but i want to try it! i have learned all my first position notes, so i should get started now!! :)
Thank you for your labor and time. Whole violin lessons you shared are very helpful.. I've just started to learning violin seems hard but I work on it everyday. :)
thank you so much, I've been looking for a vibrato lesson that actually showed me what their hand was doing. At first I always though you shook your hand back and forth not side to side because I couldn't quite see the movement of their hand and figure.
When i try to do vibrato, either the bow stops moving (because when i start concentrating on 1 the other stops or slows down) or my fingers stop moving and its really annoying.. Is there a tip or trick to prevent this from happening too much?
I've been trying with vibrato for a long time. It never looked right, so now that I finally know how to do it correctly, I will be able to practice it correctly. :)
Thank you so much! I thought the basic of learning vibrato was really hard, as I used to try to learn from another video. But this one is way easier! Thank you! :) I'm also learning from your piano tutorials, the very beginning. :) You're a really good teacher! :D
hi ! i just want to say : your video helped me very much. i begun to play like 7 mounths ago and i tried some times to make a vibrato but nothing else than a crying cats ^^. i've learn some score but they all mist a vibrato and in the same time i xas looking your video i tried and do what you say and HOP ! magic. i'll work on it now i've understand how to do. thanks you !
Vibrato takes a good while to get down properly. Once you have it, you will be able to fully manipulate it any way you like in various situations and pieces.
Thank you so much! Ive been trying to learn how to play the violin by myself and ive been trying to find out how to do vibrato. I couldn't have figured out how without this video. :)
finally someone who can properly explain the basic idea of it
Radu Popescu Thanks. Glad you found it helpful! Did you know i have an updated video i did after this one? ruclips.net/video/CH1L5gfBGYU/видео.html
Hi Allison, Brad here and I just wanted to let you know that your online lessons have improved my life greatly. my grandfather on my mother's side played the violin but passed on when I was still a baby.
it makes my mother so happy to hear the violin again. thank you so much and I look forward to learning vibrato from you.
I remember when I picked up my vibrato I was actually one of the first in my class to get it. I was so proud of myself lol. If anyone reads this ,and are struggling just Relax! If you are tense when trying vibrato you're not going to get it. :)
+beth harding it'll happen when I graduated high school there where still Seniors (18 Year olds) picking it up.
Thx sometimes I feel tense and my shoulder hurts too XD.
its not rolling it is side to side movement
BethanTheCoolGirl xx Come again?
I feel like I like doing vibrato on the guitar better than on the violin...
Yeah, it is Really difficult i agree. But i did it in 4 weeks. Dont give up, guys
Hi all, I just wanted to announce my NEW website: www.alisonsparrow.com/ Its basically my RUclips Channel, but MUCH better categorized and organised! Hope you like it, Alison :)
Thank you.
I just started playing about a week ago. No lessons yet. I've watched your videos tons of times and I'm playing through the pain and the screech like you say. After a week I can play twinkle twinkle little star and the beginning bits of Canon in D! Doesn't sound the best, but I have the notes down. And I just learned how to read sheet music today, now have to learn from sight faster. All because of YOU! :)
SAME!!!
Your words are a real motivation for those struggling with vibrato...patience is the key
Absolutely! First just practice getting the idea and the movement, then once happy certainly start playing it in pieces as this is after all the ultimate goal. You will only get so far just practising the movement until you will need to put it into practise! Good luck!
You're honestly the best...i cant believe i got my vibrato in just about less than a month with this video
How nice of you to say. Thank you and you are very welcome. Alison
Thank You!!! Much easier and more motivating technique than some others. Already noticing better results. I really appreciate you sharing the amount of time this might take and showing how it will sound in the beginning. Great teaching.
just go for it! you enjoyed it before and im sure you will again. Just start slowly until you get back into it. Thats it really
This is the best video on youtube I have seen to help one play vibrado on the violin. You do a great job of both showing and telling us how to do it. The "roll from one side of the fingernail to the other" is what helped me get it. It took me about 2 months (I played as a youngster so perhaps that sped the learning curve). However, not until now, at age 38, have I learned how to do vibrado on the violin. Many thanks to you!
Hi, Its just my way of explaining 'how to do vibrato' and it works for me and my students and other here on RUclips also.
Whether its a tip to pad, side to side, tip to side or pad to side motion - whatever, the way I choose to explain it is side to side because when students do actually 'get' vibrato, it works out perfectly. The explanation is a means to an end and by no means definitive and even though I merely describe it as 'side to side' it gets the job done.
A lot of the other videos don't explain in a way I understood, so this makes so much sense. I've been trying and giving up since I was a teen so hopefully I will get it down with practice.
Your videos are such a great help. I haven't played for 15 years and re-started 3 weeks ago. Once in a while I'm so frustrated but watching your videos helps me to continue practicing. Thanks from Germany.
0:33 this is so true. I've started playing violin 6 months ago and I was so anxious to learn vibrato. I play only twice a week and sometimes I dare myself to try vibrato but gave up most of the time. Several attempts until last night I was surprised I've finally got the "muscle memory" to do it. It's so good to hear while I'm playing the pieces I was playing before, but with the enhanced quality from the vibrato. Thanks for the tips!
Compliments on another excellent lesson. I am a cellist by training, but I am teaching myself Viola due to a complication from diabetes which has affected my hand and finger strength. I remember one of my teachers instructing me on vibrato. She had me move from the note, back toward the scroll and back to the note again in a series of counts: first quarter notes or quavers, then eighth notes or semi-quavers, then sixteenth, and so on. These were done in sequence with each finger every practice session, much like your scale practice schedule. The result was complete fluidity and control of my vibrato within a couple of weeks. until then, it had been baffling. Anyway, thanks for the excellent tutorials. BRAVA!!!!
I've been playing violin with the wrong position my whole life until recently, and I wanted to start vibrato right. Thank you so much for this!
I would like to say I love how you are teaching to verbrato and the method you used. I am a beginning orchestra player and after watching the video, I feel like my verbrato skills have progressed.
I learnt violin from when I was little til the end of high school and the Vibrato always got me. Your lessons are better than the grumpy old man I had haha
Your explanation is very helpful. I recently got the little book Viva Vibrato, which helped unlock the mental block I held and has great exercises for tempo vibrato. The most frustrating part of vibrato is really, really, really understanding that it takes months of practice to develop. I now have a sad, baby step, vibrato, and video lessons like yours give the encouragement to keep going and developing. Thank you so much
Dear Alison, THANK YOU SOOOOOO MACH for your vibrato video. it is indeed so simple and so ammazing.
Being a guitar player since I was 9, im 24 now, I never thought vibrato would be that difficult on violin. Since I already know it very well on guitar, but boy was I wrong! I feeling, the movement and the speed of it is just so different and foreign. I was completely surprised on how difficult it actually would be for me to pick up on violin! but little by little I'm getting there. Haha, at first I was so discouraged I felt like I was a terrible musician since I couldn't create vibrato on violin but I could on guitar lol, but not anymore, and I completely see the difference now! Alison, your videos are amazing and I am so thankful, you're the reason I was able to learn violin. You brought a joy in my life that will exist forever, and I couldn't even put into words what that means for me! Never forget that! You have such a big impact on musicians from beginner to advanced! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!
Alison, thank you so much for this. I started learning the violin about a month ago and I picked it up rather quickly. I fell it's mostly because of my 25+ years of experience playing other instruments (focusing on guitar, mainly), but I knew the moment I picked up the violin that vibrato would be a challenge because it's not unlike manipulating notes on a fret board, but because the technique is so dissimilar. I knew it would take months for me to accomplish this, but I'm so glad you reiterated it. I have faith in every word you say. If you have extended online or DVD lessons, I'd love to purchase because I have searched other online tutors, but no one can compare to you! Anyway, anyone reading this has found the right teacher for the job when it comes to studying violin.
This is great! Best tutorial for Vibrato I've seen yet! thank you!!!
Thank for this! I've been playing the violin for a while now and this really will help me learn my vibrato!
I just got a violin 4 days ago, I have been playing guitar for years but I always wanted a violin. I have been watching alot of your videos. I have to say out of all the videos I have watched you are definitely the best instructor I have found so far :) thanks to you I have done really well so far, I have learned twinkle twinkle Little Star and somewhere over the rainbow :) thank you for all the helpful information you are awesome! I look forward to watching the rest of your videos
Thank you for stressing that this will take months to learn and for showing what a beginner sounds like. I feel much better about this now and I am going to stick with it.
It works! Thanks I was always concentrating on the wrist and not much on the finger and now I get it!
Oh my gosh, thank you. My teacher hasn't taught me this at all, so I wanted to learn and every video I found, they always said something about how the wrist should be moving and I always focused on that. This is very helpful, thank you for posting it.
i am having problems with people hearing me practice. i feel so bad whenever I practice my violin because they (household folks) bring me down so much. they just do not understand the idea of practicing, they expect me to practice like playing a perfect paganini, and whenever they hear me miss notes or hit notes not on the right spot they would give me comments equating to the instrument is not meant for me or i am no good. I am so frustrated and so angry. I hope you could, or anyone, help me overcome this.
Lenoff Arce Yes, lol, I totally understand - folks just dont get it, especially those who dont play. They dont understand that one has to practice to play like Paganini - they expect us to just pick up a piece of music and play like him first off! Incredibly frustrating, but life. You will have the last laugh eventually as you will/can do something they cant and they know it takes time, practise and dedication to play any instrument!
You could try the Ultra Practise mute: ruclips.net/video/Wejcn2_WHBY/видео.html
so this is how the mute works. thank you for responding dear teacher :) hope to be better off one day and truly have the last laugh. a million thanks :)
Lenoff ,if you can afford $150 you can get a Cecilio electric violin from Fiddlerman.com. It is incredibly silent. I can play mine at 3:00 am with my headphones on ,(yes, you can plug this in an amp or headphones that comes with it ,plus a bow and case). It is a godsend and Pierre and his son Mike are fantastic to do business with. I have the metal mute that does quiet my acoutic violin down some but, this violin is great. This is not a toy. Ebony fingerboard, chinrest, tailpiece with four tuners ,and great finish. Allison has done a video on the red one. Good luck.
pfretman Lenoff Arce here is my review: ruclips.net/video/HdGsEZxqhDQ/видео.html
The Online Piano and Violin Tutor BTW Allison, Besides Fiddlermans site, you are the other site that I go to for information on the violin. I think that you're not only gorgeous but, very very talented.
Your Tutorials are golden ! You are a born Teacher. Thank you.
Guess You were born with a Violin in your hands !
You are SO generous to share your knowledge, and your instruction exceeds excellent!
Thanks for spelling out how long it takes. ALSO so helpful to hear how student will sound at different stages. It is so easy to get discouraged so knowing it WILL sound that bad helps. I put it off for 30y because i was rubbish at it and 'couldn't do it'! Ok so 6mo starting now! BTW sound another teacher who recommends practicing shaking a shaker in the l hand in correct position to build the muscle memory/coordination in the wrist. I've been doing that and it started out so uneven, and is getting better. Can do this walking around the house.
Thank you for posting this. I'm so rusty and I never learnt to do it from a teacher rather than people in my sixth form orchestra. Now I know the technique it's started to sound dodgy but getting better! These videos are awesome!!!!
what you describe is very common and WILL go away when you get better. Its why i say it will take weeks and months, but you have to get over this part first to get anywhere. :)
your the best i have had a violin for 5 days and can already play 3 songs because of you thank you so much for all the help
lol, perhaps you have been!! Vibrato and the whole concept will take time to develop and progress so patience is something of a must. Stick with it though regardless off the sound and progression as it will come eventually - i promise! Dont give up just because you feel you are not getting anywhere as it will only seem that way....hope that helps, Alison
Okay, thx! Because I have been playing viola for 2 yyears now and am impatient to learn how to vibrato with my teacher! The sound is so beautiful when a person know how to vibrato that I want to know how to do it NOW! :)
Your method is the best explanation I have heard yet. Thank you so much!
Changing my wide, off the guitar neck blues vibrato to a subtle, elegant, and expressive violin vibrato is making me change the way I hear music. I guess we have to change minds before we change behaviors.
Fantastic lessons. I wish you could teach patience!
if you feel confident to do so, go for it! I would have the basics down first, but after that, YES!
Thanks Alison. I will continue using your method.I was going to say it's nice that I have another way of doing it but, I don't want to go around the correct way just to achieve a vibrato. Thank you so much for replying.
It's been five months since I learned the violin and I want to have a background with vibrato and I think this is the best one for me to have a background on vibrato. Very helpful and informative. I'll just keep on practicing until I get better :) Thank you Ms. Alison :)
Good way of learning vibrato! This will take a lot of practice for me. Thanks Allison!
VERY helpful and thoroughly explained video! this is the first one i found that made sense!
Ty so so much for ur vids, so nice to see that ppl like u exist, spending ur time on teaching others for free. Thank u and happy new year :)
I very much appreciate this video. Been playing fiddle for about five years and never could get the vibrato to work. Seems effortless when I watch others do it. This is the first time anyone's told me that it takes MONTHS. Make me feel much better to know this as I always thought you either just have it or you don't.
As to the 'finger' vibrato, I currently use it but it's a very limited motion aside from the fact that it looks pretty silly.
This is a good lesson and something ive always had trouble with and wondered how the great violinist do it, thank you much.
We need more of all the beginner techniques by you!! Really love your clarity!!!
Hi Alison - I always enjoy your tutorials. I've been playing the violin for over two years now, and I still can do neither arm nor wrist vibrato correctly. Whenever I attempt to do arm and/or wrist vibrato, my bow hand uncontrollably shakes. I can do a fake finger vibrato without my bow hand shaking, but a fake finger vibrato, as you know, doesn't count.
Even if I never "break through that wall" that won't discourage me from playing my violin. I shall neither become "frustrated" nor "annoyed." I will always enjoy playing the violin (minus correct vibrato if need be). Besides, when I play my violin as a fiddle, it doesn't require vibrato...maybe a little staccato and a bit of pizzicato. 😉
Furthermore, I can always do plenty of effortless vibrato on the several other treble clef instruments that I play, be they brass or woodwind without dismay. 😊 🎼 ♫ 🎶
This is easily the best explanation I've found so far. I can't replicate it now but I managed to do a vibrato sound! Just for a little bit. So excited. Thank you!
Thank you very much. I have been trying for a long time to get the hang of vibrato but as I am self taught student it was hard, and all the other videos just left me even more confused.
Thank you
I totally agree. I would never say anything like that to my students as i know it can feel degrading toward the student and make them feel like giving up as you say - well, keep going regardless, sounds like you are getting there :))
Thank you so much! This is super helpful. I remember when my teacher taught me, dropped a rubber ball and told me that the waves of vibrato should look like that ball: wider at first and then narrower toward the end.
I am just focusing and concentrating on moving / rolling the finger nail from one side to the other side as you said at 8:12.... it seems working... as you said it will take months to master, I hope I am on the right track. I love your videos and clear way of teaching... Thanks a lot and much appreciated !!
you're a great teacher,very specific teaching
I have seen other tutorials, but this one by far is the easiest
YES! It is VERY frustrating. I get frustrated when people who have been playing for less than a year get it down.......I guess it's just me being jealous....
That’s very rare, most people, are expected to learn it at their 5/4th year of learning
your videos are so helpful i bought my violin of my dad because he never played it (i was inspired by Lindsey Stirling- Crystallize to learn) i have had it 3 days now still on lesson 6 one finger notes, getting ahead of myself trying vibrato i cant seam to keep the bow continuous and role my finger i made 1 whaling noise but like you said takes a long time to get, just wanted to express my gratitude that your giving your professional time up for free :D shows a real love for music :D
Thank you. This is one of about 4 videos that I watch to finally learn vibrato correctly. I had been using a vibrato technique adapted from guitar and learned it was totally wrong. After one month, I have down the "siren" sound and am at the point of completing 4 cycles of back and to the target pitch at 40 bpm. Hopefully, I will have a controlled vibrato in a couple months. Thanks again for you very clear instruction. Yours is one of the more "down to earth" presentations. It's also more clear in your video that it involves a side to side finger movement. For some reason, so far, it seems to be easier to get the siren sound in higher positions.
Have you seen this one? ruclips.net/video/CH1L5gfBGYU/видео.html Its just a little more updated than this video as this was done back in the day when I had crappy lighting and a crappy camera etc.
If you send me a private msg, I will send you a link to another vibrato video I made and uploaded about 2 weeks ago, which isnt even due to be released yet - hence why I dont want to post that link here.
You are such an awesome teacher! I think I finally got vibrato down thanks to you! So pretty also!
Wow, you explain very well! Thank you, your students must be lucky to have you as an instructor.
oohhhh. best online tutor ever! you fired up my determination to learn more! thank you and more power! God Bless!
Wow great vid, Thanks for that, one of the most clear,straight forward easy vids I've watched on this subject, will certainly watch other vids of yours. Thanks.
Amazing! It's my first time doing this! I practice on the side of the violin, and I've moved up to the neck, it's easier than I thought! Thank you so much!
woah! Thank you very much!!! I can actually play the vibrato a little bit now! I'm going to practice more! Thank you again!
I love how you teach. Simply amazing.
Start by with holding it like a guitar - brilliant! That shook things loose fast!
Thank you for this open and clear explanation. It has helped me a great deal.
You are a good teacher.
I can live with that. The confused posters can now understand it better. You are great to listen too and do explain things really well. You dont have to post any of these posts by the way.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom on this technique
This helped so much i always thought it was like a wrist movement and less in your fingers
Thank you!, after 9 years your teaching still great!
Thank you so much. I've tried vibrato 3-4 times and couldn't do it at all. I have a solid beginning to a future decent sound after watching this I think.
Yeah! I'm the 40000th watcher! Nice Alison. I'm a guitar player, and convinced myself I can play violin. Because of you, I actually can! Thank you very much.
thank you! i will try to do vibrato now. i hear professional do it all the time, and i really want to do it. my violin class did not get there yet, but i want to try it! i have learned all my first position notes, so i should get started now!! :)
Thank you for your labor and time. Whole violin lessons you shared are very helpful.. I've just started to learning violin seems hard but I work on it everyday. :)
OMG! Thankyou!
That was very helpfull i have been practicing it and i finally got it thanks to this Video.
Thanks again and May GOD bless you!
Thanks so much. I just started playing violin 3 months a ago and I'm in 5th grade but still got it on my first try!
This tutorial actually helped! Thank you so much!!
You're such a great teacher!! Thanks! It is a pretty awesome video. I perfectly understood! :)
You're awesome!
I can't wait to try this!
(I promise to be patient.)
I am very happy to happened to see your video. Thank you. I am a beginner.
Enjoyed your kind tutorials, will continue to watch and wish you all the best. Thanks for sharing beauty and stay beautiful :)
This video is just SO PERFECT! Thank you so much!!
thank you so much, I've been looking for a vibrato lesson that actually showed me what their hand was doing. At first I always though you shook your hand back and forth not side to side because I couldn't quite see the movement of their hand and figure.
you may just be the best vibrato teacher ever!
When i try to do vibrato, either the bow stops moving (because when i start concentrating on 1 the other stops or slows down) or my fingers stop moving and its really annoying..
Is there a tip or trick to prevent this from happening too much?
+TheCupcakeFiles Have you been playing less than a year?
The Online Piano and Violin Tutor Its been like about 2 months? Its really hard to concentrate on doing vibrato while moving the bow
+TheCupcakeFiles ruclips.net/video/exmrX0jC3NM/видео.html
+The Online Piano and Violin Tutor I need your help I have to learn vibrato within a month because I'm supposed to do it for a solo on april 9 2016
+Wildest Dreams oh that's a predicament.
Dear Allison,
Thank you very much for your honest and realistic explanations.
Greetings from Armenia :-)
wonderful tutorial! It really helped me get the concept
I've been trying with vibrato for a long time. It never looked right, so now that I finally know how to do it correctly, I will be able to practice it correctly. :)
Thank you so much! I thought the basic of learning vibrato was really hard, as I used to try to learn from another video. But this one is way easier! Thank you! :) I'm also learning from your piano tutorials, the very beginning. :) You're a really good teacher! :D
hi ! i just want to say : your video helped me very much. i begun to play like 7 mounths ago and i tried some times to make a vibrato but nothing else than a crying cats ^^. i've learn some score but they all mist a vibrato and in the same time i xas looking your video i tried and do what you say and HOP ! magic. i'll work on it now i've understand how to do. thanks you !
You are SUCH a good teacher
Thank you very much :)
you did a really good job and i got it almost immediately
Vibrato takes a good while to get down properly. Once you have it, you will be able to fully manipulate it any way you like in various situations and pieces.
Thank you so much! Ive been trying to learn how to play the violin by myself and ive been trying to find out how to do vibrato. I couldn't have figured out how without this video. :)
this.video help us a lot
Just the perfect channel for me in my violin journey 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩