Vibrato Techniques for Jazz Trumpet

[@dhightone6755]

Doc Severinsen consistently used trumpet hand vibrato and achieved excellent results throughout his career, when playing jazz and other genres of music. Hand vibrato is the best technique for performing very even vibrato, at a vibrato rate of your choosing, on long and very long notes. It is also the best technique to use if you are trying to match the vibrato rate of other musicians in your performance group.

[@joseph2832]

Always thoughtful!

[@matth6932]

Thanks for the vid! I use the mouth/jaw to add a little flair. I never found the hand comfortable. It can be a subtle nuance rather than a main feature.

[@user-fl8rk9od5l]

Excellent video!! I am a composition student and it would help me a lot to know more about harmonic glissandos on the trumpet and what are their possibilities in terms of speed and melodic agility I hope you can make a video on the subject, thank you very much for sharing such interesting information so clearly!!

[@aire4222]

thanks

[@nickmartorano6766]

Excellent lesson!

[@soroka.luthier]

Thank you, both worked like a charm!

[@davidkelly1220]

Cheers for 📫

[@vancenimtz2311]

What about tongue, like most everyone in Neworleans does?

[@animalsoverpeople_]

Super helpful!

[@blow-by-blow-trumpet]

I totally suck at jaw vibrato but have always felt fairly comfortable with hand vibrato. That said I hardly ever use it when I play. Is it worth pursuing jaw vibrato? Chet Baker and Miles Davis hardly use any and they are my two favourite players so maybe I'm just not a vibrato guy.

[@RidgewoodSchoolofMusic]

I think you should stick to whatever works best for you. I also come from the Miles school of trumpet vibrato, and I tend only to use lip/jaw vibrato as an effect from time to time. You could dive deeper into jaw vibrato practice if you wake up one day really wanting to sound like Freddie, but short of that, stick with what works!

[@western5881]

I didn't know how to do vibrato on trumpet, so I tried things out and intuitively came to use "diaphram" vibrato. Is there a downside to choosing this kind of vibrato? I find that it is difficult to control the "speed" or frequency of the vibrato, but maybe that's just because I'm a beginner. I really like Stan Getz on some of these Bossa Nova albums and am wondering if you can make a trumpet sound like that. I'm sure it's much more difficult on trumpet than sax if possible.

[@dansteep3472]

I can personally testify to putting lip vibrato on almost everything. It took so long to shake the habit.

[@ThankyouJword]

Dudes lighting is jazz