Violin Lesson #22; Vibrato (hand/wrist)

[@MsShadX]

The greatest violin teacher on youtube, no big words no vague ambiguous feel the music kind of talk, just straight forward technique broken down to small steps....love it

[@annasolonenko3224]

Bravisimo Maestro❤!

[@Heath75032]

Thanks. I just bought my first violin at the grand old age of 66. For me the learning process is fun.

[@trabissalazar1966]

Ohh like me !!! Congratulations. Could we be friends for learning??? I' m from Mexico. Regards

[@bonnie04]

Professor, I've been playing the violin for 18 years now, and I'm quite good at the violin. I've got great arm vibrato but ALWAYS struggled with wrist vibrato (it was the one thing I've struggled with). I've had 3 teachers throughout my life, and have tackled this issue with all 3, but none of them could help me. Watching this video has helped me immensely with what I'm actually doing wrong with wrist vibrato. I'm so grateful you're doing vids on youtube. Thanks so much!

[@christopherhansen678]

Happy Sunday Bonnie... I would love to know you more better if you don't mind?

[@michelleodea]

hi, i just wanted to say thanks a million for this..i stopped playing violin when i was 12 because my teacher made me feel useless for not being able to get vibrato..15 years later i've just started trying to play again and its great to hear someone say that it's not an easy thing to do! it really makes me feel much better, thank you!

[@joumanarashad2895]

Out of the many videos on vibrato I watched, this helped me the most. I couldn't figure out how to move my finger until this video. I learned vibrato in an hour because of this.

[@joumanarashad2895]

Thanks!

[@professorV]

Glad it helped, and thanks for letting me know.

[@elizabethwalker3344]

Same! Well, except for the learning vibrato in an hour part. ^-^

[@Heath75032]

An hour? Lol.

[@musicislife2053]

Joumana Rashad same

[@AlanA-yn7yd]

70 yrs old, lifelong horn player. 2 months in on fiddle. 1 week with this video after many tries with other teachers and I can now produce vibrato! You are a genius teacher!

[@professorV]

Thanks, Alan. Best wishes with your violin studies!

[@rhyme103193]

You are one of the few violin teachers on youtube that talks in such a way that the students will understand you. That's very hard to find and that is a sign of a good teacher. I love your videos and they've helped me bunches!

[@gullamarin]

I started playing the violin when i was 3 years old and practised for 10 years. Im 20 years old now and i still play my violin at home, but seriously, Now I finally understand what my teachers were talking about when they told me to only move my hand above wrist. Thank you man :) and now I'm all excited because i was starting to think that i had forgotten all my talent and played really crappy violin. Im gonna practise the vibrado like crazy and my music's gonna sound so beautiful and dramatic

[@christopherhansen678]

Hello Gulla.... I would love to know you more better if you don't mind?

[@valyazhnaya]

I'm a cellist and am attempting to transfer my cello abilities onto the violin. I'm finding that I should just start from square one. These videos are awesome and I'm so glad I found ProfessorV. I'm at work right now driving my co-workers nuts by attempting to vibrate on pencils and rulers. I can't wait to get home and try this out on my fiddle! Thank you so much for posting these videos, @professorv!!!

[@christopherhansen678]

Hello Valyazhnaya.... I would love to know you more better if you don't mind?

[@fatihyalcn8796]

Well, i am currently following more than 20 violin channels, but you are the best violin professor. I rellay appreciate your videos. Regards from Turkey.

[@professorV]

Baran Yalçın - thank you very much. Best Wishes!

[@primozbeltram]

Thank you very much! I'm 50+ and start to learn violin a year ago with your lesson #1. I will try to learn vibrato now. Your lessons are extremely helpful. "Relaxed" word makes the magic.

[@Predo1064]

Best vibrato instruction on KZbin by a country mile, thank you very much

[@Galvathorax]

Best lesson ever! Just after casually practicing in that guitar position for 30 minutes while I surfed the internet. I was about to reliably play vibrato for the first time ever! It feels so easy now. Thank you. I will have to check out your other lessons.

[@TheSwampPrince]

Best Vibrato Video on KZbin. Hands down.

[@williamreidboyd2944]

You are such an excellent communicator Prof V. I hugely appreciate your videos.

[@lanawrightman4874]

Thank you, it was very helpful.

[@Kaughphie]

I'm 33 and just starting to learn violin; took it up less than a month ago in fact.. Your videos have helped me along quite a bit. Just wanted to say thanks.

[@bevy814]

I'm and older adult student using retirement time to learn violin. and I'm having a blast. I already play piano and organ. I take lessons at a local music school but I like to use you to fill in the gaps with clarification. You're very very good. You make it easy to understand and fun. Thank You

[@velderia]

This is possibly the best explanation for the vibrato... Ever.

[@PERUGINAGIRL]

Hi PV.. I REMEMBER LOGGING ON HERE 9 MONTHS TO THE DAY & watching your Vibrato Lessons which have helped.. I've been learning the violin for 1yr now as an older beginning student.. i have a long way to go if i continue. I just wanted to say hello & THANK YOU for the support you give via these VIDEO LESSONS which are wonderful! For some YOU are ALL they have.. for THEM i thank you.

[@xIIxForsakenangeLxII]

I have been playing the violin for 3 years and thought I was doing vibrato the right way.. I wasn't! Thanks! This video really opened up my eyes. :D

[@MySetDancer1]

One of the best communicators I have had the pleasure to encounter.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Excellent tutorial. I have played 'cello for over 40-years and vibrato on 'cello is fairly straightforward. I just bought a brand-new violin, and trying to get vibrato on it is difficult at best. This demystifies the process. Many thanks!

[@CpJubie]

Hi professorV :D I've been playing the viola for 7 years and never knew how to do vibrato until i watched this video. Because of your AWESOME help, i was able to succeed at vibrato after 2 months ;D I learned fast strictly because i'm left-handed, but without your help, i would have never gotten it down. Thank You so much, i just love it whenever my teacher compliments my vibrato :D

[@user-lm9td1ge4z]

I watched multiple videos on vibrato techniques and exercises and I just haven't felt like I was getting the right motion until I stumbled upon this video. I feel a lot more comfortable and I don't feel as frustrated. I'm still not perfect at it, but I'm practicing every day, thank you!

[@professorV]

Great! Good luck with it.

[@tuotuomomoed]

I feel the same way

[@abefawn]

i recently picked up the violin (2 weeks ago). i'd like to think i'm a fast learner. i'm taking what i already know about music and utilizing that in my journey to finally learn the violin. i have the notes down; i can read music; i can bow properly if i concentrate; however the vibrato is something that i found that i cannot teach myself to do. this video just got me really started on being able to perform a vibrato, and i hope that in a couple of weeks, using what you had taught us here, i will have learned how to do it. thank you very much. enormous help.

[@maxibazze]

As said before by others, this might be the best and most detailed tutorial on youtube, thank you!

[@synorslt]

Thanks for the video! I use hand vibrato and have a student who was struggling with arm vibrato who I think will get along better with hand/wrist but was struggling to translate what I do to him. I learned how to teach arm vibrato but never really got tips on how to teach hand vibrato. This was very helpful. I'm excited to work with him tomorrow!

[@rvb23]

wow, thanks...i needed this lesson so much. ive started working on my grade 6 violin, yet my teacher has never introduved me to vibrato. im dying to learn how to do it. thing is, when i have asked my teacher, he always said that vibrato is more like a natural gift...showed me briefly how to do it, and never mentioned it again to me. so im trying to get to it on my own now...so thanks from teh heart for this vid!

[@katherinetaylor4408]

Thank you so much!! There's something about the way you teach that comes off very clear and easy to understand. I am learning so much!

[@NingasKugon09]

Indeed, only Professor V made me learned and understand the vibrato motion...Thank you much Professor V! GBA

[@paranoidskit]

Thank you so much! I have been playing violin for years but i have never gotten the hang of vibrato. My teacher has helped me a lot but it hasn't worked. Thanks to you i can now do a decent vibrato while playing. Thanks :))

[@Mcguyer13]

Best tutorial on vibrato ever! Not like the other videos this one is learner friendly.

[@FlockofAngels]

WOW! I have wanted to learn how to do this! You make it seem easy and now that I understand the mechanics of how it is done I think I will learn it. I think playing the violin is all about the vibrato mostly. The vibrato is what gives it expression. I can't thank you enough for teaching this. I have nine stringed instruments that I can play proficiently and I think the vibrato is what has been in the way of me mastering the violin. it is the hardest of my stringed instrument to play. :)

[@seanskifstrom]

Thanks for posting. Just bought my first violin yesterday and ill be refreshing upon this video until I get it. By far the best vibrato vid I've seen.

[@Ringkomposition]

that's the only video actually taught me to play vibrato. thank you, you made me proud of myself!

[@RodolfoVanzini]

Thank you Todd, your lesson about wrist vibrato is tremendously helpful!

[@alwaysradical1613]

you sir at an angel. I thought so 10 years ago when I first saw this video, and I'm still watching to figure out my vibrato! I think I finally am getting it! 🤞

[@professorV]

That’s wonderful! I’m very impressed by your persistence and dedication and wish you all the best.

[@christianculanculan6452]

Thank you so much! I got rid of my doubts on how the fingers are supposed to move thanks to this!

[@CpJubie]

I have forever been searching videos on the different ways of vibrato. thanks to you, my questions are now finally answered. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!! i, have now discovered that i do vibrato differently than everyone else. When people talked about hand and wrist vibrato, i believed i was doing hand and wrist. turned out i dont do that, nor arm and finger vibrato. I do it a totally different way. I twist my wrist. I probaly came up with this method since i'm lef handed. But thank you so much.

[@BengalTigerSigma]

this is far most the best video on vibrato i saw so far

[@rachelwang4664]

i got soooooo much better at vibrato after i watched this. thanks for posting this.

[@arethaseraph]

professor this is VERY helpful. i have learnt the violin for 2 years and have never been able to do this. my teacher told me that i have to 'feel' it but i was never thought the proper technique to do it. thank you so much for making videos like this they are very very helpful! =)

[@Bassanomics]

awesome man, I'm the concert master for my orchestra, which isn't so experienced in play and your videos have helped our beginners tremendously, thanks again....

[@Aljoshaaa]

this is actually the best explanation of violin vibrato on the you tube, thanks buddy. Al best.

[@paul-phoenix]

I was only used to play with arm vibrato but thanks to this video i got the hang of both arm and wrist

[@SweetEthereal]

Thank you. Thank you. And Thank you! I used to think I would never be able to get vibrato. Now It's not as difficult as I thought it'd be. I'm already noticing a difference when I practice thanks to this video. :]

[@amjPeace]

Thank you soooooooo much for this great lesson on vibrato!!!!!!!!!! I'm taking baby steps like you say, and I have to be patient with myself. You just gave me a real boost in excitement that I will eventually get to make those beautiful sounds if I don't give up.

[@erino486]

Rawr!! I can never get this right! I keep moving my arm!!! -:P

[@kawaiicrafting1]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO! I have watched and listened to many people on how to do vibrato but this is so much better in detail and great exercises to get your wrist in the motion. THANK YOU!

[@epopcorns]

The up bow thrusts are SO helpful! thank you so much!

[@TheSSDrift]

i got to play a violin for the first time in 9 years today :) i couldn't get vibrato whatsoever xD i hope to be getting a violin maybe in the summer and i'll definitely be watching all these vids when i do! i'm completely head over heels in love with the violin :')

[@mswlogo1]

Been looking for a good technique to work into this for while and this is by far the best. Using the wood to force the right motion is great. Thanks for doing this.

[@Alfa_Virus]

Thank you Sir! You are a very good teacher, you explained this vibrato method very well!

[@hoanganhmai6627]

I love this video. I've watched all others but they didn't help at all. This is much easier but also more effective. Thanks alot for saving my life. I've been struggling to learn it for a year

[@luismarques4068]

Awesome teacher. Clear and concise explanation of a lot of relevant details and expected progression and challenges. Top class professor with excellent explanation/demonstration balance. I'm learning the violin alone and find your videos extraordinary. Huge thank you ProfessorV.

[@judithvanderbijl5938]

Thanks a lot for this! I've been playing the cello for about 13 years now and recently bought a violin, but for some reason vibrato on the violin is so much harder than on the cello. This is very helpful!

[@professorV]

Thank you and good luck, Judith!

[@LylyBennett]

Been watching vibrato videos for quite a while and finally found one that works out for me! Even though it's only a short burst, at least it's something, thank you!

[@AdityaPratapSingh-ss8wg]

I I do play violin and right now I am seriously being taught by you.

[@kathleenpeterson2385]

Encouraging being able to still get lessens from you Mr. Ehle! This is so helpful as I prep for an orchestra audition!

[@christopherhansen678]

Hello Kathleen.... I would love to know you more better if you don't mind?

[@dboyfff]

So in other words...to play vibrato each finger must rock...back and forth...so prior to all that...we imagine each opposite side of our finger nails can play a note...and we shift using the same finger to each side and that will naturally open and close our wrist...I would start off slow... After that we focus on sliding the finger along the cord and oscillating like you said...just throwing out some alternatives... WE all learn differently. YOU'RE A GREAT TEACHER.

[@VoiceOfPassion]

I watched a few of your videos now and I must say, I love the way you use your voice while explaining. It's so warm, gentle and motivating :) Thanks for that!

[@joniguitar9]

WOW! Thanks for the time and great attention and detail of how the fingers and wrist etal all come into "play" for vibrato...different from guitar starting with the way the guitar and violin are held--Joni

[@KrisLovesMoviess]

Im going to practice every day to be ready for the school year. If only there was some wax on wax off technique for my figures... Ah man.

[@magget16]

Best vibrato lesson I've seen, thanks so much.

[@dominicbalabat]

VERY GOOD EXPLAINATION!!! Yes, you're right... I wasn't aware that I used my finger joints... I'm following this... Hope I get it right now... take care.

[@imsmitty31]

This is perfect! I'm a teacher and have been really struggling with ways to teach vibrato but this video gave me some great ideas. Great examples for a difficult concept!

[@guitar_md]

Awesome video. Best on KZbin. I was so excited when I was able to do a "supported" vibrato after 1 day with this video. What I mean by "supported" is using the body of the violin as training wheels, as around 5:42 in this video. Not perfectly, of course, but enough to start to get a feel for it. It's gonna be a very, very long way to go to get a real vibrato with my hand in proper playing position, but I'm ecstatic that I can at least develop a feel for it now. Even with the "supported" vibrato, I have a ton of work to do, but this gave me a starting point that I was unable to get from any other videos I watched. Extremely difficult, yes. But now I feel like it's possible. Thanks so much!

[@Bluesman32323]

Wow! That was an excellent explanation. I've been struggling with vibrato for years. Thank you so much for taking the time.

[@bevy814]

thank you so much. your instructions are so clear and I can see what you're doing

[@nucleola]

This is the first time I tried out your video, and I'm already seeing results! :) Thank you so much!

[@dboyfff]

Wow, it's great the way you teach this. I think it can take a shorter time span if we imagine each side of our finger has a different note to express and play & we focus on building strengths by playing the outer side first or most distal part of our finger & then with the next bow stroke we shift to the inner or more proximal part of our finger so we are rocking our finger and wrist; once you have built up strength there about a weeks time for an adult after about 6 to 8 months of lessons.

[@tullochgorum]

I struggled with this type of step-by-step bottom-up approach, using Fischer and your videos. Margaret Rowell and Kato Havas offer a more organic approach, based on ensuring that the hand is truly relaxed and balanced. Then I found that vibrato came quite spontaneously and naturally - you simply visualise the finger teetering on the edge of balance like a tightrope walker. I went from no vibrato to a decent technique in a single 5 minute step. If you're relaxed and balanced, vibrato is a cinch!

[@TheJumpingpie]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! BEST EXPLANATION OF VIBRATO EVER!

[@KrisLovesMoviess]

Thank you my teacher is just teaching us hand verbrato and she is going to tell us more about this week so i am getting a head start THABNK U THANK u i am going to start practicing!!!

[@ElenaSalbod]

This video is so complete and very well explained, congratulations, even english is not my first language, I understood everything and got every detail. It helped a lot, seriously, thanks you.

[@saltybamboo]

Thank you sooooooo much for teaching me this! I have been struggling about vabrado for years!

[@cigarnationwarriors3981]

I’m going to follow your instructions and hopefully over time my 75 year old fingers will respond. Btw, my first teacher, Christopher Collins who helped me fall in love with the violin 15 years ago, studied under Richard Fuchs at UNC. You remind me of Chris. 🎻👍👍

[@professorV]

Awesome! Best Wishes to you.

[@orth82]

very helpful and informative! I just started learning vibrato and am still at the tortured-cat-noises stage, but feeling much more prepared after watching this :)

[@RionPhotography]

This is a really good explanation - so many videos make it way too complicated.

[@DaveDewald]

Thank you! You're an exceptional instructor; detailed and practical. Again, Thank you!

[@cottonycloud-]

I would just like to compliment you on your excellent video. What you said about practicing it all day, I suggest you do it while watching TV. You'll be surprised how easy it is afterward.

[@fdapproved16]

Thank you so much for posting!! It helps me a lot when I am practicing vibrato!!

[@berrytale]

OMG FINALLY!!! I can finally do vibrato!!! I'm soo happy :D You're the best teacher EVER!

[@Al1visioneer]

this vibrato technique video of yours is a better way for the beginners like me, thanks a lot :)

[@jononeil500]

What a great teacher! Thank you.

[@professorV]

Thank you, Jon. :)

[@veesvideo]

This is the first video of yours that I have watched. I like the manner in which you teach. I am a teacher as well, but for the piano. I have a violin and am interested in learning how to play it. I will definitely be watching your series and practicing daily. And hopefully, I will upload some piano lessons soon. Thank you for being an inspiration.

[@soccerdude247]

Beautiful violin! Excellent tutorial, as well.

[@trabissalazar1966]

Eurekaaaa its the better video for learning vibrato !!! Thanks a lot !! I love you !! I'll go to practice tomorrow. Thanks thanks thanks. Regards from Mexico

[@paglo1209]

I'm coming back to playing violin after 10 years... and I just realised I've never been doing vibrato properly, that's why it never sounded right! thank you!

[@pancakes6393]

thankyou so much! i just got my violin today and now i can do vibrato perfectly :)

[@reniegibson2048]

Thank you. This is a good tutorial. One thing that I struggle with that I have not seen addressed is the thumb and hand position. I can't figure out how to hold the violin and vibrato at the same time.

[@Hcxsjjitxaekoih]

Most helpful vibrato teaching video... thanks

[@Jamesftd]

Brilliant lesson, very detailed. My hand finally got the motion right after watching this! I already had my fingers and knuckles relaxed from vibrato on guitar but violin is so much harder. Thanks again, I feel like I should be paying you =P

[@projetomaisverde]

Thanks so much for your videos, professor! Me and my children are learning a lot with your lessons! Greets from Brazil!

[@Ghazi_Rizvi1]

THANK YOU SO MUCH IT TOOK ME ONLY A HOUR TO DO IT.

[@evelynderd]

This is a great video. I'm a newbie and I think this is helping me a bit. Thank you.

[@pikachoi2007]

Thanks alot teacher Todd for your time.

[@darkxzero13]

wow. thanks professor. i used to kinda artificial vibrato to sort of mask up my intonality. its a miracle. this video helped a lot. thanks

[@promeljain]

You are the best!!! God bless you!