Violin Lesson #22; Vibrato (hand/wrist)

**See my new vibrato video, VIOLIN VIBRATO TUTORIAL- NEW TIPS FOR RELAXATION** This video is part 1, wrist/hand vibrato. Part 2 is about arm vibrato.

[@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?

[@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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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!

[@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. :)

[@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.

[@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!

[@Predo1064]

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

[@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?

[@TheSwampPrince]

Best Vibrato Video on KZbin. Hands down.

[@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!

[@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 for it is HARD! 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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@MySetDancer1]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@williamreidboyd2944]

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

[@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

[@maxibazze]

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

[@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?

[@RodolfoVanzini]

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

[@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.

[@Mcguyer13]

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

[@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

[@Aljoshaaa]

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

[@NingasKugon09]

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

[@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.

[@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 :))

[@velderia]

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

[@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!

[@lanawrightman4874]

Thank you, it was very helpful.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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! =)

[@Ringkomposition]

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

[@Alfa_Virus]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@epopcorns]

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

[@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

[@bevy814]

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

[@christianculanculan6452]

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

[@magget16]

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

[@BengalTigerSigma]

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

[@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.

[@rachelwang4664]

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

[@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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@soccerdude247]

Beautiful violin! Excellent tutorial, as well.

[@tyneastwood7175]

Thank you very much for this vibrato video-lesson! I am working on it:) Have a nice day

[@fdapproved16]

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

[@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!

[@nucleola]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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....

[@projetomaisverde]

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

[@DaveDewald]

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

[@TheJumpingpie]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! BEST EXPLANATION OF VIBRATO EVER!

[@Bluesman32323]

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

[@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. :]

[@Al1visioneer]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@apostasiaelegcho5612]

Excellent instructor.

[@evelynderd]

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

[@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.

[@swordgz]

Thank you for that excellent lesson. I really appreciate it.

[@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!

[@promeljain]

You are the best!!! God bless you!

[@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!!!

[@Hcxsjjitxaekoih]

Most helpful vibrato teaching video... thanks

[@condeamericano]

Gracias profesor... Es una explicación bastante detallada y a la vez sencilla que me ayudó mucho..! Saludos desde San Carlos, Cojedes. VENEZUELA..! Very thank you..!

[@drjoshearl]

Wow, that was really fantastic. Thanks for the great lesson! I thought there was a lot of really excellent information.

[@RionPhotography]

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

[@eh024680]

Hello, This video is excellent. Well explained, and presented. Wonderful training! Thank you, ProfessorV. Eddie Hodges/ Philadelphia, PA USA

[@solopolo33]

It is trully awesomely explained! you rock!

[@saltybamboo]

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

[@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.

[@1969echo]

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation on using this technique. It was really explained very clearly, allowing me to be able to understand how to do Vibrato. :)

[@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 :')

[@jononeil500]

What a great teacher! Thank you.

[@professorV]

Thank you, Jon. :)

[@tullochgorum]

The post below is not a criticism - I know your video is the standard approach and it's very clear. Just wanted to point up an alternative. Also, when I do achieve a relaxed hand, I find the scroll keeps steady even if I leave the base of the first finger in contact with the neck, which helps keep things simple...

[@mjbaek9497]

Hello~ This is Korea. Your video has been very helpful to me. Thank you!

[@aserher215]

I'M SO FREAKING SUBSCRIBING TO YOUR CHANNEL!!! you're a really good teacher :)

[@Gilberto39509]

Tks ... For the vibrato video . Verry Verry nice ... A great saluto from Sicilia !!!!

[@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.

[@firedude911]

Hey professorV, first off really quick...love your videos, and thanks for takin the time to do them ! I had a quick question for you about vibrato.....is there a difference between the standard classical vibrato, and the vibrato you might here in country music ? There is something about it in country that sounds different than classical......maybe "wider" ? not as fast ? its hard to say ! If you have any ideas Id love to hear it, thanks !!

[@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