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Hey! Welcome to guitarlessons.com. I’m Nate Savage. In this lesson, we’re going to be talking about vibrato. A couple different kinds of vibrato you can use and a couple different players you can checkout to see kind of what you like and help you develop your style of your own vibrato.
So let’s start off by looking at that, a couple different kinds of vibrato. One of them is the classical method of vibrato, the other one is the one I like to call, or I like better word there Johnson vibrato because that’s where I learned it from. And the last one we call the Eric Clapton or bluesy vibrato.
So let’s take a look at the classical vibrato. If you take, let’s try the B note on your high E string, put your finger on there, so your middle finger, hit that note, just walk back and forth like that. I’m over exaggerating it for you, so you can get an idea of what this should be like. I do it fast learning, give me idea of what would sound like [Demonstration].
Now if you to mild or more subdued kind of vibrato effect, this is really a good tool to use. It’s not too strong, real subtle. Now the second one we’re going to learn is like Eric Johnson-type vibrato where you take your whole wrist and push up on the string to make the vibrato effect instead of just moving your finger back and forth. I’ll show you that really slowly then we’ll talk a little bit about it, some of the more new ounces about it.
[Demonstration]
Now if you notice, my thumb is coming up a little bit over the fret board right here to help me get some leverage and most of the motion I’m using for my vibrato, it’s coming from my arm and my wrist, pushing up on the string. You can move this anywhere. But that’s one method that I really like and I really personally like the sound of that vibrato, so I use that a lot.
Now Eric Clapton, if you watch him, some of the fist vibrato is little more regular or little bit more rugged a little bit more—not sloppy, but kind of nasty for blues kind of a sound and that’s going to sound a little bit like this [Demonstration], little bit wider. So you see my thumb is coming over the fret board to give me a little bit more leverage because the vibrato is a little bit wider. Instead of being shallow like this, add some wild like this.
So experiment with those three types of vibrato, listen to players like BB King, Phil Keaggy, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson to get a good idea of a wide variety of vibrato sounds that you could choose from to kind of emulate and make up your own vibrato style.
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