How to have the BEST Vibrato 🎵 [4 Easy Steps]

Work on perfecting your vibrato with these 4 easy exercises!

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Step 1
1:06 - Step 2
2:24 - Step 3
3:47 - Step 4
4:36 - Additional tips

[sabrinai]

"I struggle with many things, but not vibrato!" 😂 Best intro of 2024 for a lesson yet.

[AdorablyAnastasia]

I hope you make more tutorial videos like this this year! You have a really unique way of explaining things that makes learning violin a bit less scary 😅 I’m gonna go practice now!

[conniemckenney]

Sometimes, when I'm doing chores, I log into Tonic, join an open studio, and just leave my phone playing while I do chores. It's like getting a free concert 🎉

[elizabethcrumbley]

I absolutely love this method! I'm a teacher as well and was looking for a good way to explain vibrato, but I couldn't find a good video to go with how I was taught. I was taught to keep the wrist loose, but slowly work into the arm vibrato with a loose wrist. I feel like this video works well with your part two on vibrato from 7 years ago. You don't really say it in this video but when you go into playing the excerpt from Thais Meditation I can see you combining the wrist and arm vibrato and that's what I was looking for!

[nkviolinstudio]

From my experience, when students learn wrist vibrato in the third position, after returning to the first position, they often wobble their wrist. I started teaching arm vibrato first, and then, once they understand that vibrato is mainly done through the finger stretch (knuckles), I guide them through these wrist exercises... btw. great video!!

[colormepiano]

“you’re hitting your face with imaginary balls” 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😭😭😭

[IllonoD-nzwk]

The slow vibrato where the notes go above and below are very useful if you want to play indian classical repertoire. That sort of sound is very intentional and common in that type of music.

[arielkaya]

Since I just got my first violin at the ripe age of 34 (after dreaming of it for the past 23 years)... I can't wait to get past the first screeches and learn vibrato with you😂

[AmandaViolinGirl]

4 days to go and it will be exactly 5 years since I started violin. 15th January. I still can't do vibrato properly. I do have a teacher.

[wfkpmhc]

I end up shaking the violin when trying to do vibrato

[carletto.spitaleri]

can you make a tutorial about how to use correctly the bow? i asked many teachers but they didn't were sure because my hand is really big, and knowing you are like the best violinist and have big hands we think you would teach me the perfect technique... hope you see this :)

[TheLukeas]

Thank you so much for sharing😊
I literally managed to learn vibrato in 2 days of a practice!

Very helped the "string cleaning" exercise, all is about relaxing the fingers, giving a bit of tension to the strings and getting that "bouncing ball" motion.

[tiffcat]

What a charmer, love the talent, the humour, the fab smile, the enthusiasm, the relatability. I bet some people who follow on YouTube (etc) & who had no intention of taking up violin playing have done so! 😹 ❤🎉❤

[PianoMaskGuy]

Watching your videos inspired me to take up the I am a week I used to be a professional oboist and went to the Royal College of Music. I am loving being a violinist now. Thank you so much for inspiring me :-)

[jnee]

Wow, a new trailer: Tchaikovsky. It can also show what to do whenever handling string breaks. Also, massive recovery mid section.

[WadeKing-dmhw]

Best instructional video so far. I have neuropathy in my hands now. Getting my fingers to collapse while sliding back in forth is the hardest for me

[vivanlosmichis]

Aprendiii!!! Que emoción, buenas técnicas 💗

[sedai]

I was NOT expecting a tutorial video come up in my page, , when I just bought a violin .. what surprised me is that the tutorial is from UNCLE RAY HIMSELF !!!

[Skinny_Karlos]

Thank you, Ray for this upload.I've been playing violin for years but for some reason just never cottoned on to getting my vibrato happening. This, really quite simple set of steps, which I WILL do every day, seem to be achievable for me to get a vibrato in my arsenal.
Thanks again,
- Mark, Australia

[rosechen]

Very helpful for starters like my 8-year old daughter! Thank you so much for sharing!😊