Video: Vocal Vibrato Techniques For Singing Better

This Season: Tailgating; New Year, New You; Tax Time

Get tips for improving singing with vibrato with expert music tips in this free vocal coaching video clip from a professional music theory teacher.

View all 7 Comments

Comments

Michael Apr 22, 2011
this is incorrect. vibrato is regular variation in pitch. when singing or playing a note on an instrument using vibrato, the note will sound in tune if the variations in pitch center on the desired pitch. this guy has no idea what he's talking about. it is true that many singers tend to utilize a regular variation in amplitude along with their vibrato (out of habit or intentionally) but this is (obviously) amplitude variation (tremolo) not vibrato (pitch variation... look it up if you don't believe me). best to avoid taking musical advice from someone who cannot demonstrate the skill they're supposed to be teaching... or anyone who drops vacuous platitudes like 'all instruments are trying to be the voice' haha. what a joke. there's no way this guy has any skill on any instrument, including the voice.
susmix Aug 02, 2008
god..i needed this technique!...and urs is the best. thanks !!!
susmix Aug 02, 2008
god..i needed this technique!...and urs is the best. thanks !!!
moonydontcry Aug 02, 2008
THANK YOU!! You chould know your one of the few free vocal trainers, and your proabebly helping millions of young vocalist like myself growing vocal wise. I have been looking everywere for someone who would help me and meny others.
moonydontcry Aug 02, 2008
THANK YOU!! You chould know your one of the few free vocal trainers, and your proabebly helping millions of young vocalist like myself growing vocal wise. I have been looking everywere for someone who would help me and meny others.

Video Transcript

We are going to be talking about vocal performance. First off our vibrato is going to be amplitude vibration that is a modulation. We want it to be loud and soft, not sharp and flat. I can vibrate vibrato like this “aaaaaaaaa!” That is sharp and flat. You can’t be in tune if I am going D, D#, D, D#, how am I going to be in tune with the D? I can’t. But I can be in tune to if I am being loud and soft. So if you have trouble with your vibrato, I want you to do is little exercise. I want you to imagine your quarter notes and one beat will be loud and one beat will be soft and so we’re going like this… I am not trying to vibrate, I am thinking loud and soft. So you start doing it do that with me right now… Take that exercise and gradually speed up. You want control but as you speed up, you will get to a speed where we no longer hear it as loud and soft what we hear it as a vibration. So going… “I love you, I need you” and you heard me getting putting it in and putting taking out slowing down, speeding up, the ear tracks all that stuff so it constantly goes “Dude, that’s really cool or really emotional or powerful.” I am not saying that I did it particularly good, I am just saying that’s what vibrato does. It makes the voice – all instruments are trying to be like the voice. The voice is alive, and all instruments are trying to be like the voice and vibrato is one of the distinctions that makes the instrument sound alive.

Follow eHow: Follow @eHow

Vocal Vibrato Techniques For Singing Better

Comments

Related Ads

Related Articles & Videos