Vibrato Depth Vocal Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com, we are going to be talking about vocal performance. The two dimensions, depth is how big a change we are making. So if I go, I am trying to do a vibrato, “I love you.” I am doing it so shallow, which you cannot hear, has to be deep enough… and then we can hear and not so deep that it sounds stupid… So there are definitely two issues there and the second issue is how fast we do it. We cannot do it too quickly because it sounds nervous, “I think you are fine and I am so glad,” it’s like “what’s wrong with that guy, he has had too much coffee,” and then the extremes of too slow it is simply we were quick hearing it as a vibration. So that will exercise and speeding it up will help your vibrato… think of it as loud and soft, don’t let it be frequency sharp and flat, although if we put on a StroboConn, a big tuner, anyone who is doing vibrato there will be a slight fluctuation of pitch there but much less if you are trying to do it loud and soft. "