Vibrato

shaunm

That is one thing I really do need to keep an eye on my intonation. I get overexcited and over play it. That's something I need to be concentrating on at all times or it just goes to hell.

Clarky

if you've made some technique changes then it'll take a little time to settle in..

a few of my students [when they first came to me] bent and vib'd with the fingers rather than the wrist… tut tut.. lol..

of course I set about fixing that..

initially all of them started over-bending here and there because they were not used to the extra power made available by the forearm muscles…

eventually they all settled down and managed to hit the target note with far better accuracy far more consistently..

we all over-bend from time to time.. sometimes it's just a heat of the moment thing..

shaunm

Back from the dead again! 

@Clarky I’m still working away at this.

https://youtu.be/NBqxpvA39yE

Clarky

shaunm said:

Back from the dead again! 

@Clarky I’m still working away at this.

https://youtu.be/NBqxpvA39yE

very nice indeed...
the rotation is very clear.. you can see it by rotational the movement of your little finger's knuckle

the bending is smooth and accurate.. the vibrato is clear and uniform..

nicely done matey....

shaunm

Clarky said:

shaunm said:

Back from the dead again! 

@Clarky I’m still working away at this.

https://youtu.be/NBqxpvA39yE

very nice indeed...
the rotation is very clear.. you can see it by rotational the movement of your little finger's knuckle

the bending is smooth and accurate.. the vibrato is clear and uniform..

nicely done matey....

Thank you, it’s only been two years since the initial post. Slow learner!

Clarky

shaunm said:

Clarky said:

shaunm said:

Back from the dead again! 

@Clarky I’m still working away at this.

https://youtu.be/NBqxpvA39yE

very nice indeed...
the rotation is very clear.. you can see it by rotational the movement of your little finger's knuckle

the bending is smooth and accurate.. the vibrato is clear and uniform..

nicely done matey....

Thank you, it’s only been two years since the initial post. Slow learner!

I wouldn't say slow learner... lol.. 
you started heading in the right direction pretty soon after first started talking about this..
what does take time though is to become so familiar with something new that it becomes second nature..
so you never think "ah yes.. I have to do that rotation thing again"..
you simply do it without thinking as it is now a part of you..

you are playing wonderfully in that video..
you really should be feeling more than a little pleased with yourself..

shaunm

@Clarky it’s very nice of you to say so. I am pleased that my playing in that style has developed. In the band I’m in I don’t do too much in a bluesy style. It’s just what I like to play at home.

Fluency in playing is a whole other issue isn’t it. That’s what makes a good player in my eyes, that ability for passages to flow seamlessly. I know the truth is mindless repetition but it’s the vision to get to those passages in the first place that evades me.

Gassage

shaunm said:

So to practice this I've been playing Need your love so bad over and over tonight.
It's really easy to hear my vibrato flaws on this track. So it's great to try and get this song clean. Its also a great track for practising my phrasing and timing.

Any other song ideas to work on this technique?

Shaun,

Here's a few you may enjoy- and they're long solos.

Moonshine by Kossoff (Free)- it's fucking amazing
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - DG obviously!
Bird of Paradise - Snowy White

shaunm

Gassage said:

shaunm said:

So to practice this I've been playing Need your love so bad over and over tonight.
It's really easy to hear my vibrato flaws on this track. So it's great to try and get this song clean. Its also a great track for practising my phrasing and timing.

Any other song ideas to work on this technique?

Shaun,

Here's a few you may enjoy- and they're long solos.

Moonshine by Kossoff (Free)- it's fucking amazing
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - DG obviously!
Bird of Paradise - Snowy White

Thanks James, I don’t know the Snowy White one. I will go buy it. 

Koss was something else though wasn’t he? His note choice was limited but it just doesn’t matter. There’s a couple of notes in the Come Together in the Morning solo that just floor me. Simple but evocative on a different level to almost all other playing I can think of. 

DG’s finest moment in my opinion, sums up his playing. An absolute legend.

Playing like those boys is just a dream isn’t it.

Clarky

shaunm said:

@Clarky it’s very nice of you to say so. I am pleased that my playing in that style has developed. In the band I’m in I don’t do too much in a bluesy style. It’s just what I like to play at home.

Fluency in playing is a whole other issue isn’t it. That’s what makes a good player in my eyes, that ability for passages to flow seamlessly. I know the truth is mindless repetition but it’s the vision to get to those passages in the first place that evades me.

fluency is king...

it's a little like ice hockey..
most of us have to focus all of our attention on just trying to skate, hobble or in my case, just stand up without going ass over tit.. hockey players just focus on the game they're playing and skating and what they do with the stick is as normal and natural as walking and running..

bringing it back to guitar... bending, vibrato, your touch, timing, phrasing and all the many minute details...
you have to get them to the point where you don't think about them..
they're simply things that occur naturally and instinctively