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When I started this thread I was struggling with my vibrato. I have tried to work on it. When I got a new guitar a few weeks back I thought I'd record it. What I thought I'd do is just throw it up on here for a little bit of advice from you guys. I know the playing is ropey, it is really just a bit of rubbishy improv that I didn't think about (and it shows).
Please let me know what your thoughts are on the vibrato. I find it easier to shake the guitar rather than from the wrist for some reason.
I think your vibrato on the regular fretted notes is very good, sounds particularly suited to your bluesy playing.
Your vibrato on the bent notes seems to be coming from a lifting of the forearm (at the elbow) rather than a rotation of the wrist (like your bends and regular vibrato are produced).
It doesn't sound bad, but might impede you when applying vibrato to shorter notes or in rapid sequences of notes. you should find it easier to control the pitch of the bend with a rotational vibrato too.
I wouldn't call your playing shitty at all..
I liked it..
For the whole time I've played I've just not added vibrato to bent notes on the E and B strings and just slid up to the appropriate note. How lazy is that?!?
Not Lazy, just finding your own way.
We are lucky that we are able to enjoy the learning process all along the way, only needing to add or improve as we see fit.
I remember as a teenage boy watching "Maiden England" and wanting to have Vibrato like Dave Murray. It was hard trying to work out how he did it without anyone to point me in the right direction. Just had to watch which parts of his hands/arms were moving in which way.
If I'd had Youtube or forums to ask more advanced guitarists, I'd have been a better player now.
you seem to move around the neck very comfortably and quickly.. your timing and phrasing are good..
thing is.. we all get very used to our own sound, note choices, licks 'n' tricks.. so we can all perceive ourselves as sounding a bit stale. this is not unusual at all.. and likewise we can look at other players and find them so interesting and exciting to listen to.. in reality though it's not because they are necessarily better, more like it's because they are different..
@Clarky - again, thank you for your kind words. That is the first time I've put a video up on here before.
What you said is so true, also I keep listening to a lot of SRV at the moment which is doing wonders for my lick library but nothing for my confidence as he makes it all so easy. It's the fluency that blows me away with people like him, Robben Ford and Larry Carlton. It's all second nature, the notes just jump from their amps right from the mind - or so it seems.
I've still been practising my vibrato. This is a little bit of free playing at a blues jam last night. Personally I thing that my vibrato is starting to grow up a little. It's far from perfect but it's better.
Any advice would be great as always. I find it really useful to share on here.
https://m.soundcloud.com/mallia222/60s-blues
@Clarky what do you think? Any improvement?