This is gonna be our last lesson out of this course, it's gonna be most likely your most important lesson that we'll go through. And what we're going to do is work on vibrato. So an example of vibrato is emotion, you get a lot of feeling out of the musicality that's being played versus straight notes. Right. So there's some tricks to be able to do via bronto. And some of us may have learned by bronto incorrectly.

And this is going to be more of a classical style playing vibrato. So here's some exercises that we can do. The first step is Getting the right motion. So vibrato starts with your elbow. And it's kind of like walking up to your neighbor's door and knocking on it. So from the elbow is going away from you, and then coming back to its original point, and then going away from you and then coming back to its original point.

Now that we have the right motion, we're going to get into how our fingers flex. And typically when we do this, our hand is going to be faced towards us. But I'm going to show you this way with my palm faced out so that you can see it on the screen. Now, when we're pressing down on our strings is less pressing down and more The arm hanging down in that pressure from the arm hanging down, creating the pressure enough so that our finger doesn't slip. And what I mean by that is, you're gonna set your finger down so that the fingers are curl down, and then your arm is simply going to pull down slightly. And what I mean by slightly is like a centimeter.

And that centimeter pressure with that down pressure is going to be what you need to have your finger not slide as we move our arm back and forth. Here's some exercises that we want to try to do with their fingers. Now, we want to make sure that our knuckles are loose. So that means we're not pushing down with a lot of force, because if we push down with too much force, the finger won't flex. But instead, if I loosen my finger up Just taking my fingers, the muscles in my fingers and loosing 100% you're going to be looking at it as though your eyeballs are looking at your fingernail. Now, I'm going to get my hand in this way so you can see on the camera, but notice that I have no pressure in my finger whatsoever.

And you can see this if I grab a hold as a pincher for my thumb and my index finger, and I grab a hold of the middle finger, and I simply just gently rock it back and forth. Now if I get hopefully this doesn't get too bright on you. But you can kind of see that it flexes from this joint and it flexes from this joint. I'll do the slow motion. So if I had too much pressure, I wouldn't be able to move it and but I'm I'm not getting a whole lot of down pressure from this knuckle. If you were climbing a mountain and you got to the very top You had to get your fingers over the ledge, and then pull yourself up.

So, right so you're pulling yourself up. If you had your fingers and they were flat, they would simply fall off. Right. So in order for your your hands get a good grip, you'd have to get your fingertips on the top and then pull down. And that pressure downwards with your arm is the thing that you put your pressure with, not the the pressure of your finger 10 sitting, right. So I hope that makes sense.

To get yourself to be able to be as loose as you need to. You're going to have your right hand and your right arm come out in front of you so that your palm is facing towards you. Like you're reading a book right now. You Your hand that you do vibrato with which is your left hand is going to be in front of your right arm. See, you're going to curl your middle finger around so that it sits right in the crux of this knuckle and this novel in the middle right there, there's just a little bit of a divot. And that middle finger is going to set there.

Okay? And so that you can see it, I'm going to turn my finger around, but it's going to be looking towards you. You're going to move your hand this way. Well, this hand stays put, when I'm when I say this hand, it's going to be your left arm stays put your right arm moves back and forth this way. Okay, and when that happens, You have the right amount of pressure, your finger will wiggle back and forth. As you can see it I'm going to do it opposite.

And you can see what I'm doing it I'm putting the proper pressure on that these knuckles are allowed to flex. And with that flex, you're getting that vibrant emotion that we're looking for. If it's too tight, it won't flex. But if I loosen that pressure up it is allowed to flex. Okay, so now that we have the right part of our hand doing it, and again, for you, instead of me showing you how to do it, palm face towards you, the other palm face towards you, but it's in, in back of your hand. But you're seeing mine in front my hand so it's behind, right and then the finger curls around and then we do the Motion.

The second step, if you can do that correctly, is to instead of moving the right hand back and forth, you're going to have the right hand stationary. Okay, now that we have the right hand stationary, the finger is going to come up, and we're going to move from our elbow side to side, like a windshield washer. And that finger is going to do all of the work while our right hand stays put. So for you, I'm going to just show you on this side, my right hand and my right arm stays put doesn't move so you can see it stay put, your arm is going to move side to side. Now you're gonna be able to see that my finger is wiggling in that vibrato motion that we want. And I'm not trying to move my finger it's not actually doing anything.

Except just dangling there. And all of the movement is coming from my elbow back and forth, right. And if I have that in the right, if I have the right pressure on my finger, then you'll see that movement. And you're going to want to try to practice moving each finger so that you can get each finger to wiggle in the same way in the same manner. So now that we have that, we're going to do the same thing except you're doing it on a violin instead of your fingers. And it's the same movement and same same feel as you did on your fingers, but you're just transferring it to the violin.

Once we have that and we feel comfortable about it. The next step is going to be a slightly different looping because what we did before we had our arm and we moved it side like side to side like a windshield wiper. And this is like first a couple of steps, right? Though the thing that's going to be different For us. So we talked about slight before, where our hand goes forward away from you the straight line, and then comes back to its original point. And I'm over exaggerating this motion so that you can see it on the camera.

Right was actually going to be about this much. It's very small. And it's hard to see from here. So I'm actually doing it for the side for you very, very, very small. Now, what we're going to try to do is get her finger, the same finger that you feel most comfortable with. For me, I'm going to use my second finger and what I'm doing by vibrato, everything that we've done so far, we've touched our index finger to the side of the violin so that it had a good solid base and didn't move so that would be more in tune.

Now, when we ever do by Bravo, we're going to take that finger and move it away slightly. So it's no longer touching but just clearing it so that we have a little bit more range of motion when we decided to do by vibrato. Okay, so this is our first five broader move that we do. We're going to make sure that our finger doesn't slide on the string so it's enough down pressure with her arm pulling it down so that it stays in spot in the spot in her fingers or curl or around enough something doesn't Latin our fingers when we pull down. Now the motion is going to be directly back and I'll over exaggerate it for you here so you can kind of see it all comes from the elbow. None of it comes from a wrist so the wrist isn't moving.

The fingers aren't moving. Everything's staying stationary. I'm having a straight wrist. It's not curl to the side, one or the other, and is just moving straight back, back. Just like your neck. knocking on wood with your knuckles.

Alright, now that we have that idea, we're just going to move back and then back to its original original spot. And when I say original spot, it means we don't push the hand forward. So that it that it comes sharp or Taurus, one cycle of vibrato looks like this. We're gonna go away, and I'm back to its original point. So if I do that, and I finish off a long note that I'm trying to play as long as I can get that motion that wow, and I'm doing it correctly, I have one cycle cycle. The cycle that I'm talking about is just one moving backwards and then back to its original point.

Once you get comfortable using one cycle my Bravo's you move along to to cycle vibrato. So Two times. One more time. It doesn't matter what notes you're playing, those are just ended. And I used two cycles of I brought on. Get comfortable with that.

You're gonna have to do it faster. And you're gonna do three cycles of vibrato so looks like this. I'm gonna do the same notes. Eventually, you'll do four cycles, five cycles and six cycles. Right. So that's how we build one cycle to two cycles and three cycles until eventually you're doing by Bravo.

And it sounds good. Some things that you're going to want to try as an exercise is doing when you when you finally get up to doing several cycles of eyebrow auto, starting slow, and then speeding your vibra vibrato up, and then adversely taking your vibrato and making it go fast. starting up fast and then going slow so that you can control your vibrato to make it have more feeling and have more control over what you want your batter to sound like. So an example of playing your vibrato slow too fast, was to look something like this example of playing your Viper on a fast and ending enough slow would look like This Okay. All right. Well, that's some, some tips and tricks on how to play by Bravo.

I really appreciate you taking time to go through this lesson. If you have any ever any questions about what we were work through, about what we learned, and if if there's just something that you're not getting, or I went through too fast, just let me know, and I'll be glad to help you out. So thanks again and we'll see out there