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In this MicroLesson (ML050) you’ll learn the vibrato technique (singing with your fingers). You’ll be able to practice it by playing the repeatable blues lick that comes with this lesson, includes tab and MP3 jam track to practice with.
ML050 - Free Guitar Lesson
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Great tips on vibrato…
Arlo looks great! Livin the good life.
Spot on. This is exactly the lesson I have been looking for… Thanks Brian
love that red SG!! always wondered why sometimes you used the thumb as a lever and others I saw you use the free arm technique. thanks
Thanks Brian I like the with or without guitar good way to learn
Is that a B&G Little Sister on the couch behind you next to your dog? Great lesson as always, Brian, love your stuff!
Wow, you win an award for having the best eye. How did you spot that! Yes it is.
Great lick. I don’t get the F# in bar 9 and there are only eleven bars.
What am I messing?.
Hi Bstrum,
Yes: it’s a great 12 bar blues backing track (yes, it is 12 bars: on the tab it shows 11, but that last bar actually spreads over 2 bars when you listen to the backing track). Also, as you say, very interesting bar 9 and 10: F Sharp and B, instead of B and A: It sounds really interesting and different!
What I love about Brian’s lessons is that he demonstrates that we can break away from rigid rules and formulae and do something a bit different… those different chords in bar 9 and 10 really work! I wonder what other chords sound like there?
Cheers,
Rich F
Hi Brian
These technics you instruct in this film are something may expert guitarists do it after long time of playing and most of them think it’s not important to point them out at the timr of teaching, but as matter of fact they are very important technics which you mentioned and show them because you are concerning and deeply think what guitarists really need to know. All artists must respect instructor like you
Hey man you’re perfect
Imi
Great micro lesson, Brian! Question…are you using a foot stool to raise your right leg? Thanks for all the lessons. 🙂
lol that dog is so cool! lol
Just what I needed. A couple of months ago a crazy, old guitar player who lives upriver from here came in and tried to teach me vibrato just like this. “break the wrist” he kept saying, meaning to separate it from the neck, as you demonstrate. He also pointed out to not push and pull the string but to push it up and ride it as it comes back down with a loose feel. Actually, he said something about pleasuring a partner “real gentle like” being the secret to vibrato and that all us new guitar players go spastic and get it over with too fast.
Great lesson. Thanks.
It’s the subtle things that make the difference. Great tips. I for one, can’t use a trem, at least not without a lot more practice. With a trem, I have a tendency to go above and below the note, whereas vibrato can only go above and back to pitch.
I’m going to ask, what type of pick design gauge do you feel or think?