How to Use the Vibrato Technique to Play the Fiddle

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Hi! I'm David Kaynor on behalf of expertvillage.com. I have a website www.davidkaynor.com and you can visit it to find out more about me. I'm going to talk very briefly about vibrato, left hand vibrato in fiddle music. Violinists learn general vibrato in several different techniques. We fiddlers, we soft talking fiddlers learn all of this by watching and leaping to sometimes inaccurate conclusions, but basically vibrato—it sounds like the word vibrate and it involves the change of the pitch of the note. Fiddlers use vibrato in waltzes and slow airs; they don’t use them in fast tunes, they just use them in reel time. But if I were playing a waltz, the difference between a note without vibrato is it is just a simple a single tone. With vibrato the pitch goes up and down a little bit, and I change the amount it goes up and down on how far I roll my finger tips to sharp to flat. And also I can change the speed in which I rotate my fingers tips. Or, in the context of a waltz, it sounds like this.

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