learning vibrato?

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From lots of reading, it's pretty clear that it's possible to improve your singing voice - this is encouraging. But, can one learn vibrato?

I've found many books/CDs that claim that learning vibrato is possible, through correct breathing, relaxing, practice, practice, practice, etc. However, I haven't found any postings from people that have actually accomplished this.

Does anyone know if it's possible to achieve vibrato through practice, or is it physically impossible unless you were born with it?
 
For me, vibrato 'comes into my voice'.

While singing long notes, vibrato will just 'come into my voice'.

Once it starts coming into your voice, you can learn to 'let it happen' , once you feel it and know what it feels like.

Sing looooooooooonnnnnnnnggggg, GENTLE, EASY tones.

PAUSE between the singing of each tone, you MUST PAUSE. and take a few deep, gentle MEASURED breaths.

Look at your body 'internally' as this breath rushes in and out of you. Patience will deliver understanding and wisdom to your voice.

Long, gentle, medium volume tones, with a tuner preferably.

The closer and more deadly accurate you sing these tones, the more your body will want to add vibrato.

Listen to the birds sing long tones, listen to a wolf howl ... every living being has it's own 'vibrato'.

Like ... we all vibrate ... literally :D , your willl 'come into your voice'.

Yes ... relax with these long delicious slow breaths inbetween your long tones.

Find a teacher who concentrates on 'long tone' training ...

It will come to you.

Peace
 
I'm no pro singer, however I have had voice lessons a while back. I have since forgotten most of what I learned, but I concur with studioviols. For me, when I'm singing correctly, and I hit a note dead on and let it ride for a moment, the vibrato just occurs naturally. In fact, if I TRY to create vibrato, it sounds like crap.
When all I'm concentrating on is the accuracy of my tone, the vibrato happens automatically, and that is my cue that I'm singing in my natural voice.
 
Tremelo is an actual singing technique, and very difficult.

Technically, a tremelo must span a full chromatic step, and alternate between those two notes.

Vibrato is a variance in pitch a few cents above, below ... OR ... both above and below a given pitch, in rythm to the music ... or the heart, slow or fast, varying in intensiy, speed, and amplitude as the context and the emotion of a song may ask for.

Vibrato is used for expression, tremelo is used for production.
 
In answer to your original post, it's actually the other way around: most people are in fact not born with vibrato. Just like every other instrument, vibrato is learned through practice. I learned vibrato simply by incorporating it into my singing. In fact, singing a tone straight and then adding vibrato on the end of the note is recognized as "classical" vibrato and is perhaps the easiest way to learn. When singing a tone, strive for making it as even and straight as possible through breath control. Once you have complete control of the note, then waver the pitch upward slowly.

It just takes enough practice for your voice to get comfortable with wavering the pitch. The natural tendency will then be to increase the speed of the vibrato. Soon after you will go nuts and add vibrato to every note you sing, a very annoying practice in itself.

Cy
 
Cyrokk said:
Soon after you will go nuts and add vibrato to every note you sing, a very annoying practice in itself.
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So true LOL ! :)
 
studioviols said:
Tremelo is an actual singing technique, and very difficult.

Technically, a tremelo must span a full chromatic step, and alternate between those two notes.

Vibrato is a variance in pitch a few cents above, below ... OR ... both above and below a given pitch, in rythm to the music ... or the heart, slow or fast, varying in intensiy, speed, and amplitude as the context and the emotion of a song may ask for.

Vibrato is used for expression, tremelo is used for production.
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Get outa town. You got no clue
 
studioviols said:
Tremelo is an actual singing technique, and very difficult.

Technically, a tremelo must span a full chromatic step, and alternate between those two notes.

Vibrato is a variance in pitch a few cents above, below ... OR ... both above and below a given pitch, in rythm to the music ... or the heart, slow or fast, varying in intensiy, speed, and amplitude as the context and the emotion of a song may ask for.

Vibrato is used for expression, tremelo is used for production.
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Sorry - trememlo is an oscilation in AMPLITUDE, vibrato is an oscilation in FREQUENCY. Please excuse me for being such a pedantic ball-buster.

LN
 
esub9493 said:

Does anyone know if it's possible to achieve vibrato through practice, or is it physically impossible unless you were born with it?
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Yes Esub9493, Learning vibrato is DEFINATELY possible.

I learnt it myself, through this www.singingsuccess.com
The techniques in it teach you vibrato, I had it in less then a week.

Do not be discouraged from the vicious rumours that circulate saying you have to be born with it etc.
If you send me an e-mail I'll e-mail you back some mp3 vibrato excersises...
scott@scottmellish.com
Regards,
Scott Mellish
 
When I studied the use of 'tremelo' in college by referring to it in scores of 'standard notation' it appears two ways.

It is represented by the movement from one note to another spanning AT LEAST a half step; the movement must be AT LEAST chromatic. The movement to that note, and back to the 'foundation' of the note is done very rapidly ... as if 'trembling' ...

The other representatin of 'tremelo' in SCORES OF STANDARD NOTATION ... ahem ... is the rapid repitition of the SAME NOTE, for instance ... the violins 'tremelo' here ... In this instance there is NO change in frequency, amplitude or oscilliatory characteristic ...

You can see a half-note or a quarter-note with it's stems marked with 'bars' ... indicating tremelo.

Virbrator is a 'coloration technique' for a SINGLE PITCH, the pitch being vibrated NEVER CHANGES, it is an oscillation, above and below the pitch which DEMANDS a change in the FREQUENCY of the pitch.

A few cents ABOVE, or BELOW, or both ABOVE AND BELOW the pitch.

Thank yeEeEeEeEew ... :D
 
practise while riding the old toro..... they vibrate so much that you will have a natural vibation for hours after
 
i think just to losen up your throat and body alot before letting the note out is how you do it. when its lose you have more slack to mess around with. Thats how i do it.

ps that brett manning guy looks like a tool.
 
i think that everyone has a natural/intuitive vibrato (not that it's there at birth, just the preferred singing style/anatomical differences can define it)-while i can do vibrato in a few ways, i often find myself synching with freddie mercury while singing along to "we are the champions".
 
applesmasher said:
ps that brett manning guy looks like a tool.
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Applesmasher, I am currently 3/4s of the way through the singing success course by Brett Manning, I have seen remarkable results. I have developed a good vibrato that I didn't have before, I have also increased my range by an octave. Tool or no tool, his singing program works!
Scott
 
lol k. He just reminds me of those two gay guys with the white tiger. glad its workin for you though;)
 
applesmasher said:
lol k. He just reminds me of those two gay guys with the white tiger. glad its workin for you though;)
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Oh sigfried and roy!!!! yeah now that you say that, I can see it!
lol
 
hehe now i kinda feel bad cause that roy guy just got mauled by a tiger. lol. actually no i dont who in their right mind plays with tigers!
 
Oh I know,
I heard it about 5 minutes after putting that last post up!
Wow,
but none the less, i do see the resemblance.
 
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