This video records my main findings after studying the wrist vibrato on the violin for the past few months. This technique involves a number of different factors that I believe should be addressed and developed separately so as to make it easier to develop the proper wrist vibrato.
Hand angle relative to the neck
Finger pressure
Thumb support
Wrist vibration
Its worth noting that it is not enough to do the right things to play the vibrato, because we depend on strenght and flexibility on different parts of the fingers, and these can only be developed in time.
So, if you are doing everything right and still you can’t do the vibrato properly, that is the most likely reason and I believe that my approach here can help you pinpoint the factors that are hindering your performance.
Below is an illustration of the suggested increase in amplitude for the wrist vibrato. This helps avoid a kind of “resonance” that amplifies the violin shaking.
Practising what I preach:
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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.
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