From the monthly archives:

November 2008

The Vibrato on the Violin Part 6

by Steve Maus

Hopefully you folks practiced a lot during the past week. Meanwhile your family has recovered from the shock of your first vibrato steps and we can carry on.
Your vibrato has become much better thanks to the exercises of part 5. Now we must learn to apply our vibrato pointedly. We must be able to vibrate [...]

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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 5

by Steve Maus

After all those technical aspects of vibrato on the violin we come to the question “how on earth should I practice such a complicated movement?”
This is not as difficult as it sounds at the beginning.
We already saw that a vibrato is nothing else than a consistent oscillation of the tone’s pitch, comparable to a sine [...]

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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 4

by Steve Maus

In Part 3 of our series about the vibrato we mainly talked about the arm vibrato. Today we’ll have a deeper look into the hand vibrato.
I’m asked frequently which version is better. This cannot be answered generally. It depends on our personal preferences and, above all, which version we have learned first. We tend to [...]

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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 3

by Steve Maus

As we have seen here we have to be sure that our finger remains in position during the vibrato movements. The finger must not leave its position as it is the case during shifts.
But nevertheless we have to oscillate our tone.
The solution is pretty easy: We let the finger roll on its tip, like a [...]

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