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 the notes instantly and without any delay. In our exercise of the previous part we had a very long settling time which we have to get rid of.
We can take an exercise like this:
We use our metronome again and adjust it to about 60. The rest between the notes is most important! Your hand has time to relax because the fingers must not tense up.
The frequency or the amplitude are not important yet. The most important part for us is the instant application of vibrato. Start to vibrate at the very beginning of each note and use the rests to relax again.
Again – it’s not important how intense you produce your vibrato as long as you vibrate at all and instantly. If you tense up it will be almost impossible to vibrate and your intonation suffers.
When you did this exercise for a while you can start to train your endurance with something like this:
We didn’t change really much. We keep our tempo at about 60 and just double the notes and the rests as well. But please remember to start your vibrato at the beginning of each note. Because of the longer rest your hand should have enough time to recover again.
You should perform those exercises on all strings and in different positions but don’t exceed the fourth. From the fifth position on we change our hand grip, but we’ll look at that in one of the following posts.
