vibrato tips?

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So i started singing about 6 months ago and i'm determined to get good! does anyone have any hints or tips on how to get good at vibrato?
Any advice is much appreciated! thanks

 

[MohtasaUnique]

I'm sorry if this doesn't help, but you'd be wasting your time to try and learn vibrato. My choir teacher used to tell us "if you don't have a natural vibrato, don't fake it. It can't be learned, just like you can't learn to roll your R's like a Spanish speaker."

His saying this wouldn't be enough to convince me, but the kid he was saying it to didn't take it hint, and kept trying to incorperate vibrato. He was trying to match the singer in the performance we were recreating who used a lot of vibrato, and it was horrid. He was taken off the part because he couldn't let the vibrato lie. Three months of rehearsals and practice and more practice didn't help him one lick.


I'm really good at vibrato, but I really can't explain how I do it.

 

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I'm sorry if this doesn't help, but you'd be wasting your time to try and learn vibrato. My choir teacher used to tell us "if you don't have a natural vibrato, don't fake it. It can't be learned, just like you can't learn to roll your R's like a Spanish speaker."

His saying this wouldn't be enough to convince me, but the kid he was saying it to didn't take it hint, and kept trying to incorperate vibrato. He was trying to match the singer in the performance we were recreating who used a lot of vibrato, and it was horrid. He was taken off the part because he couldn't let the vibrato lie. Three months of rehearsals and practice and more practice didn't help him one lick.


I'm really good at vibrato, but I really can't explain how I do it.

thanks for this it was helpful, can i ask how long it was before you started singing to being able to sing a vibrato style song nicely?

 

[MohtasaUnique]

My vibrato has always been satisfactory, but my pitch and my vocal range needed a lot of work. When I can find the pitch, vibrato is just a matter of pulling it between neutral and sharp (or sharp and one half-step up, or flat to neutral) with my adams apple.... at least it feels like my adams apple, I don't know if it's that or the muscles in my neck around that area... there's probably a science to it which I'm not familiar with

 

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My vibrato has always been satisfactory, but my pitch and my vocal range needed a lot of work. When I can find the pitch, vibrato is just a matter of pulling it between neutral and sharp (or sharp and one half-step up, or flat to neutral) with my adams apple.... at least it feels like my adams apple, I don't know if it's that or the muscles in my neck around that area... there's probably a science to it which I'm not familiar with

right i think i understand, i can do vibrato you see and it sounds alright, it just seems to start and stop a little too often? Yeah, there probably is some particular way to do it, but i find with singing it's about feeling how to do things for yourself rather than there being a set way