Author: pliscapoivre
Date: 2012-01-19 08:16
Thanks, everyone!
I have indeed been very focused on vibrato production these days.
Since I finished graduate school 10 years ago, I've never had a lesson -- and I've gotten into some strange habits too gradually to notice until I came to Germany, got a new instrument that wouldn't allow me to continue in the old way, and got some aspects of this German sound in my head. I've also been listening to a huge amount of opera here, which has made my imagination blossom and has had an effect on my sound.
I've never worked on vibrato much before, and have always been pleased with the variety of expression and speed I've been able to produce -- but, at least for the time being, the more European constant vibrato helps me to keep the throat out of it, relaxed and just a free tube through which the air goes. This has also had a great effect on my endurance. But I am using a lot of pressure from the diaphragm and always taking care that the vibrato is coming only from there, which is now interfering with the subdivisions.
Maybe I just need more time to get used to this improved method of sound production, and when it becomes natural, I can get back to subdividing. Sounds funny, but could be...
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