Author: Thatoboekid
Date: 2004-01-20 20:08
I would say I'm a failr advanced high school oboist, and I have discovered that I've been vibrating very inefficiently. Theres the whole stomach vs. throat thing, and my teacher says he feels it towards his upper chest/throat, and that his stomach is expanded while he plays. He also said that he compares vibrato to panting like a dog.
I have been using my stomach, to the point where I could actually see my stomach moving and it would sometimes cause my oboe to move along with my body, which I'm sure isn't right, no professionals look like they're shaking when they play. Plus, it's so much work to get the stomach going, there's no agility in it, I can't color quick accents with a quick flurry of vibratolike a violin, and it's very difficult and tiring to play long phrases where the notes move, to connect the vibrato.
My teacher at EMF said that at my age his vibrato slowly moved up into his throat, and got faster and more varied, but I don't see this happening. SHould I just continue on to use this stomach vibrato, and do excersises with it? Or try and learn to use the throat technique? Has anyone been in this position before? Thanks for any help!
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