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Re: Achieving good vibrato

Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-03-29 01:17

Start by playing with a slow vibrato - that's 'pulsing' the air slightly (by increasing and decreasing the air pressure with the abdominal muscles) as you're breathing out so it looks like this:

<><><><><><><><><><> and try it at different speeds.

But the best excercise is playing a completely flat long tone that looks like this:

________________________ ie. with no fluctuations in pitch, volume or tone.

But don't mistake vibrato for tone - vibrato is additional to oboe playing and not part of the tone.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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