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Author: Lnda
Date: 2002-09-04 15:37
What is a vibrato. I am teaching myself the flute. What are trills for? Help I am a beginner
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-09-04 22:46
Vibrato is what singers and instrumentalists are doing when you hear them waver notes up and down in pitch. It is used to add a "singing" quality to the sound, and to add more color, character, intensity, and beauty to a phrase. Some instruments use it more than others by convention. As a flute player, you will eventually learn to use it a great deal.
Trills are a type of ornamentation in music. They are played by rapidly alternating two notes together, usually the written note and the note and whole step above it, unless a flat sign is indicated, in which case the note and the note a half step above it are alternated. Trills are used for a variety of reasons in music. They add intensity and elegance to a phrase.
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Author: Steven King
Date: 2002-09-05 00:39
Vibrato is not a pitch change! It is a dinamic change and it is produced in the throught. As you progress you will learn vibrato. Yes the flute used vibrato alot but you don't want to use it so much that it gets to boreing. When learning vibrato start of slow like 1 beat at 6 beats per minute. Keep the 60 beats per minut at then do eitgh notes 1+2+3+4 or ap-ple, then triplets a phrase to help is blue-ber-ry. Then do 4ths a phrase for that is al-li-ga-tor. Then do 5ths a phrase for that is hip-po-pot-a-mus or op-por-tu-ni-ty
I hope this has elaberated more on your subject.
If you need more help email me at kingst@frontiernet.net
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-09-05 03:51
It's a dynamic change yeah, but a pitch change also. On oboe at least, by constricting the air in the throat, you are slightly altering the air pressure against the reed and thus changing the pitch. Just listen and you can here the pitch fluctuating--of course only slighty; it shouldn't be ridiculous.
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2002-09-05 08:13
Torus is right. Vibrato is a change in pitch, where the note wobbles slightly above and slightly below the correct pitch.
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Author: Steven King
Date: 2002-09-06 03:04
The Proffessor of Flute a Central Michigan Univercity says that it is a dinamic change only if you are good enough at it. Becasue if it was a pitch change to it would sound out of tune even if it was a slight one.
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-09-08 00:02
I'm not a flute player, but it doesn't sound out of tune when any other instrument does it... I mean if the Professor of Flute at Central Michigan is going to say that, how does he explain how string sections using vibrato do not sound out of tune. Or opera singers with their sometimes very wide vibrato do not sound of out tune. Clearly neither of those is a purely dynamic change. It honestly doesn't make a lot of sense if you think about it. Maybe it's just a flute thing or something.
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Author: Steven King
Date: 2002-09-08 00:55
It could be just a Flute thing. Maybe some instuments arnt capable of playing vibrato without a pitch change. Flute is just one of thouse instruments that has an exception to every rule it seems like. Flute can do may things brass can like play several notes on a single finguring other that just octaves. We can do intervals to. Clarinets and Oboes and other woodwinds have a very hard time with it because of the reed thing. But flute uses focused air to play the music and can do many kewl things. We are both right and wrong. Some instuments must use a pitch change when playing vitrato i guess. I hate string instruments anyways. All the ones I have heard are screachy. But they probably soud good when they are played bu a pro.
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Author: Saxy Boy
Date: 2002-09-08 03:25
sorry to disappoint ya...but vibrato is definitely a pitch change. How else do string players do it? they move their finger slightly up and down the string to vibrate the pitch. For wind players, we fluctuate the pitch by almost laughing into our instruments to change how fast the air is going. this in turn will produce a dynamic change due to the changing of the velocity of the air...making it seem louder then softer and vice versa.
Saxy boy
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Author: Laura
Date: 2002-09-08 15:51
Vibrato is a pitch change no matter what instrument. It is also a dynamic change. It moves slightly up and down in pitch and volume. Look up the term in a musical dictionary if you think otherwise. Everything I have read so far has said that it is a pitch change, and I've looked at many sources.
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Author: ellie
Date: 2002-10-02 01:21
I think vibrato is one of the differences between playing notes and playing music. One of those little picky things that when done right makes all the difference.
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-10-16 19:16
Actually on oboe you can play several different notes with the same fingering as well. It's called harmonics, and every woodwind can do it, not just flute.
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Author: kasplurpo
Date: 2003-08-18 03:51
The following site will answer almost all of your questions, and explains thoroughly how to play vibrato towards the middle. It's definitely worth checking out though you may want to skip over some parts
http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/Vibrato.html
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