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Old April 22nd, 2008
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Vibrato

I've been trying to do vibratos, and watching how other guitarists do it. In Kirk's vibrato link he says its a wrist thing and I find that's getting better with practice, but often you see people use their fingers pushing and pulling across the fretboard. Is this the best/only way to do vibrato if its a chord involved?

Mostly I've seen it done when the fingers are above fret 8 or so, is this the reason why they do it in that way? I like the idea I read somewhere that the hand/wrist action is like opening a jar and that helps, but how can you do that if you are fretting more than one note - you can't really pivot then - well at least I can't. Any helpful tips would be appreciated. Thanks.


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