[solidwalnut]

Hi Carol--

I think there's more than one way to approach vibrato. Maybe you could give a couple of examples of where you want it in your playing?

I guess the only other tips I can give is that there is two basic types of vibrato, and then variations there of. The first one is where you actually move the hand and not the wrist. Move the hand back and forth, left and right while you keep a stiff wrist.

The physics are that while your finger is on the string in the fret, by moving the hand you are really slightly moving the finger/string contact point while raising and lowering the pitch of the note.

The other basic type is the wrist shaking kind, where you're actually raising the pitch of the string(s) by bending them past the normal pitch of the fret and then back again.

As far as if there's a chord involved, I can do it via method 1, but it's pretty tough. I usually do method 1 with two or three strings max.