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Originally Posted by allthumbs
I heard a neat trick for adding expresion to your vibrato. It is realy for finger vibe but, should work for slide.This guys sax teacher told him most people tend to do vibrato on the beat so it is very uniform. He told the guy to do the vibrato six times so it breaks out of the beat. He found applied to his guitar, it realy worked well but was realy hard to break from the more normal vibrato duration.It is worth a try.Let me know what you think.
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Thats interesting allthumbs, it does work well.
IMO, vibrato is your main meal with slide.
Its important to have a few different techniques.
ie; wide n slow-wide n fast- short n fast- short n slow-smooth- aggressive, etc etc. (Just don't go too sharp of the note, that'll sound dissonant). They all add emotion to the "vocal" quality of slide.
Blind Willie Johnson has an etheral sounding vibrato that I've been trying to emulate for years.
One trick to getting your vibrato smooth is by checking yourself out in the mirror. Some guys look like they're having an epileptic fit, but don't realise it. Eyes can help as well as ears.
(Just don't let any one catch you doing this, they won't believe your practising, they'll think your vain!).