Any tips for flute vibrato?
i am hopeless at it. i just cant get it
i am hopeless at it. i just cant get it
Greendazed
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Vibrato on the flute should come from your deepest air support, your diaphragm. Make sure your tone is well supported and try to lower your jaw, opening your airstream to get the best possible tone. Try to create the vibrato sound you hear in your mind by making adjustments to your air stream. It shouldn't come from your mouth or lips- a good natural vibrato comes, well, naturally, in the sense that it should just be a part of your tone. Practice long sustained tones to get your best flute tone, then experiment. Also, listen to the greats- Emmauel Pahud, Jean Pierre Rampal, Galway, etc and get that sound in your head, so you can emulate it. Good luck
Anonymous
Vibrato Flute
hiller
Flute Vibrato
Anonymous
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Vibrato is hard to develop and, as someone mentioned, take anywhere from weeks to years. Don't get intimidated though and don't get let down =]
The basic principle is that you are blowing bursts of air into the flute at intervals. If you have a teacher and he/she has told you to pulse then it is similar to that. If not, then pulsing is basically just putting more emphasis on the first note of say a set of four sixteenths or eigths notes.
When you are actually forming your vibrato you want to blow "hoo" into the flute using a continuous stream of air. So like pulsing, you're just putting more emphasis at some points. Again, like someone metioned, it would be helpful to start at a slower speed and move your way up.
Here's music that I used when I was developing my vibrato:
http://saxshed.com/Vibrato.gif
I know it's from a sax site but it's the same idea.
One thing to be cautious about, you don't want to develop a nanny-goat vibrato. Basically do NOT use your throat to create the pulses.
Hope this helps and good luck with your vibrato!