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What kind of vibrato technique(s) do you use
Perpendicular to string (sideways) 19%  19%  [ 10 ]
Perpendicular to string (up/down) 25%  25%  [ 13 ]
Along string (violin style) 11%  11%  [ 6 ]
Whammy bar 25%  25%  [ 13 ]
Whole neck 9%  9%  [ 5 ]
Tune-o-matic palm/thumb vibrato 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Pedal or amp 8%  8%  [ 4 ]
Other (please explain!) 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
None 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 53
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Post subject: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 6:51 pm
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There are several ways to do vibrato on fretted guitars, and I find I use a couple of different techniques.
So here's an informal poll of which techniques you guys actually use.

(Please, bass players, don't answer what you do on a fretless bass - it will skew the poll. Open a new poll, if need be.)


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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:24 pm
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I voted for whammy bar and pedal/amp Art. :D

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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:19 am
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I think Jimi Hendrix did most of these. Possibly at the same time :D
The "full neck vibrato" is a Hendrix thing, for sure, copied by a few others like SRV.

The "violin style" vibrato, which pulls/pushes on the string tension is somewhat uncommon. Mike Oldfield does that almost exclusively, and Ritchie Blackmore does it when he doesn't play a scalloped guitar. But I can't think of anyone else of the big ones, except classical guitar players.

"Up/down" vibrato obviously works best with tall frets or scalloped fretboards, like Yngwie Malmsteen. But it's also easier to do near the nut than sideways (bendy) vibrato, and as you only use a single finger and not the wrist, it's also useful when you need vibrato on one string but not another.

The "tune-o-matic special", for lack of a better phrase, I have really only seen Duane Allman do, vibrating the strings between the bridge and the stop piece while playing a sustained note. I imagine that was more common in earlier days, with lyre tail bridges, and that's how he picked that up.
I've seen a Tele player (John 5?) do the same at the other end, wiggling strings on the headstock.

It will be interesting to see what people here do!


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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 1:14 am
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Mostly Up/Down for me but I will also use a whammy bar for dive bombs and lowering notes if there is one fitted on the guitar I'm playing. Yes I find a whammy useful and sideways style as well, my fingers are never really still on a string.

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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:32 am
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Does anyone else find the results of a poll on this forum are hard to read? I get a vertical bar graph result, which takes up a lot of space and requires scrolling to see all the results. A horizontal bar graph result would be much easier to view. Maybe there's a setting I've missed?

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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:02 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
Does anyone else find the results of a poll on this forum are hard to read? I get a vertical bar graph result, which takes up a lot of space and requires scrolling to see all the results. A horizontal bar graph result would be much easier to view. Maybe there's a setting I've missed?


Ah!! I've had that. Turned out to be a browser problem but with me all the posts were in vertical lines...very annoying. I switched from Internet Explorer to Google Chrome and it was fine.
Try a different browser if it continues to happen.

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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:48 pm
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Rhumba wrote:
Drew365 wrote:
Does anyone else find the results of a poll on this forum are hard to read? I get a vertical bar graph result, which takes up a lot of space and requires scrolling to see all the results. A horizontal bar graph result would be much easier to view. Maybe there's a setting I've missed?


Ah!! I've had that. Turned out to be a browser problem but with me all the posts were in vertical lines...very annoying. I switched from Internet Explorer to Google Chrome and it was fine.
Try a different browser if it continues to happen.


I am using Google Chrome. It only happens with polls on this site. Other sites they display horizontally. No biggie, but thanks anyway.

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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:05 am
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Drew365 wrote:
I am using Google Chrome. It only happens with polls on this site. Other sites they display horizontally. No biggie, but thanks anyway.

The problem also happens with Firefox.

Technical webmaster stuff follows:

I have narrowed it down to a stylesheet problem on this web site.
In stylesheet.css, they have:

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Those two heights are conflicting, and which one you get depends on which one is loaded and parsed first. Which differs for different browsers. When "height: auto" is loaded, it tells the browser to preserve the aspect ratio of the image when scaling, in this case poll_center.gif, which is 12 pixels tall and 1 pixel wide. The result is that the bar is made 12 times as tall as it is wide. Then the "height: 90%" is loaded, and it becomes 90% of that.
(If loaded the other way, the 90% will be of the last context, which is the height of the text line, and things look fine.)

This appears to be due to a "fix" that Fender put in to get the user images on the left more the same size, but it has unintended consequences for the poll.

Brad, if you read this, I recommend that you delete both those height stanzas, and let the browser choose the height. Or at least change the "poll" one to something more sensible, like "height: 12px;" (matching what's in the HTML, and which will override hard, instead of context-sensitive). I'd send a PM, but Brad has turned that off...


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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 6:33 am
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When I used to have my Tele with Bigsby, I messed around a little bit with the Whammy...but found I wasn't very good at it. I block all my Strats and put the Whammy bar in a ziplock bag in a box.

So far, I am the only one to vote "None". I can honestly say I have probably TRIED every technic atleast once---and sucked at all of them. It's just not meant to be for my playing style.

They say "Practice makes perfect"...but I guess I'll never be perfect because I shant be practicing.


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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:54 am
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Tried the whammy bar a couple times over the years, but could never get it to sound as good as my finger vibrato, so just gave up on it.

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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:03 pm
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I'm kind of surprised how many here have chosen up/down, given that it gives so little vibrato unless you have tall frets or a scalloped fretboard. But I do it too, to get just a shimmer. And on the first fret, or with your pinky, well, sideways/bend vibrato is really hard to do, so there is that...

But keeps the votes coming, folks. It's interesting to see how we're not all the same.

I have a background from playing violin and the fiddle. With violin, it used to be the case that unless otherwise noted, vibrato was the default. With guitar, I think it's more like 25%. After all, we have reverb, overdrive and other effects in the arsenal too.


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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 3:57 am
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I'm kind of surprised how many here have chosen up/down, given that it gives so little vibrato unless you have tall frets or a scalloped fretboard. But I do it too, to get just a shimmer. And on the first fret, or with your pinky, well, sideways/bend vibrato is really hard to do, so there is that....

I'll be damned if I know how Clapton gets his signature vibrato that way without the headstock moving. He's using vintage frets on a 9.5R neck. Only way I can do that is by bracing the guitar body against mine with my forearm. He doesn't appear to be doing that. :?

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I'll be damned if I know how Clapton gets his signature vibrato that way without the headstock moving. He's using vintage frets on a 9.5R neck. Only way I can do that is by bracing the guitar body against mine with my forearm. He doesn't appear to be doing that. :?

Stage magic, like a little man dressed in black velvet running up and bracing his neck? :)
Yes, some of the guitar gods do things that I can watch in detail, but still not figure out how they not only manage to defy laws of physics, but make it look easy. Two of my favorite players, Ritchie Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth, have that uncanny ability to make difficult things look easy. They don't seem to concentrate even a little, but do it on auto-pilot. I look and think "I can do that", but when I try, it's WTFF. So I practice, and I practice, and I practice, and I fail, and I fail, and I fail. :oops:


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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:36 am
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arth1 wrote:
Stage magic, like a little man dressed in black velvet running up and bracing his neck? :)

Mmmmmmm..........could be! :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Vibrato techniques
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My vibrato technique is similar to the way this woman applies mascara. What would you call that? :lol:

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