Guitar Techniques - Vibrato [Hand Movement] - Guitar Lesson [TE-103] 

the struggle is real

now i can play with _feel_

My vibrato sounds like a damn mosquito 😭😭

4:55 hendrix vibrato

thanks a lot! practiced half an hour and made huge progress. Finally im ready to play some of my favourite queen songs🙏🏻

I've been trying to get this right for a while. I tried your method (thumb pivot) and nailed it - Thanks!

Thank you Justin for the great lesson. I'm a beginner and I have been struggling with this technique. My vibrato was 100% better by the end of the video.

Always interesting and well explained... Thanks for all of this hard work Justin !

Dude. Ive been playing for less than 2 months and i think i have got a hang of it. Thanks for the great vid!

Very helpful, great lesson to clarify an ambiguous technique.

suuupergreat lesson, thanks so much justin!!

yes thank you so much for this video! I got my first electric guitar, and this a technique I see in a lot of songs I wanted to learn but when I tried to do it it was very uncomfortable and awkward. The video seriously helped! Thanks again!!

Thanks Justin, you always make terrific lessons!

Finally I got it! Thank you Justin You're the best :D

🚩So glad I remembered You! Your Bending and Vibrato explanation was spot on. You really helped a lot. Took it slow but not sleepy slow. I'm a Acoustic player, but own both, want to learn, All Guitar. Thanks so much!

Justin, It’s funny you have us start with pulling down, which is a heck of a lot easier and more natural for me, than to bend upwards at first. I realize there are many ways to do vibrato but unless it’s in the first string, I believe I’ll use this technique.

merci beaucoup pour ce tuto ! il m'a permis de comprendre le mouvement pour travailler !

Amazing tutorial, very clear explanation, thanks Justin!

five minutes in. I've learned nothing but wiggling one note that sounds like something from the 1960's batman series

Screws up my fingers, but I learned it. Great tutorial, as usual. Keep it up.

Thanks once again Justin. Another great lesson. Appreciated!

The anchoring around the neck really helped me get better sounds. I was using the floating technique

thank you this amazing lesson. before this i was just spazzing my fingers until it sounded close enough.

Brilliant lesson...loved it.Thanks

Hi Justin, while watching this video Danny Kirwan springs to mind especially Jigsaw puzzle blues.

10/10 very useful. Thanks Justin!

Awesome, what a great teacher, thank you for this video. I totally relate to the spiritual aspect of guitar technique like vibrato-playing music is for sure a spiritual endeavor, especially when it comes to deep self expression through the instrument. If you watch some of the most amazing musicians (including guitar players) their performance is a very spiritual experience for sure, helps you tap into a deeper place.

Oh perfect! Yes, I would love to emulate Angus's vibrato. Good idea to listen to his and analyze it!

Tanks Jstin. This video helped me a lot.

Thanks man.My vibrato technique has improved a lot after practicing this.I feel very comfortable doing this "hand movement Vibrato" ..other techniques weren't suitable for me.

Very helpful. Btw those are some serious gouges on the fretboard!

That vibrato looks and sounds great. So controlled!

Thank you Justin. Always a legend 👍

Good explanation. Thanks..

gran lección amigo justin

Best channel on RU-vid

Thank you sir your teach is simply but awesome 👏

you're best teacher

thanks, great explanation.

very useful i learned really fast w this video

Kick-ass shirt dude!

i found my jazz soud improved when i learned to do violin style vibrato. its more beautiful and soft. keeep the bending vibrato for rock and roll or metal. good vids

Thanks norm

Great lesson

I'll never heard vibrato done correctly until Clapton in 1966, the most beautiful vibrato I had ever heard

thank you for the video! my guitar strings are stiff by I will try my best XD

Justin, do you have any tips to work on the hand movement? I feel like I'm simply moving my fingers and not my hand. I'm really struggling with this, thanks

Thank you .

Thanks!

subscribed!, thanks for the pivot tip, now i learn how to bend better

Thanks a lot bro.. 😍😍

thanks, I'm here for picking banjo, and after hearing the Eagles' vibrato on Journey of the Sorcerer (their original that got adopted for Hitchhiker's Guide_

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thanks

If I can ever get to Mike Campbell’s vibrato level on Henley’s “Boys of Summer”, I will declare mission accomplished!

man the last bit of the video is like a meditation lol

Dude, that was incredible helpful! I taught playing the guitar for myself since around 20 years and never figured out a good vibrato on an e-guitar. I come from the violin and always end up with the classical vibrato. Also I tried to do it from the fingers and it sounded and felt wrong! Now it sounds more awesome! Thank you!

great video! question: how to accelerate the rotating motion of wrist to sound faster vibrato? (I felt quite locked)

What you were doing at 6:40 reminded me of Vangelis.

I've been playing guitar since I was a kid but subconsciously learnt to do vibrato using my knuckles. I've been wanting to learn this technique for ages but I just started and feel like an absolute beginner... crazy

This lesson really helped me a lot! I just have to work on my hand vibrato (no comments, please) and in getting my speed up. I've been doing the classical "rolling" vibrato for far too long and it is cramping my playing expression. Thanks!

This helped me a lot with my guitar, I'm currently learning the song Time by Pink Floyd and the vibrato's seem to go down a pitch is there any way to do that?

Do I need to loosen the strings because everytime I try to do it the strings feel tight and compact next to each other

Man, for a second I thought it's Norm Macdonald changing trade, not only the look but also the voice and the way you're speaking.

this dude looks like norm macdonald

🚩BEST Explanation Yet.. Thanks,u helped A Lot. Was told all kinds of ways,none worked. But,just like Bends sounds..kinda Bad??? My guess,Once learned..GO FASTER?! Sounds "WONKY" Slow..lol

The biggest thing is patience and understanding it’s going to take your body sometime to internalize it. Until that point it will be a struggle and feel unnatural.

What helped me a lot is to focus on generating the movement by moving your wrist, the fingers stays anchored on the strings and the only way they can move is by moving them using your wrists, I mean if you wrists are going to rotate, the fingers have to move right ?

any tips for acoustic guitar

The 2 Artist u mentioned..Right on piint

If you go up the above string starts ringing too and its annoying hw can i avoid that

Precisley what I need to know. Watching guitarists. It really does look like they are just pushing and pulling with thier fingers. Just doing the one fi get vibrato aka B. B. king is how I started. In the beginning it was very awkward and was using only course motor skills. Then one day it clicked and became a fine motor skill. Not fine enough. As I can only do it at one speed. But that will change. I like the way demonstrated here and I'll work on getting that control in the hand.

Paul Kossoff's vibrato was fantastic.

I've been playing everyday for years, I can do finger vibrato during bends, and arm vibrato, but I never seem to be able to do it with my index finger

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Turns out I've been doing it wrong for the last 5 years! that is quite a hand movement to get used to

THANK YOU!! I was trying to do moving only the fingers

David Gilmour's vibrato on the "Wish You Were Here" intro solo. That's why I am here... I can't do it (yet!).

What is a reasonable amount of time for this to take to learn?

My upwards vibrato is much slower than the downwards version. I guess that's normal, is it? Maybe because the anchor point at the index root doesn't exist on the upwards version and the forces have to detour via the thumb that's building the fundament.

Is it harder to do vibrato on acoustic guitars? Because Im literally having a hard time here with my acoustic guitar and ruining my fingertips in the process but the way you bend strings make it look like it's easy af. Is it xperience?

Thanks for this. I have played on and off for many years and tremelo is something I have always struggled with. I used to play with my best friend who was amazing. He could melt the freaking keyboard with his fingers while he was having a casual conversation with me. I hated him... Anyway, I'm over that... sort of. But, he used to do these amazing bends with a vibrato at the upper end of the bend. Something I have never been able to do. I'm older and retired now and I have the time to get back into playing. Unfortunately my body doesn't respond the way it used to. I don't have the finger strength and I was lucky enough to inherit some of my dad's arthritis. So I am still struggling. But I don't want to give up. My best friend was fortunate enough to be able to make a career out of his ability on the guitar and has played with some fairly big name musicians like Eddie Money and Blue Oyster Cult. He is only a year younger than me and he still plays just like he always has. Anyway, I digress. All of this to say that I hope I can use videos like these to try and get back into it. Back in the day I used to be somewhat good. But life got in the way and I quit playing for many years. I still have the 25/50 Anniversary Les Paul and the Flying V2 that I bought brand new back in 1980. At least I never got rid of those. We'll see what happens. What kind of exercises could I do to build up that kind of strength in my hands? Cuz I really struggle with being able to keep the string pushed against the fret while trying to bend it up and down smoothly. At least your video has showed me that my had position wasn't correct.

I don't necessarily agree with what he says about the "incorrect" way to do vibrato, with your fingertips coming down directly on the strings. I've done it that way for years, and my vibrato sounds great. Just feels like I have better control and leverage that way. It's just a different way to do it, and you could just as easily make a mistake doing it the "right" way. However, I have been wanting to start doing it this way, if for no other reason than it's not as hard on your fingers. =)

2:25 is this tattoo of magic mushroom or sperm cell on his hand

will my fingerboard get chunked like that?

Man it's so hard

This is hard

Im doing this in an Acoustic guitar with super high action lol

More vibrato, please!?

Nice 335

how could you move it with that motion? i literally need to grab onto the string just so i could barely move it

All these tutorials I've watched doesn’t really teach WHEN to start shaking your hand after you pick the note. Do you start right away (down beat) a soon as you pick the note? Do you start on upbeat? Or do you wait for the next beat to start shaking it?

how can we read it on TAB and can I do it for classic guitar ?

I love how I’ve been using only my finger and therefore doing it wrong for 3 years

I'm the only who's tempted to laugh during 3:36 - 4:50?

Me gustan tus videos Los entiendo un poco Pero no del todo ya que no hablo ingles😢

all the time at tutorial i was worried about a string to break

Okay so..... how do i do it on my classical guitar?

why not push uppwards to neutral position instead? u did that only for the e1 string

I was just looking through the comments and how are any of y’all able to do this?! I’ve been trying for the past 30 minutes and I haven’t got anything!!