Vibrato Masterclass - How To Sound Like A Pro 

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Mornin Jamie, as always you give some valuable lessons!! So glad I stumbled on your tutorials on youtube. The TTM (Total Tone Mastery) that I enrolled myself is a tool instrumental to transformation and development of a good saxophonist!! I am still dreaming to be one.

Help me. I played saxophone for 20 years in the University Republic of Korea. You may not believe it. While practicing something else with embouchure, The vibrato that worked well suddenly stopped working. It became like this all of a sudden. It's easy when it's low or quiet, If you try to play vibrato with high pitch and loud voice, and the pitch drops like crazy. i haven't been able to find the cause for two months.

Great lesson Jamie, thanks.

Thanks Jamie! Clear, simple and achievable, as always... and I noticed Kenny Dorham album on your wall, behind you... Trompeta Toccata... man what a discovery it was for me.... Joe Henderson plays with so much soul and intention, you know what I mean. And Tommy Flanagan... one of my favorite piano players! Thanks for that subliminal recommendation 😁

Brilliant video Jamie, I like your method of instruction 👍

It was helpful to show the difference in vibrato styles, which help define different genres, especially the sample of how Sonny Rollins & Charlie Parker used it at the end of certain notes. Recently I noticed that Coltrane hardly ever used vibrato.

Excellent tutorial as always Jamie - very interesting and I'll definitely be practicing that now. Thanks so much for your generosity!

Thanks Jamie for that Great Video. Very Helpful. Great Example of Technic and different Styles. I like the Vibrato Kirk Whalum is using. Love your Sound and Teaching. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Germany

Thanks Jamie, really interesting to consider the different music genres and types of vibrato. I’m a year in to playing and still trying to get my head around the mechanics. Is it all about lip pressure and is it equal around the whole ring of your embouchure? Is the jaw or tongue moving at all?

Excellent as usual Jamie, thanks for this. Vibrato is certainly something I have been overlooking. Great job, loving the new format👍

Thanks for the great lesson Jamie. When I listen to Ben Webster playing ballads he used a lot of vibrato but how does he get that "fuffy" "breathy" sound?? it is very expressive

Hey Jamie... pls your help regarding vibrato... on Dexter Gordon's Blue Bossa, on 3:00 he uses a kind of vibrato that can't be made just with larynx. Am I right or is it that I need to practice my technique more? Thanks in advance!

The bleating goat sounds more like a throat vibrato which is a harmonica technique.

< Hi Jammie: Only Jaw vibrato ?...no diaphgram vibrato whatsoever? Thanks! >

Excellent advice, as always, Jamie. Thanks lots.

I'm sorry I missed you live. You are a brilliant communicator and an awesome saxophonist (pronounced your way, of course!). This is one of your best lessons yet. So crystal clear to follow, and to hear the beautiful impact on sound and style. Wow, I have work to do .... ~Larry (never the lamb)

I'm only 2 minutes into the video, so no exercise of patience here, before sticking my hand up for a question...but you say vibrato is changes in pitch, what about changes in volume? Oh, a visit to the interweb informs me I'm thinking of tremolo. Topic for another video?

Great tips Jamie, thanks very much again 🤩

Another perfectly presented lesson. As an aside, one of my favourite vibrato effects is the iconic breathy Ben Webster sound on the low notes. It's hard to describe in words (and I'm certain you'd do a far better job than me) but the effect is produced by very gently pulsing the airstream; almost like your closing your throat a tiny bit by repeating an ever so subtle/inaudible 'k' throat feel as you softly blow through the horn. For reference, Webster used this technique on the very last note of every ballad he played and imo its sublime.

Thank you once again Jamie fantastic input as always

An important video 👍. My first sax tutor wouldn't let me get away with naff vibrato.

Shit, I thought I was doing well, but it turns out it was the bleating goat. What happened to the Doy-yoh-yoh-yoh-yoh for vibrato?

Funny thing is when I sing I have a natural Vibrato, when I`m Saxing I do sound like a Bleating Goat, lol

Thanks for the great lesson, Jamie. I've just discovered your channel and am gradually working my way through all of your videos. Thanks so much for your wonderful teaching!

Does the tempo have anything to do in vibrating triplets vs 16th notes or it’s a player preference ?

Excellent lesson Jamie. Thank you!

I've noticed with my playing that I have started using my larynx more with my vibrato instead of lowering my jaw. Is this a bad habit when playing vibrato?

Gracias por lo que haces, lastima que no este traducido. Un abrazo

It sounds like a wasp flying uphill n downhill

Thanks mate

Great explanation - thank you.

Brilliant. Thanks for the lesson!

What is the name of the machine you are using for beating

Great video

Thank you!

My topic of the moment 😉👌🏻

Thanks sir

Why do so many of these instructors have saxophones that look like they've been stored under a bathroom sink?

great lesson

Is it only me, when I drop a bum note. I get so mad.