Vibrato and Timing

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Welcome to this follow-up to the Vibrato 101 tutorial. As I mentioned in that tutorial, I thought that timing and vibrato merits its very own tutorial, so here we go. First of all, remember how we discussed the "smooth and even" vibrato in the previous tutorial, to avoid using the "EKG" vibrato? Having a smooth, and above all, even vibrato, means that the t...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Okay, so what do I mean by "floating time"? What this means is that you, whilst keeping your vibrato even, play faster or slower in relation to the beat. For example, one thing you could try is to set your metronome at 120bpm, and then practice the 16th notes. Then while still having that 16th note in 120bmp speed in your fingers, change the metronome to say...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: What I've done here is improvise over a 120bmp backing in Am. You can view this as either being pure Amin (A Aeolian), as I'm mostly doing in this improvisation. However, since the backing is largely situated around the G chord, you can also play the G Mixolydian scale, and make both yourself and the listener feel that you are in fact playing in G major...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: And here's the backing track. As you can see it's in A min, but as I mentioned earlier, you can treat it as G mixolydian if you'd like. The chords are Amin7 (no5), Fsus2 (even though the G is an octave up doesn't make it a 9, since there is no third), and G5. A funny thing to note here is that our ears will tend to "fill in" the missing chord notes. When yo...

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