Better tone and ideas

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This is all great stuff, but I'd love to hear some tips on how to get that tone in your fingers. Any vibrato tips or phrasing tips. Any good vids?
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Pretty sure there's procedure or something?

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MattH wrote:Any vibrato tips....?
Back when I was a teenager and obsessed with Yngwie Malmsteen, I spent a solid week doing nothing except work on my vibrato....trying to develop that extra wide-style vibrato that Yngwie has.

I literally did nothing else for a week than work on achieving a steady wide vibrato (a semitone or more) using every finger on every string, pulling strings downwards for the bass strings and pushing strings upwards for the trebles.

At the start I could only do it very slowly. bend-release-bend-release-bend-release. But after a few days, the muscles in my hand/arm got conditioned and I could do it faster....eventually in time with the music.

It was probably the most boring week of guitar practice I ever did, but I would say it turned out to be the most useful week of my guitar life. I'm a pretty average guitar player compared to other pros, but having a strong vibrato makes me sound better than I am and has got me a lot of gigs over the years.
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MattH wrote:Any vibrato tips....?
Back when I was a teenager and obsessed with Yngwie Malmsteen, I spent a solid week doing nothing except work on my vibrato....trying to develop that extra wide-style vibrato that Yngwie has.

I literally did nothing else for a week than work on achieving a steady wide vibrato (a semitone or more) using every finger on every string, pulling strings downwards for the bass strings and pushing strings upwards for the trebles.

At the start I could only do it very slowly. bend-release-bend-release-bend-release. But after a few days, the muscles in my hand/arm got conditioned and I could do it faster....eventually in time with the music.

It was probably the most boring week of guitar practice I ever did, but I would say it turned out to be the most useful week of my guitar life. I'm a pretty average guitar player compared to other pros, but having a strong vibrato makes me sound better than I am and has got me a lot of gigs over the years.
Yep - I've got a good vibrato off the ring finger, but my index finger needs some work. Those bend vibratos are where the real sweetness is too. Good tip!
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