Bassoon vibrato help?

Question: Bassoon vibrato help!?

I have recently started playing bassoon, and am looking for tips or advice on using vibrato!.

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No, no , no!.!.!.! No lip vibrato!. PLEASE! For classical woodwind instruments there are really only two types of vibrato!. Diaphragm and throat!. I do a sort of throat vibrato but most people do diaphragm!. Can practice by starting slow with a metronome!. holding a note and making exaggerated pulsations from your diaphram of quarter notes at 60!. Ha!.!.!.ha!.!.!.!.ha!.!.!.ha!.!.!.
after you get comfortable with that and they are consistant then go up to eighth notes, then triplets then sixteenths, then finally up to quintuplets!. As you get faster the vibrato will orginate less from the lower abdomen but creep up higher!. Practice it everyday till it sounds good!. After you get it up to 5tuplets you can do an excercise where you do a measure of each of the above rhythms from quarter to 5tet, then back to quarter!.

after that sounds good then do scales at quarter= 60 doing the vib at 5 per beat!. (then practice with quarters on the off beat)!. You don'[t want to have your vib!. be an even numbered speed because it sounds square!. practicing it as scales on the off beats helps to keep you from accent ing each beat as you play it!.

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There are 2 ways to do vibrato--with the air flow or with the embouchure!. I suggest the embouchure method, where you just alternately tighten and loosen the pressure on the reed!. Try doing it slowly at first--when you tighten the pitch goes up slightly, and when you loosen the pitch goes down slightly!. Then just speed up that technique until it sounds natural and effortless!. Good luck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com