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Ever wonder how guitarists like SRV and Jeff Healey get that silky, singing sound? Philip Sayce demonstrates how to master the art of the vibrato, from bending into the pitch to shaking the note with soul.
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00:00But for me, the thing that grabs my heart and my ear is always the vibrato.
00:04It's always that kind of like real singing vibrato,
00:07whether it's somebody like Carlos Santana or somebody like B.B. King.
00:11They've all got this kind of real silky sound to their vibrato.
00:14So I'm going to show you the way that I like to bend into a note
00:17and shake a vibrato with my ring finger.
00:20And this is inspired by people like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healy,
00:24Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, many, many players.
00:28But it goes a little something like this.
00:29All right.
00:34Yeah, that right there.
00:43So that's kind of how I like to bend up to the pitch.
00:46So bend up, in this case, a full tone, bend up to the pitch and then shake it.
00:50Other times you kind of bend into it and then get there.
00:53So it's not quite as like...
00:55A little slower, like...
00:58You can get it singing like that.
01:02Yeah, I like that.
01:03You can get it singing like that.
01:04You can get it singing like that.
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