| dauminator3 - Congrats to you!
I agree with Toots, again. :)
Vibrato shoud be used as the style of music dictates. If you're going to become a well-rounded player that gets called to play in any and all types of groups then you'll need to be able to control vibrato (among other things).
Now I don't know if there is an absolute 'correct' technique. I don't think about it too much, but I think jaw movement / lip does it for me, but I also think the diaphram plays into it for me as well.
Pick up some recordings of repsected players, listen to what they do, and copy it. When you can do that, then start changing it to be faster/slower and harder/softer. To me, learning to listen is almost as important as practicing.
Greg
PS - Here's also some good thoughts on techniquie from Nonsense Eliminator on TrumpetHerald:
"Both lip vibrato and hand vibrato have their plusses and minuses. Lip vibrato can help you keep your chops loose, by keeping them moving a little -- kind of like wiggling your toes to keep your legs from clenching up when you're standing still for a long time. Also, in my experience, lip vibrato is more likely to become "part of the sound". I find hand vibrato often sounds like something added on top of the sound, whereas lip vibrato sounds like it's mixed in. Lip vibrato can also help you "zero in" on the centre of the pitch. I also think it might be possible to achieve a finer degree of control of the exact shade of the vibrato using a lip vibrato.
The main drawback of lip vibrato is that it does become habit. I used to have a real problem with using too much vibrato, too much of the time. (I use a lip vibrato.) It took quite a while to get it under control, and even now I occasionally catch myself using it where I don't mean to. Generally, what I have found helps is to do some or all of my daily routine without any vibrato. Also, simply playing long tones and really focussing on controlling the vibrato -- faster, slower, wider, narrower -- can help make you aware of what's going on.
I guess I prefer lip vibrato, with the caveat that you MUST be careful to stay aware of it all the time.
As for when, that's really complicated. The style of music makes a big difference, and not just "classical" or "jazz", but German vs. French, Romantic vs. Classical, Bruckner vs. Mahler, natural trumpet vs. valve trumpet vs. cornet, and so on. The kind of ensemble matters too -- wind band vs. jazz band vs. brass band vs. orchestra. What kind of line you're playing -- solo vs. section vs. soli -- and who you're playing with also make a big difference -- flutes and fiddles use vibrato all the time, horns and clarinets do seldom if ever. Everybody tends to develop their own internal "rules" for what they do with vibrato. Listen to recordings, and experiment." |