| Hand or Lip Vibrato?
I was talking to friends last night and the subject of Hand or Lip Vibrato on the trumpet came up.
I was taught using the Harry James Method of playing and therefore I use Hand Vibrato.
Harry believed that if you use lip vibrato then you would detract from the over all quality of the sound of your vibrato, (specially students with weak lips) and therefore used hand vibrato. He felt that this vibrato could be totally controled.
In the beginning when I was playing for the first few years this was totally true for me, but as my lip got strong I found it quite easy to do lip vibrato.
I can do both very proficiently but always end up using hand vibrato because this is the way I was tought and is at the core of my technique.
I always thought that using hand vibrato looked a little silly when playing because the way you have to noticibly shake the horn. Is this just me?
Id like to get some input from our own Manny on this if youre reading this, and also what are the pros and cons of these two very different techniques?
So which type of vibrato do you use and why???
Rick AKA Trumpet Man |