Getting better every day because of heroes like you. :) Thank you very much.

I like you. You’re a really good teacher.

I have watched many vibrato videos but this was the only one that seemed to fully explain the mechanics of vibrato and how it should be practiced and executed. Thank you so much!!!

Great vibrato method demonstration, for single reed woodwind instruments: "Yah," I certainly agree with you. As a professional trombonist however, I prefer using the Slide vibrato (an actual 3rd type), believing it to be much smoother and more expressive, on that particular instrument. In fact, It may help for other instrumentalists to listen to recordings of various Great Trombonists for that reason, too.

I’m a saxophonist myself and your videos help me sooo much!!!! Thanks!!!

thank you Donna! yah yah yah is woking for me,

Nice! I started playing on my tenor saxophone (first instrument ever) not so long ago but I kinda have a good feeling for it! It is a Conn Ladyface (USA) saxophone from 1939, got it from my dad when he died! I REALLY REALLY LOVE IT and by just listening to this video I already fully understand the vibrato and can play it!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I will definitely watch your other vids too! :) Greets SaxoFrenz

Great tips. I love Grover Washington and I notice that he never used vibrato but I think it's something you need to know and use in some songs like romantic ballads. Thanks

This was great fun to watch! Thank you for sharing your music knowledge!

thank you Donna for your recommendation

Thank You very much!

Thank you so much! I can do it now

Great Donna! thanks a lot for this clear and useful explanation. Greetings from Argentina

You are very good. Thanks for the tips

excellent lesson. thank you.

Really helpful! Thank you! Keep it up!

Very clear and concise Donna. :-)

Very helpful,,, Great. Thanks you very much !!

Thank you!

Well you got me there. I developed my vibrato (and my double tonging too) only after I switched to the oboe in high school. After several years studying and playing the oboe in several bands, I recently came back to my first love, and bought myself a tenor and a baritone (but kept playing oboe in bands). I've never noticed that I did my vibrato wrong on the sax, I just did what I learned for the oboe : diaphragm vibrato. It always sounded right to me. Never had a single bad comment on it. On the contrary, people always seemed to like my sensibility, which I believe is due to my oboist studies. Up to now it served me well, and I don't plan on changing my way of playing, though people on the internet seems to think that I am doing it wrong.

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Excellent video... Thanks...

Thank you so much!

I started playing alto sax four months ago. One day I wondered how the vibrato was supposed to be produced and I found your videos. I got it right away! Just like the note bending too! Your videos really help me to be better with this awesome instrument and to find my "voice" with it. Thanks!

Thanks so much i will practice it

aprendi bastante

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Thank you so much miss . I just started to learn Alto Saxophone. And I also wanted to learn Vibrato , your teaching is so simple to follow. Not everyone can afford the lesson miss I am one of them . God bless you and your Family too miss . Thanks 🙏

I don't know what genere I will be doing because I have not got started yet, but thank you for the lesson.

Good advice. I started as a clarinet player. My idol is Mr. Acker Bilk. His technique is really smooth, hence making his work really pleasing to the ears. Now I am into saxophone, but I still listen to his work regularly. I wonder if a clarinet player uses the same vibrato technique as the saxophone players do?

Im in mariachi trumpet player and I'm practicing my vibrato any tips?

Does this work for a trumpet player (mariachi)

Great video Donna. You make everything so easy.

Amazing videos!! I have a question about vibrato; do you have to use the tongue to produce it? or I only have to move my jaw?? thanks!!!

I have been playing for 3 months now, and it's really hard for me to do the vibrato! I tried the ya ya ya thing, but it didn't work that well... do you have another tip for begginers like me? Thank you!

Hey Donna, excellent video! Your explanation of Vibrato is fantastic! I'm playing a Yanagisawa SS992 soprano/Yani #6 metal mouthpiece. The hardest thing I personally find, is co-ordinating the speed of lower jaw/lip, when creating the Vibrato. What's a good technique, to get that faster 'jazzy' style of Vibrato.. Any suggestions? Bryn, Melbourne, Australia.

Dey Donna i just bought a selmer and the mouthpeice it came with the width is to small.so should i return it or get a new mouthpeice?

Ms. Schwartz, just noticed that you started making KZfaq videos. Do you still teach at Berry Hill?

Hi Donna. I'm student, learning how to play sax alto. lear bend the note go first than vibrato?

hi, please tell me, What is this model saxophone? I'm a beginner musician and I have it : john packer jp041 alto. Is this good saxophone? Please tell me

Isn't diaphragmatic vibrato actually tremolo? I can't see how one could modify the pitch of a note using the diaphragm.

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Does the note we play go flat when we vibrato and then return to its natural pitch like a wave? (I hope this makes sense)

Does this work as well on Little saxophones ?

When I say 'Yah' my tongue kind of moves, should i make sure it stays stationary when i do this exercise on my sax?

Thanks Donna. Regards from Costa Rica

what sax are you using. As in the model. I can see its an alto

what brand of mouthpiece is that? beautiful!

Hi Donna, do I have to tongue while doing the vibrato

See also: Woodwind Vibrato from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Performance Practice Review, 8(1), 67-72. tinyurl.com/yapad7p7 AND El Vibrato de Viento-Madera desde el Siglo XVIII hasta Hoy. Quodlibet Revista de Especialización Musical (Madrid), 18, 37-42. tinyurl.com/y96vdmc4

Nice mouthpiece! Great advice for the technic.

So is this vibrato using the tongue too?

i want 4octaves on key d

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Sydney Bechet!!

I like to play jazz

people on other videos say you have an accent. Noticed that think it’s nice

I'm a bassoonist struggling with my vibrato, so I shouldn't be here lol.

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