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Introduction 0:00
What is vibrato 0:30
3 Parts to vibrato 1:40
Diaphragm pulse 02:35
Beggar's pulse 04:20
Jaws vibrato 05:50
Maroon 5 mmmm 07:40
Happy Birthday eeeee 09:30
Ghost ooooo 10:50
Scales 5 Tone heee 12:30
Scales 5 Tone feee 13:55
Octave Sustain sheee 15:00
Octave Sustain heeee 16:30
Octave Sustain feeee 17:00
Octave Sustain foooo 18:00
Many singers want to learn to sing with vibrato but aren't sure where to start.
In this video, I wanted to take a few minutes to show you 1) what actually causes vibrato, and 2) give you 12 different vocal techniques to find vibrato.
My goal is to help you start to learn to find that beautiful quaver and shimmer in your voice.
Ready to get started?
First of all, very few singing teachers and even fewer singers actually KNOW what causes this beautiful vocal effect.
But here's the secret:
All modern research points to the idea that vibrato is nothing more than a muscular tremor in your voice.
And just like any other muscular tremor, vibrato gets activated when the different muscles groups within the voice are pulling against each other.
You can think of these different muscle groups as the chest voice and the head voice muscles.
All the best vibrato exercises will have some combination of these two muscles groups pushing and pulling against each other to create that beautiful shaking in the voice.
Often, when you're first learning to sing with vibrato, you may find that it's difficult to get your voice to waver.
In the case that the voice is a bit tight, it's a great exercise to start by changing the breath pressure in the voice in order to "teach" the vocal cords how to quaver like in vibrato.
So, the two first vocal techniques to help you sing with vibrato are allowing the diaphragm pulse and the beggar's pulse.
In the diaphragm pulse, you'll be taking your fist, covering it with your other hand and gently pulsing the hands into your solar plexus. This pumping action will create a pulsing sound in the voice and is necessary to develop the oscillating breath pressure of vibrato.
The second exercise, the beggar's pulse requires that you wrap your hands together like you're praying and shake them in front of your body. This shaking will in turn, also shake the breath pressure in your body, creating a "vibrato" like sound.
The next 10 exercises all involve helping you achieve the changing pitch or wavering sound of vibrato.
There are several different ways you can stimulate the vibrato to start.
A few of my favorites involve working with different intervals and "allowing" the voice to shake or vibrate between the different notes.
To start off, try singing a minor second interval (like the "jaws" theme) and see if you can allow the pitch to waver between the two notes.
Next, try the same interval descending such as you find in the chorus of "she will be loved" by Maroon 5 in the lyric "spending ever-y". This descending minor second interval is also very helpful in letting your voice vibrate between two pitches.
Next, try a major second interval such as you would find in the opening notes of "Happy Birthday" and add the vowel "ee" in order to let the notes shake.
Now, as you begin to find the vibrato quavering between those notes, it's time to put them to use on scales.
I recommend starting off in your chest voice on shorter scales such as a 5-Tone major arpeggio. Try this exercise on the words "Hee", "Fee", "Shee" in order to let the vocal cords vibrato.
Then, as you begin to master these shorter scales, start using a scale with larger intervals such as an octave sustain on the same words: "Hee", "Fee", "Shee" and "Foo".