Another tip, practice your bends and vibratos on dry clean sound (clean channel, low gain, no reverb, no delay). When you come back to bends and vibratos will feel much easier and tastier.

I couldn't believe he said vibrato is a guitarists trademark. So very true!

Good Vibrato is everything imo. When listening to people playing at Guitar Center, that's the first thing I evaluate. Crappy Vibrato = Crappy playing from my experience. Great Video!

Your vibrato is totally awesome!. And thank you so much for sharing.

Finally A vibrato lesson from a guy who can vibrato

Gary Moore and Michael Schenker are huge influences for me

Very good. I like the strength exercise at the end, I am going to try that

Cameron, thanks for this video. As a big Satchel and Wylde fan this video is so useful

I don't know how I came across this video, but thanks for this.

I clicked on the video just to see that paint job :).....great playing bud

thanks for making this video mate you answered my question perfectly and i tend to use more than 1 finger quite often not just playing guitar if you catch my drift

Your playing reminds me a lot to Russ Parrish (AKA Satchel) Awesome video dude!

How long have you been playing guitar? You have very nice style, reminds me of classic 80s rock/metal. I love listen to your playing!

great lesson Cameron, there's amazing melody in your playing. Nice to see you using Rich's stormshadow guitars as well.

Having a good vibrato is hard to achieve on frets that are low and unpolished, there is more resistance, that's why tall or jumbo frets are popular. I have several guitars with Stainless Steel, which makes it all that much easier like skating on ice, this is why a lot of guitarist like Eddie, Steve Morse, Guthrie Govan, etc. are using them, not to mention there durability

My favorite vibrato is John Sykes for his control. I've never heard control like his. 2nd favorite is Zack Wylde because it's so... wild :-P

Your vibrato is killer. 👌👍 awesome tips!

Great video man. I've been coming over to this vid several times when evaluating my approach to vibrato (playing for 6 years). Few questions I'd like to ask (if you happen to answer back). One is how do I mute the other strings while not choking out the bent one? That's one of the main issues I've been having with wide vibrato. A lot of times it tends to be very sloppy sounding with several strings ringing out. Not to mention that I have small hands, so it is fairly tricky to get a proper grip when doing the twist action, especially on the low E and A strings. My second question is can I use a metronome or click to work on controlling my vibrato? As a way of keeping the bends consistent, on time and on key, and to avoid mindlessly shaking your wrist like a madman and producing the "nasty mosquito" vibrato.

For me the high E string vibrato is tricky because it is only up movement. just for something to consider on the same topic. For a great vibrato I am lately impressed by Bonamassa's. At some point I was practicing some Van Halen solos and I found his vibrato very peculiar and demanding... Now I am suspecting he was using the tremolo, something you could know best. Sorry for stretching it too long, but I bet you are using 09 gauge. the trend seems moving toward heavier gauge and I got used to 10s and pretty heavy picking. I am not sure it is a good idea for fast and agressive styles of playin though...

Thanks

Another great guitar player with killer vibrato is Doug Steele. His favorite guitar player, Brandon Ellis, also has excellent vibrato. Both of them have great channels.

Thanks!!

Tip #1 can be applied to guitar playing in general, I think. It hit me recently that you see so many players on KZfaq that have great speed and general technical ability, but their bends and vibrato are really painful to listen to. Thanks for contributing to rid the world of that :) I'm thinking of starting my own channel, posting guitar related videos like you. Any chance you can tell me what I need to get started?

3:20 I see what you did there :P

Hi Cameron, Great lesson. Quick question: what gauge strings are you using? I'm on 9s and I'm struggling to get it as wide and awesome as you. I assume it is due to weakness since I haven't been playing much lately.

Cannot stand shitty vibrato, more people need to watch this. Well done!

thank you

Damn! Great lesson!

Good tips. Your very good.

Great, thanks!

starker Sound !!

Still come back to this and still can’t dial it super wide like this

The problem i often have is, that when i am bending for example 3rd string....the 4th is going over my bending finger...what could i do against this?

Thanks Cam!

Excellent stuff!

In my opinion if people want get a get a metal vibrato, they should listen to Shencker, DeMartini, Friedman, Lynch, Jake E. Lee(especially in the song Rock and Roll rebel) and early Zakk. Those are some names I can think off right now, there are many more I know.

Cool channel subbed!

great info, thanks for sharing!! is there any practice routine that you'd recommend, ie exercise, practicing methods, etc. Cheers mate!

Zakk wylde and dimebag influence me on the vibrato

I know the rule about your finger tip muting the string above by touching it but sometimes it’s not necessary how do u know when to and when not to

6:55 You can hear his dog snoring xD

Are you using your Yamaha thr10x for this?

It possible to sound like your influence but very hard to achieve it to completely copy it

As a new owner of a "pink" Charvel 2016 Pro Mod... I have come to really enjoy viewing your vids. I must say, your tone is always stunning... what are you using to create your tone on these vids??? Nice tutorial as well on "vib" :-)

what effects you use for this preset? sound so nice

I recorded myself playing a Satch cover and I hate how I did vibrato in that cover .. I’m fixing it because I hate that twitching style vibrato ... I’m sticking to the wider Vibrato sounds 10 x better .

You want to set your action pretty high, so you have the strings more on the top of your fingers when bending, right ?

FAVORITE THING ENDING VIBRATO . YAZ TEAR IT UP ON SPEED TO AWESOME TO YOU I CANT DO IT .ITS GENETIC ATTRIBUTE FOR THAT VAN H THING . BUT I CAN PLAY FAST IN A ROCKABILLY WAY.AND OWN WAY .LIKE YAZ SAYING . I NO ALL THE SCALES THEORY . BUT INTO ROCK BLUES AND PUTTING Y STUFF TOGETHER....SUB YA SO YOU'LL POP UP NOW ...AND YEA STEVE VAI IN INCREDIBLE IN ALL HE DOSE AND THAT CIRCLE VIBRATO IS WOW

I am trying to hold vibrato on double step bends. I suck. Well on my LTD is easier. My 10s on the strat ? My God. LMAO. Yes. I am not that good yet. I'm enjoying the learning leads. I can't believe I waited this long. Apmts made drums nearly no go.

I have short thick fingers and i tried to do a vibrato with the wrist action and i couldn't make it happen. 😫😮‍💨

where did you buy the fake Charvel headstock?