I'm into blues soloing right now, and I just cant do the butterfly vibrato (i think thats what they call it). it the vibrato where u have 1 finger, usually index, on the fret and u rock the finger back and forth with ur wrist. its a bb king speciality. anyone can guide me on how to do this? i usually just vibrate by pushing the string up and down with the finger.

errr .. this sounds soo bad ....... wat u doing ?????????

exactly what you said... move your wrist up and down..

try this. imagine you're doing the up and down bend, but instead of moving your finger you rotate your wrist instead

i tried mate, but my finger is not even moving the string. it freaking hurts too.

for those wondering, heres the vibrato im talking about (at 2:30)



This post has been edited by archinkent: Sep 6 2008, 01:25 AM

best way to practice this is by hitting a note on the very low frets 1-4...
then bend with your wrist...
1 stroke, 4 bends to 4 beats to a slow metronome say 70-80bpm.

i guess i might try that, tho it seems so amateurish lol. well gotta start somewhere i guess

amateurish? tell that to one of the top sessionists in the country

actually, on classical, you rock your wrists horizontally left and right, not exactly vertically. and the strings hardly move at all but you can still hear the vibrato.
On electric though, you just move your wrists with you finger in one place. and dont put too much pressure on the strings.
Thats how i do it at least @_@

on such vibrato technique, there's actually not su much string movement. The finger barely moves the string, so you shouldn't feel any pain !

Just rotate your wrist "around" the part of your hand that touches the neck. For bb king, the contact point (or pivot) is certainly the first articulation of the index finger. For me, it's more the articulation of the thumb (i have small hands).

So rotate your wrist quickly, and you'll see your finger "gliding" above the fretboard, with the string in between. The basic is quite easy, it's harder to master it

Is this the one?

well if thats the one, the last note of that short lick i played. then you need to increase your finger strength, do normal bendings i find them the best and then when you get that do fast vibratos. when your fingers get strong enough that bending and vibratos are second nature that would come naturally.

Good excuse to self promo huh? Haha..

hahahhaha, thats like a simple lick compared to the things the peopple here do.

You mean like this? Haha, but not really that complicated lah.

wow i cant do that

long more to go for me,

Haha, chill bro. I have only played for 1 year 9 months. And i started late, at 18 somemore. You can do it if you work on it!

thats like fast! im at 6 years and i cant do that, i started early summore at 16 i think.

maybe i slack too much

Haha, just push yourself. Like I started learning COB songs and all to improve my sweeps. Always push yourself past your comfort point, then your fingers will learn to adapt and you'll improve. But make sure you start slow, don't straight away starts shredding uncleanly.

i can shred (a few mistakes here and there at times), just well......no motivation to go further. the 3 string + tap i cant do, only can do the 3 string well with a few mistakes here and there again.

duno 6 yrs after the 2nd yr kinda got bored of my guitar.