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noticingthemistake
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07/05/2003 3:00 pm
Originally posted by Niklasl
yeah and I've no trouble doing vibrato... but what is wide vibrato ? Its a bigger vibrato but how big ? over a full note ?


Depends on the person, but wide vibrato is just what it sounds like. You just do a vibrato wider than you normally do. Most vibrato is a 1/4 bend, wide vibrato is a 1/2 bend or (semi-tone). The way I play them is to measure on the guitar, a semitone bend is bending the string up til it touches the next string(respectively). If you take a look when you play a normal vibrato it's about half that, so wide vibrato would be bending the string up and down til it touch both surrounding strings. Hopefully that makes sense. :)
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