March 2009

I'm getting very frustrated with vibrato. Something that I longed to do when I first started violin, yet I hate to do them now, because they are so hard. I'm very jealous of people where vibrato happened to them "overnight". I had the urge to do vibrato only a few months after I started, watched alot of video, read about, and felt dyslexic when adding the bow hand together. Now, I've officially been taught vibrato by my teacher, I'm much better than before, but the only decent vibrato that comes out are from 2nd and 3rd finger, 4th is weak, but at least it's vibrating, first finger is just pathetic.

What is more frustrating to me is that, my vibrato is not continuous. I'm practing vibrato using The Swan from The carnival of the animals (holding it like a violin, not like a cello!!), and my teacher told me to do wide vibrato on quarter notes and longer. I just can't do them. I can only do it when notes are longer than half note or the note is at the end of a phrase. :(

I want to cry!!

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