How Do You Use Vibrato Vocal Techniques?
“JAMES MENY: The idea behind vibrato is, and I do know that there’s some scientific definition of what vibrato is, but I’m just going to make it as simple as possible. It’s sort of a balance between the air pressure going through your vocal cords and the pressure of the cords squeezing against each other. A certain amount of give and take that’s allowed in there where vibrato can still happen. But what happens is basically the vocal cords tend to oscillate when it’s within this parameter of air pressure versus vocal cord pressure. If you take it out of that, too much air pressure or too little of air pressure, or too much vocal cord pressure or too little vocal cord pressure, the equation doesn’t work so well and you lose vibrato. The pluses and minuses of vibrato are, certain musics don’t like vibrato as what we’ve said before but the pluses are, if you sustain a high note, and I’m talking of a sustain like if you think of the song “I Will Always Love You” from Whitney Houston, if you
