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Francis Santos

It's almost sexual!!!

Pushkar Sarkar

Vai-brato

gideons .mob

Steve is a TRUE musician and more importantly a REAL NICE GUY...met in 96 super nice...then in 2001 i started to get sick (still sick...kidneys) and a friend of a friend told him what a huge fan i was....this guy EMAILS me recommends books to me...PERFECT CLASS.... blown away.. So you can see why i get PISSED when ASSHOLSE from the VILLIAGE VOICE last year named him the douchiest guitarist...and i Called them up and ripped the editor and writer a new asshole!

Tommy Quirk

I still have the article that Steve did for Guitar for the Practicing Musician back in April '86. He mentioned two then unknown guitar players who used circular vibrato....Joe Satriani and Dweezil Zappa. I never forgot that. 

CusterFlux

If anybody's confused, next time you change strings, get a pair of pliers and create the extreme example.Then hammer & hold the old string with your left hand, somewhere around the 7th fret, but using your right hand & the pliers, pull the string towards the bridge from behind your finger ( somewhere around a lower fret ), sure you'll increase the tension where it doesn't matter - between the nut and the pliers - but where it does matter, at the pickup, you'll loosen it somewhat, and it'll go a little flat. Pushing the string with your finger will do a far more subtle version of the same thing.BTW, you've probably just wrecked the string with the pliers, or at least given it a nasty kink that can't wait to rip your finger open, but you're changing it anyway: or at least you better.

MF Kitten

Not sure if that makes any sense. Any pulling on a guitar string WILL increase the tension. The lowest pitch you can get in a vibrato is the zero-point. Any bending to either side will increase your tension. You could increase and decrease the pressure on the note, without bending it, to get that effect, but then you would need very large frets, and you'd have to tune the guitar so the pitch is only correct if you play hard enough, so it's slightly flat. Which would be a hassle to actually play.

reincaster

but when you press the string into the fret, and then push the string towards the bridge, you are decreasing tension on that side of the string and increasing tension between the finger and the nut. Its like if you pull on a clothesline, if you pull up or down, you increase tension on both sides of the line. if you pull in a parallel direction, one side's tension increases and the other decreases.

justin isberg

any strings will do that with enough force. Steve uses ernie ball 9-42 which are pretty slinky which is why he can do it without an awful amount of effort

justin isberg

it makes sense either way. because he isnt going exactly flat. if you listen he says "a little." its lowering the pitch but not by an entire half step. not to mention that the force he's using to pull the string in isnt enough to move the bridge.

Banu Alexandru

If he was using a hardtail guitar that would have make sense

GuitarbyCorey

Hey Lee, a floating bridge also behaves a little differently. In other words this would be a bit difficult to get on a fender or les paul stock style bridge. It is cool though isn't it ..... ;0)

justin isberg

he is pulling the string towards the bridge, which lowers the tension

Matias Maeck

hahaha ... ladies gonna love this finger lesson ....

Lee Cassidy

I appreciate what everyone's saying, that reducing the tension by slackening the string will lower the pitch. But have you actually tried it on a fretted note? Plug in a tuner and see how much force is required to do it. It's a ridiculous amount. Way more than can be accomplished in a regular playing position (and way more than Vai is clearly exerting). I'm not saying it's not possible, just that it's not possible with regular vibrato. You need to use very deliberate effort and positioning.

Will Hoste

he's right. if you push the string towards the bridge (rather than towards the not or towards the floor or ceiling) you shorten the distance between the point your pressing and the beginning of the string at the bridge so youre decreasing the tension, thereby decreasing the pitch of the note

Sonamor

Dude, he didn't make a "fundamental mistake." You did. Classical players are able to flatten the note by pushing the string toward the sound hole, loosening tension on the vibrating part of the string. You can do it on electric guitars as well, Try it for your self. As long as your fingers are calloused and/or grippy enough, you can manipulate strings to become flat.

james miller

You are completely wrong... if you do it right you can flatten pitch. You just need good technique.

bob will kill you

so what your saying is theres no way possible to bend a string to a flat note?

Sandarpan

I used to think the same as you. But then i tried it. Press down hard on a note and keeping that pressure slide your finger towards the bridge staying on that same note (i.e. don't slide on to the next note). If you check with a tuner you'll see that the note does indeed go a bit flat. Probably by 2-3 cents. Same with classical vibrato. So in a way Steve's right.

charliehustlenflow

thats what happens when u push the string toward the pickups, the tension decreases. which is why you have to start in the middle of the frets not right on the fret

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