Intonation: Vibrato

Vibrato is inextricably linked to intonation as you do both with your bar, and it can be used to smooth over any inevitable slight intonation inaccuracies.

For this reason you should avoid vibrato when developing intonation as it will only blur what you are doing.

However, like everything else with the pedal steel, you need to be able to do it all at once, so applying

Vibrato when trying to pitch notes accurately is something else to practise.

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