This exercise helped me go from an arm vibrato to a wrist vibrato, While theres different opinions on this, I think that for the violin viola arm vibrato can be too big of a motion and cause the Wrist Vibrato : Lesson 5. Once you feel semi comfortable with your 2nd finger rhythms on A string, you get to try out the rhythms on your 1st, 3rd, and 4th fingers! I like to stay on the A string for The Three types of Vibrato, Taught By tonebase Violin Do you feel like you are working very hard for your vibrato without results? Locking the first joint of the finger (the one closest to your nail) is one of the leading causes of limited amplitude of Should You Use Arm, Wrist or Finger Vibrato? Or all of them?