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EASY WHAMMY BAR GUITAR DVD – Tremolo Guitar Lessons For Beginner and Beyond $9.96 Some of the coolest sound effects in guitar history come from use of the whammy bar! Many guitars come equipped but guitar players often avoid using them or are very limited with what they can do with them. In EASY WHAMMY BAR GUITAR DVD expert guitar instructor Mark John Sternal sends the viewer off on a 1-hour-39-minute exploration of this amazing guitar accessory. Section 1 Open String Technique… |
Learning how to play lead guitar is an art and it can only be mastered using some of the most important and advanced techniques like string bending and tremolo picking among many others.
The most important part of playing the lead guitar is playing it well and using the various techniques to your advantage without going out of tune. Guitar techniques come into picture only in the advanced stages.
The tremolo or the whammy bar as many call it is a useful tool when it comes to lead guitar techniques and can bring out a distorted sound that is common in hard rock or heavy metal bands like Metallica, Megadeth and Dreamtheater. Some of the other lead guitar techniques include doing the slide and string bending.
Slides
When doing the slide on a lead guitar, you need to take care of an aspect, which is raising the strings of your guitar a little higher of the neck. You can always use an extension nut for this purpose. For sliding you can use your hand or another instrument called the slide. When you press the slide against your guitar strings, the pitch of the strings change and you can even vary the pitch to an extent by moving your slide upwards or downwards on the guitar neck. Slide is a lead guitar technique that is also known as the bottleneck guitar. It is an effective technique because it helps you to create pitch transitions continuously on your lead guitar.
String Bending
String bending also known as radial pitch-shifting is an important technique of playing the lead guitar. To create string bending, you have to move the string that has been held down in a particular direction, which is normally perpendicular to the axis and is always parallel to your fingerboard. This is a type of pitch-shifting that is most often used by in a rock or heavy metal band. String bending is most commonly used with other distortion techniques for making the lead guitar playing sound smoothly and melodic. It is limited to not more than 1 or 2 semi-tones but you will get to use even 3 semitones once you are highly skilled. Instances of 5-semitones can also be seen especially when you hear the guitar solo played by David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) in Another Brick In the Wall Pt.2 from the album “The Wall.” This solo has become an anthem in Rock music history.
Tremolo Picking
When you need to play some fast phrases on your lead guitar, you can use tremolo picking. With the help of tremolo picking, you will be able to play a particular note multiple times in quick succession. It is also known as double picking and you can do it with your finger or with your pick. The main reason for using tremolo picking in lead guitar is because it adds more sustenance to melodic lines.
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How can I install a Whammy (Tremolo) Bar on my Guitar?
I have a Squier Stratocaster by Fender and I’m looking to install a Whammy Bar… not because I’m good be just because it’d be cool to have. I hope someone can help… I found this easy install one on eBay that can use regular strings… but I’m hesitant to buy it. I hope someone can help me!!!
I may be wrong about this, but I thought that all Squier strats already had whammy bars.
Anyway, if your guitar doesn’t have one already it is NOT easy to install and would cost more than the value of the guitar to have it done. Just buy another Squier with one.
With that grade of guitar, a whammy bar is a big headache when it comes to tuning and keepint the guitar in tune.
Examples of Tremolo (whammy) Usage… By Request.