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Jeff's Tip of the Week - Whammy Bar Tricks

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Uploaded by on Oct 5, 2008

Learn about using your whammy bar in this week's Jeff' Tip.

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  • do you abosolutely NEED a floyd rose to do the dimebag squeals, or do you just need something like what a strat has?

  • Hey heavy long story short yes you do need a floyd style bridge to do the dime squeals (harmonic whammy pulls).

  • man you are great on that whammy tricks!! i have a questions? i cannot duplicate the sounds of your guitar especially when you do that whammy tricks... is it because my behringer guitar pickups are single coils and not branded like dimarzio or EMG? or is it my vintage strat style tremolo bridge was not like the floyd rose? i have a nice fx which was a zoom 606 multi effects and a nice behringer gm108 amp. but i cannot sound like you... aaarrrgggh please help!!

  • Hey butirogs I watched the video on your youtube page cool song. You have everything going for you as far as the sound goes. Strat bridges can only do so much which means you should be able to do all the dive stuff. Unfortunately you can't do all the pulls. But there are a lot of great players who only used srats and do some really cool whammy bar stuff, look into it and you will find inspiration. Keep rockin I'll keep an eye on your page to see where you take it.

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  • great vid, the distortion is a bit...muddy and i dunno...behringery

  • "kind of sounds like a car starting"

    Damn dude, what the hell kind of car do you have? LoL Cool video though!

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  • very nice man im into the same type of stuff, sweet guitar too :) check me out on my page i think u would dig it

  • WHAMMY BARS ARE THE DEVIL! THEY JACK UP YOUR GUITAR!

  • @heavymetalwarrior725 i do them on my fender strat all the time.

    just make sure you're ready to stop and retune afterwards :P

  • can anyone tell me what guitar he used?

  • @heavymetalwarrior725 Ive been able to do squeals with a Bigsby, you don't need it. Now you won't get a massive drop in tune, but it's enough of a noticeable decrease to where the audience knows what you're doing.

  • lol, 4:01 sounds like the "dancing song" from Sleepwalkers (can't remember the name)

  • you should get an ibanez jem or a guitar with a fernandez sustainer so you can do whammy bar tricks forever!

  • or you coul dbe cheap and to the harmonic and do e behind the nut bend lol not quite as cool

  • the whammy bar harmonics you dont pick the string if you want do high harmonicsa you have to put down the bar and the string is going to be flat and you pick in any place of the guitar you can do a god harmonic

  • SOUNDS LIKE JEFF BECK AT THE INTRO. ane the guy's name is jeff haha.

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