FULL COURSE: www.truefire.com Join TrueFire for free - www.truefire.com On Twitter - http On Facebook - www.truefire.com whammy bar (properly known as, yet mistakenly named the tremolo bar) for advanced pitch modulation duties. This is one of my specialties and definitely one of my favorite electric guitar tools. For the uninitiated these next two segments will serve as a great start to a life of ultra-cool whammy-filled madness, for those of you with a fair amount of experience with the wiggle stick you may be surprised to see theres more to the bar than you expected, and for those without a trem system of any kind—what you see and hear throughout this course may merit a trip to Guitar Center for a new axe! My bridge is set to float by default, meaning: theres a rout underneath my bridge that allows me to not only depress the bar lowering the pitch, but also pull it back to raise pitch. No rout? No problem. You can have your guitar tech set your bridge to a faux floating position by adjusting the bridge to sit forward, lifting the back end off the body thus allowing you to pull back (this is how the undisputed heavyweight champion of whammy antics, Jeff Beck, has it set up). I have a Hipshot bridge on the 73 Strat I play throughout these next two segments. To ensure tuning stability with the absence of a locking nut system, the guitar is equipped with Graph Tech hardware at both points of string contact—the bridge saddles and nut—to allow the strings the best possible …

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