How to Use the Whammy Bar | Heavy Metal Guitar

Full Playlist:    • How to Play Heavy Metal Guitar   - - Like these Guitar Lessons !!! Check out the official app http://apple.co/1IFMYeJ Must Haves for any Guitar Player: On Stage XCG4 Black Tripod Guitar Stand: http://amzn.to/1KHP6HO Dunlop Trigger Curved Guitar Capo: http://amzn.to/1UrBL7c Korg GA1 Guitar and Bass Tuner: http://amzn.to/1Nafqfs Dunlop Standard Tortex Picks: http://amzn.to/1L4YMYy Ernie Ball 4037 Black Polypro Strap: http://amzn.to/1O8zLiu Watch more How to Play Heavy Metal Guitar videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/506482-... Alright. I'd like to talk to you very quickly about using the bar, sometimes called the whammy bar, sometimes called the vibrato bar. And it's something that's overdone a lot, so you have to be careful with it. I actually stopped using it very early on in my career. But, it's fun to play around with it once in a while, and if you're checking out the styles of guitar players like Jeff Beck, or Dave Gilmour, it's an integral part of their playing. So what they'll often do is play melodies, and take a note and just enhance it with the bar. Something like. So there you can really hear the vibrato, that definitely gives it a vibrato bar feel, makes it kind of anthemic. Jimi Hendrix took the bar to whole new places. He would do a lot of stuff with feedback and harmonics. So an example of that is, if we take the natural harmonics, say on the 7th fret, I can play with the bar, and it's going to make a really cool sound. Check it out. So that also has to do with the amp feeding back. I'm going to just do a couple more examples, and listen to how the amp feeds back, and listen to how I take the feedback and use the bar to enhance it. And let's see where it goes. Alright, that's it. I hope you've enjoyed this lesson on the vibrato bar and the whammy bar.