A tremolo will allow you to do all the Jimi Hendrix dive bombs you like, and the classic styling will ensure you look cool for your friends.
A whammy bar, or a tremolo, is a bar that hangs off the guitar's bridge that a player can depress or pull up on the change the pitch of the note being played.
As a guitarist, Eddie Van Halen is known for two-handed tapping, vibrato and a large use of tremolo picking.
By moving the tremolo bar up or down, you can move the bridge, thus changing the pitch.
Considering the big swoops and bends that the tremolo arm can deliver, the tuning stays remarkably accurate.
Featuring two humbucker pickups and a standard rocking tremolo, this crunchy guitar is built for rocking and rolling.
It featured seven strings, a Floyd Rose tremolo and three screaming hot pickups.
Other features include three custom ' 60s single-coil Strat® pickups, three-ply parchment pickguard, American Vintage synchronized tremolo bridge and Fender/Gotoh® vintage-style tuners.
The guitar also has a very sensitive tremolo arm, the use of which is a fully integral part of his playing style.
The orchestration is already almost classically Wagnerian; though there remains an excessive amount of tremolo, besides a few lapses into comic violence, as in the yelpings which accompany Ortrud's rage in the night-scene in the second act.
The pre-filter lets you add a tremolo, wah, or any number of more exotic effects to your sound.
The process of playing the strings very fast to create a kind of messy tremolo effect.
There are ethnic styles and even a " Mozart " style with tremolo strings that works great on classical music !
With a Floyd Rose locking tremolo, 3-way switch pickup switchin, and a birds eye maple fingerboard, the guitar is strong enough to endure the toughest playing.