Learn Five Tone-Bending Guitar Techniques

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Awhile ago, Darrell Braun—whose videos comparing various guitar models have been a hit on this site’s pages—put out a video detailing five techniques that can help alter your tone, and expand your creativity in the process.

This times he’s demonstrating five guitar techniques that include:

  • Harmonic Touch (0:25)
  • Pick Edge Tap (1:38)
  • Behind-the-Bridge Strum (2:42)
  • Behind-the-Nut Vibrato (3:58)
  • Manual B-Bender (5:13)

Check out the clip, and when you’re done, visit Darrell’s YouTube page for more of his videos.

Christopher Scapelliti
Christopher Scapelliti

Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.

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