this is john petrucci i'm here at reverb.comhanging out we're going to talk about gear and playing and lots of fun stuff.so with any sort of floating whammy bar if you hold a note you knowobviously that the whammy bar is on springs it goes you can bend a note bothup and down so it's it's floating in both directions it's almost like if youhad a ruler on the end of a desk and you flipped it and it kind ofvibrates really fast that's what you're doing. you can do it the other way this wayit's fun well you always have the horse right theeddie van halen
yeah that's fun was like it it's kind ofneat you know you have the sach method where you you playan artificial harmonic here the van halen which whichyou play a note you know we mentioned holdsworth beforeone of the things i picked up from him was using the bar to kind of slur up tonotes like and of course justtraditionally using it for vibrato which here's a funny thing about guitar i talkabout a lot it's very easy to make it sound bad especially because you canmanipulate strings and bend notes and they can go out of tune and everythinglike that
whammy bar technique is one of thoseways you can make the guitar kind of sound bad so so i always say you knowwith your whammy technique as far as vibrato is that you want to try to gofor this kind of smooth thing now one of the things that you can't necessarily dowith traditional vibrato is go above and below a note so when you vibrato anote you're going up to the pitch and back down right you can't really gobelow the pitch so what the whammy bar enables you to do is say the notes hereyou're able to go above and below and target that note in the middle and ithink it's important to keep that in mind if you don't do that you're justgoing to have one direction like
it's fine for a certain vibe but to geta vibrato that's smooth so imagine you're kind of like bending the barbyou know it's always kind of returning to the note it's going below and above this is called the jp16 andit's part of our anniversary series it commemorates 16 years that i've beenwith music man and whenever we offer a new version of the guitar we like to dotwo things one of them is keep the features of the guitar that that aretried-and-true but at the same time we want to offer something that's new andexciting. for 16 years i've been using
the music man bridge which i absolutelylove but i wanted to do something different. why not? it has a little bit different feel to it for players that like floyd'sthey know what i mean. it's a different sound it's kind of a brighter sound tothe guitar as well if you like the locking nut system of course ithas that and the guitar will never go out of tune so yeah floyd rose isanother floating whammy bar that just has a different feel. it might beslightly more sensitive i would say that that anything that you could do on withthe music man whammy bar you can also do with the floyd rose it just it has adifferent kind of sound i think it's a
maybe a little bit more rubbery soundingso the things like i was doing before like that the littletrick that i was showing you it's almost like more floaty and alittle bit more sensitive i think to the touch and in those types of tricks.
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