Past Issues: March, 2011

Classical Guitar Vibrato Technique0
/ March 6, 2011 5:37 am

Classical Guitar Vibrato Technique

Vibrato is an expressive technique which emulates the sound of the human voice. There are many ways to create vibrato on the guitar. We will call the most popular approach “vertical vibrato” because it involves modulating the pitch of the note you are playing by shaking the string vertically towards the floor and/or the ceiling. This vertical vibrato is what [...]

Seven Heavenly Guitar Effects0
/ March 4, 2011 1:57 am

Seven Heavenly Guitar Effects

Every guitar player knows that incredible feeling when he finds a new sound for his sonic arsenal. And once the most important part, (I’m of course speaking of “tone”) is achieved, a guitarist can begin to use other weapons to shape his sonic attack. These tools are effects, and there are more versions out there than you could ever hope [...]