Blues legend BB King has a very fast, shallow vibrato. To emulate it, try taking your thumb off the neck and shaking your hand rapidly, but don’t bend the string more than a quarter-tone. Angus’ ...

All you have to do is rapidly bend a string up and down with your fret hand. Not by much - just enough to create a fluctuating, warbling sound effect. Players such as BB King, Brian May, Slash, Eric ...

Vibrato systems like those from Floyd Rose and Bigsby are designed to temporarily change the tension of guitar strings, usually at the bridge, to create subtle pitch variations or monster dives and ...

How do great guitarists bend a string like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix? One scientist sought to figure out how legendary performers make great music. "Very good guitarists will manipulate the strings ...