Floyd Rose tips/techniques/lessons

[Druglord]

I agree. Check out some Steve Vai. He is the biggest abuser of the tremolo I have ever ever seen. I'm not a huge fan of his work but technically he is way up there.

[MichaelLitvak]

thanks for the tips
now im having fun with the squeals

[Wayniac]

To get a GREAT feel for the bar - and get yourself calibrated -try this trick.
Vibrato a note with your fret hand - real subtle & slow, not a crazy Zakk vibrato. Now, finger that same note, and try to replicate the same slow subtle vibrato with only the Floyd, moving it up and down slightly. That will get you used to how much movement it takes to "wiggle" the note. Same thing with chords - nice lush chorus and reverb, and try to subtly make the chord - best way to describe it I guess- "shimmy" or "waver"
Besides that - wail away ! lol
I like crickets and chirps... you hit a note then flick the bar real quick, as well as harmomnic squeals and dives...

[jgcable]

I use my Floyds to ease in and out of notes mainly. It is really important to get used to playing with the bar in your hand at all times. I always keep the bar hooked around my pinky. Brad Gillis warbles are another of my favs. Especially with the Ibanez Low Pro's with the pop in bar.

[kmanick]

Geez ,where do you start?
Listen to Satch, Vai, Dimebag.
Go on youtube.com and watch one of shawn Lanes instructional videos , he does a whole section on easing into notes using the trem.
I use mine all the time for subtle vibrato (and the dive bomb pinch harmonic stuff too) but I learned a lot of subtle tricks from Shawn Lanes vids.
Every guitar I own has got to have a floyd on it.

[metalhead28]

There are some good suggestions here.

The bar can also be a helping hand too, If I'm doing some improvising and happen to end up with my fingers in an akward position or I do a weak bend with a stretched out pinkie or something, I can nudge it further with the bar and put some vibrato on it to sort of salvage the phrase and I don't have to give up on the note. I'm sure some of you have ended up in that situation, where you want to flow into a better note but you'd have to lose your flow or move your fingers to hit it. Don't want it to look like a mistake!

You can also get alot more mileage out of some simple legato moves by manipulating them with the bar a little. Try doing a 3 note hammer-on/pull-off flurry and just dip or pull the bar a little before you slide up or down to the next notes. Some carefully placed moves can make the phrase sound alot more snaky. A slow and short dive during a trill sounds pretty cool too.

[Nazgul]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtUiQ...0video%20games

here you have some ideas...you can make "bombing noise", "elephant noise", "motorbike noise" etc.

pretty fun to watch too!

[KevinDguitar]

Anoather way to use the bar and to get your ears and hands "hard wired" together is to bend a note to a specific pitch with your hands and then mimmick/match that bend with the bar or work on diving it to a specific pitch..doing either or these and trying to add vibrato will really work on the ear to hand connection. You can try bending an A on the 2nd string/10th fret up to a B and then up to a C and then release back to the original A note to make a little acscending/descending melody..do this first with your fingers and then mimmick it with only the bar and then try to come up with other melodic ideas once you really feel the connection is "wired".

[TheDragonknight]

http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=5tNYI...search=pantera
Here it is.

Dang, this makes me sad I sold my Peavey Vandenberg with a floating trem.. :/

[demeyes]

A cool trick I picked up from Satch is to bring your fretting hand over to the bar and hit a pinch harmonic on an open string and use the bar with your left hand to get some crazy sounds. Its really useful for opening a solo or for end of song jam madness! You can ease into a note as your picking it.
Cool songs to check out are Beat it and Cemetery Gates. There are some cool trem uses in those songs. Very musical too.

[levantin]

There are tons of cool tricks you can do with the wang bar, but to quote Satch,

"Sometimes the best way to wang is not to wang at all. Carefully detach wang bar from guitar and place in guitar case"

[Big Al]

My favorite thing is the trem flutter. I turn the arm facing away from the neck, hammer a note flick the tip (ha,ha) of the arm to get a flutter effect. Of course the tremelo has to be truely floating.
A volume pedal is also great to use with tremelo work.

[jwoods986]

+1 on the trem flutter, cool technique. A good example of it in a song is Vai on Whitesnake's "Cheap and Nasty". I don't know, everyone knocks the Whitesnake album he did - but I like it!

[horns666]

Didn't Brad Gillis invent "The flutter"..that's the first time I heard it..

Satch gave me a personal lesson with his depressed whammy bar harmonic dives..he likes to hit 'em between the edge of the neck and the neck pup..I can get really good ones right over the pup on the open G string..

play around in that area..I got my son doing 'em now..

Thanks Joe!!

[Soap]

http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=5tNYI...search=pantera
Dime does it again.