This tutorial consist of lessons showing you tricks, and techniques to emulate a bender unit using a guitar without one.

This tutorial covers usage of the volume pedal, from the obvious to cool stuff to try and placement in your effects chain.

This tutorial covers delay parameters such as level, repeat, and time; plus placement of the pedal in your effects chain and applications.

Overdrive, like distortion, is an effect often used in rock. This tutorial covers all aspects of how to start using an overdrive pedal.

Distortion as an effect is the heart of rock. This tutorial covers all aspects of using stomp box distortion pedals.

OK you need a whammy bar for this one, but it doesn't have to be fancy. I played the example on a cheap strat. Besides, a whammy bar can open so many new doors for your playing, not just dive bombs and harmonic manipulation. Look at Steve Vai - he plays melody lines with his bar. This trick just scratches the surface of what you can do. Physically, this is easy to do. Just depress the bar r...

Here\'s a fun little sound effect first used (to my knowledge) by Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the great theme song of the 70\'s - \"Free Bird\". Using a slide (I prefer glass) or any other other object that produces the same results, move it around on the high E and B strings in between the end of the fretboard and the bridge. Depending on the shape of your guitar, you might...

This is a pretty cool trick, and it sounds kind of like a truck horn. This is fun to do when some one is singing song about a car, and it works great in truck driving man. Try working with your volume knob on this it gives it a nice effect also. b=bend, rb=release bend, hb=hold bend

This bend, or should I say double bend makes this sound like a train. You can do this in different ways, you can bend, and release, or you can bend and hold. this is only half of the effect, the other part is using your volume pot on your guitar, or use a volume pedal. Danny Gatton used this technique quite a bit to simulate steel guitar, you can also use the the tone pot to give it a wah wah effe...