The Next Bend: The B-Blender Adds B-Bending to Bigsby Vibratos — Without Cutting or Drilling

Posted 09/08/2015 at 4:26pm | by Damian Fanelli

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Folks, meet the B-Blender, an aftermarket B-bender unit that can be attached to any guitar with a U.S.-made or imported Bigsby vibrato. The B-Blender is special—and very intriguing to a lot of guitarists—because it allows you to use your Bigsby the traditional way, as a normal vibrato unit, changing the pitch of whatever strings you happen to be playing as you employ the vibrato. Yet—and here's the cool part—it's also a B-bender.

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Heaven & Hell with Tony Iommi: Overcoming Overwhelming Odds, and the Right Way to Play "Paranoid"

Posted 09/08/2015 at 3:36pm | by Tony Iommi

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Hello there! Welcome to my first Guitar World column. I'm looking forward to sharing with you in these pages my thoughts on playing, equipment and the music business. Actually, this isn't the first time I've written a column — I used to do one many years ago for an English music magazine called Beat Instrumental. I did it for about eight months and it was great fun, and I'm sure this one will be too.

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The GAS Man: Should You Buy That Vintage Wreck? Part 3

Posted 09/08/2015 at 3:02pm | by William Baeck

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At a minimum, you should send detailed close-up pictures of the guitar to your repairman. But for the most accurate assessment you need to let him or her look it over in person so they can feel what’s loose, take measurements, etc. Allow time for your repairman to take the instrument to their workshop so they can examine it in detail without you staring over their shoulder.

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Is the Ridgewing the Guitar of the Future? — Video

Posted 09/08/2015 at 8:11am | by Christopher Scapelliti

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If luthier Tim White has anything to say about it, his Ridgewing guitar will be the future of travel guitars. Or maybe guitars, period. Built of carbon fiber, the Ridgewing is a completely modular full-size guitar that can be broken down for storage and travel and reassembled in a flash. The entire instrument can be carried in a small briefcase.

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Jazz Guitar Corner: Using One-String Scales to Break Out of Box Patterns

Posted 09/04/2015 at 5:47pm | by Matt Warnock

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One of the most beneficial ways to learn scales on the guitar is to break them down and work them out using the common “box patterns” for each scale. This system is a solid way to organize the neck and get any scale under your fingers when first exploring these melodic devices on the fretboard.

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