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Professional classical guitarists almost exclusively play handmade instruments that are designed and built by small scale guitar makers. This way quality is ensured by the way it is constructed and material used, but it comes with a hefty price tag and a long wait time that not everyone can afford. Here is the most influential, iconic, and widely used guitars from among these elite bunch for you to feast your eyes and ears on. Since many don't have access to the the kind of luthiers mentioned above . . .
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IN THE BASSMENT
Many bassists play anything that comes to there mind. No problem with that, bass playing shouldn't be a brain drain. However, a few bassists choose to learn deeper aspects of music theory and bass technique and take the road less traveled, and that's why they stand out. Are you ready to walk the unbeaten path of . . .
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30 More Shredders
Ben Higgins is back! In this video, Higgins solos in the styles of Nuno Bettencourt, Steve Stevens, Reb Beach, John Sykes, Vivian Campbell, Guthrie Govan, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, John 5, Herman Li, Warren DeMartini and many others! Ben says: This track is just a bit of fun I cooked up. The aim was to sound like the players in some way, but not to directly cover or copy anything exactly . . .
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Here's a guitar lesson with B.B. King. In it he expands on his unique approach to vibrato and covers his special style of string bending. At the end of the lesson B.B. stretches out with a little jam. This clip is from B.B. King, DCI Blues Masters Vol 3, Video Tape 1. I recommend picking up the rest of the set if you can find it . . .
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GREAT GEAR
Here is, admittedly, an odd idea: equip a guitar with a single, movable humbucking pickup that you can slide back and forth while you play, changing the guitar's tone via the pickup's position relative to the strings. That's the concept behind the Pole Position, a guitar that uses a single sliding pickup "to give guitarists maximum control over tone." The guitar is the brainchild of . . .
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William Henry Marcus Miller, Jr. is highly proficient as a keyboardist, clarinetist/bass clarinetist and, primarily, as a world-renowned electric bassist, topping critics' and readers' polls for three decades. His resume brims with over 500 recording credits as a sideman on albums across the spectrum of musical styles: rock, jazz, pop, R&B, hip hop, blues, new wave, smooth jazz and opera! Miller is a two-time Grammy-winner and the composer/producer of ten critically acclaimed and genre-defying albums. Style, soul and intense professionalism has kept Marcus Miller . . .
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