Vibratos can add life to your playing. As its names suggests, vibrato is a technique that creates a vibrating sound around a root note. In classic guitar vibrato, we vibrate the string sidewards, right and left. This is illustrated in the following video:

Rock guitar vibrato is slightly different since you vibrate the strings up and [...]

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The guitar bend is a technique that allows you to change the pitch of a string, after it has already been picked by bending it up (higher pitch) or down (to a lower pitch).
You should bend with your entire wrist because a single finger alone may not be strong enough to bend the string as [...]

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A guitar slide is a technique where you smoothly transition between notes by sliding your finger from one fret to another on the same string. Slides are marked with a diagonal line (or “/” and “\” on an ASCII tablature) with the beginning fret on the left and the end fret on the right. for [...]

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The pull-off is the opposite of a  hammer-on. Both techniques help you play a smooth transition between notes, called a slur, or Legato. Like a hammer-on, the pull-off allows you to play more than one note on the same string with a single pluck. Unlike the hammer-on, the first note on a pull-off is always [...]

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Like a pull-off, a guitar hammer-on is a type of slur, a smooth transition between notes. It allows you to play two or more notes on the same string with a single pluck. As opposed to a pull-off, the first note on a hammer-on is always lower pitched than the next one.
To play a hammer-on, [...]

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