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The whammy bar can be used to drop (and raise on some bridges) the pitch of all 6 strings. It allows a number of techniques to enhance one's playing.
== Techniques ==
=== Dive-Bomb ===
The classic whammy bar technique is called a ''dive-bomb''. It involves simply pressing the bar down further and further until the strings becomes slack. Any notes that were sustaining when the dive-bomb begins will drop further and further in pitch until they turn into low frequency noise.