Guitar lesson: Baroness's Gina Gleason teaches bends, trills and hammer-ons

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Baroness guitarist Gina Gleason is the special guest for Fender's Technique Of The Week in the video lesson above but actually gives her tips on three essential guitar techniques; trills, hammer-ons and bends. She even talks about alternate picking as a bonus!

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“I don’t think Baroness have a record ready – I think we have three! Twenty-seven songs, almost three hours of music“

Gina recently spoke to us with bandmate John Dyer Baizley for their first Baroness interview in nearly a year.

The Technique Of The Week series is well worth further exploration with some great tips from talented players. Including the fast-rising young artist Cory Young showing you the best ways to break out of the pentatonic box…

Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars, so spends most of his waking hours (and beyond) thinking about and trying the latest gear while making sure our reviews team is giving you thorough and honest tests of it. He's worked for guitar mags and sites as a writer and editor for nearly 20 years but still winces at the thought of restringing anything with a Floyd Rose.

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