[Rick Lee]

The way I got my hands in shape to do vibrato was by using .010s. When I was a kid, everyone used .009s. Once I took my teacher's old school Kramer home with .010s on it and liked the way they sounded. After a week with that one, when I went back my own guitar with .009s, I had so much more strength and vibrato was so much easier. I've been using .010s ever since and so my hands have maintained the strength and thicker strings sound better anyway. Of course, you can always practice on a steel string acoustic too and then go back to electric after a week or two.

Wolfe, how did you record that? I would like to start doing sound clips like that, but have no recording equipment beyond my iPhone.