Blues string bending lesson style of Stevie Ray Vaughan SRV

[qwertyuiop46853]

This is one trick I've never heard of before, where did you learn it David? Also, in which songs is this technique employed?

[katodmx007]

i got one problem, i think my strings are way too high to "scoop" them under the way you do.

[yamahabigbear123]

in the sky is crying dvd do u teach the hole song

[premiumwatchsellers]

Daaaaa.... THE'RE ALLLLLLL AWESOM

[LesPaulFreak10]

Mary is ~the blues king~ and David is the ~dirty player~

kinda trowns you dont the street lol

[idigitalianstuff]

his lips don't move haha

[Conguero2004]

Man, don't you have another baseball hat?

[MrGergen]

ill come up with my own licks. i want some rhythm lessons

[FamGuitarist]

SRV doesnt play the blues; the blues plays SRV

[TheSvenien]

Hey .You have some nice Guitars . Love the tune of them..

[megalith6]

nice: also check out Albert King for this ;)

[Zarrinkoub]

dude, turn down the distortion.

[MrGergen]

@Zarrinkoub

its the damn humbuckers too

[awow100]

can you do a lesson on love struck.

[chicken316]

this guy thinks somebody is listening...moving on...

[eXtremo1254]

nice strat :)

[malbo733]

you're crap

[Chuckrocker101]

this may be a silly question, but can you bend strings on an acoustic guitar? Also can you bend strings on chords like eminor for example? Thanks that would help a lot :)

[Ivinchuca]

@Chuckrocker101 bending on an acoustic guitar is one beautiful thing so of course you can xD

[TheSvenien]

I have watch your Licks so many time.Please Play more and speak not so mutch.You r fenomenale. But i.am more interested to leorn than here you speak:) i.am 53 y,age.and love to leorn Blues. before i go to end of my days:) (BAD HEARTH)

Thanks sooo mutch for sharing.

[GSVC1985]

Hey man! I'm from Brazil, and every time I need a help, I can count on you! You teach and PLAY very well!!

Lovely SRV lesson!

By the way, if I have a problem in a music, can I send you the video link to you see and you record a lesson about it, and share with us??

Thanks for the great help!

Keep Rocking!

[hawaiidoves]

David, You are a very good teacher. You explain things very well!!!

[gogogrant]

Thanks so much, great video!

[Guitarman1192]

i get all three strings

[slickrick199525]

I do that trick on accident alot and i happen to notice it before the next note so i just add the strings into the note its pretty awesome.

[kweerb8]

a double humbuckered strat. thats retarded.

[charliemurphyslaw]

@kweerb8 not really.

[slickrick199525]

@kweerb8 Your reatrded for saying that personal preference buddy. remember that.

[Pvoorr65]

nobody can play like THE stevie ray vaughan, don't even try it, you're makin

a fool out off yourselfs!!!!!!!

[crittoprrr]

@Pvoorr65 We know. We can only play like ourselves, but what's wrong with learning a new technique? If the argument you're making is that only Stevie Ray Vaughn can play two-string bends then you're kinda standing on quicksand here, aren't ya?

[slickrick199525]

@Pvoorr65 We cant play like him but we can imitate hia actions with guitar with alot of practice its possible.

[JaniHamalainen]

nice plying but why everyboby try to be the steevie somebody says he is not good??bt i like hes playinng hes only 11111111

[maximsguitarworkshop]

this is a bending lesson for beginners to improve the control over bending

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[novadeaf]

Che video del cazzo...Ma quanto chiacchera questo?!?

[jonw82]

This guy isn't very good at all, at least in blues or SRV style. There is 2 players who do really good lessons for SRV style, with thumb hooked over the neck, proper muting and raking of the strings and aggressive pick attack. If you search for SRV lessons you will find them. They have proper tone as well. This guy is okay for teaching beginners but he's not very good. It's his personality that makes people like to watch him (or hate him), not his guitar playing.

[slickrick199525]

@jonw82 Everyone has their own opinions I think he is great he just helped me learn that lick not even the string bending but the lick he was doing to show it off Thanks david!

[jarirusi]

Don't blast this guy too much. He seems to be devoted to teach.

[AndyAndreev]

what an idiot

[PinSeeker0688]

When I bend the strings that much....I feel like I'm going to break the guitar.

[std7136]

Dear David pleas stop teaching wrong things to the young one. You are bending the strings with your fingers only, which makes it very hard to control the note. Bending always have to come frome the wrist joint not from your fingers only. E.G. Look at the videos of Steve Lukather he knows how to bend strings in all kind of varieties. Please stope teaching wrong stuff. Pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssss­sssee!!!

Happy new year anways!

[slickrick199525]

@std7136 Thats something that you just figure out overtime with practice believe me I know. And by the way you use your whole arm for guitar so how can you not use your wrist.

[holaquetal60]

shucks...amigo no trates de encajar el alma, el sentimiento en un video. SRV es alma = SOUL!!!!!

El blues no es tecnica, el blues es alma...como decia el gran stevie..dejalo salir, asi es mucho mejor.

[Simon048]

i love it when he says: hello g ood people!! xD

[kevykev38]

Cool lik ! When i heard stevie do this ...I was like....Woowhat was that? Never heard that before. easy to do and fun to do while your trying to think of what to do next....lol If your not fluent in guitar conversation this helps while your thinking.

[SamuelDrake27]

Your action has to be pretty dang low to pull this off right...

[RickyBrant15]

who cares what the fuck he is playing on.. blues is blues no matter what piece of wood you're using

[jonesy22k]

albert king played a gibson flying v with a les paul neck, and yes it had humbuckers?! and what about the bluesbreaker album with clapton, on which he used a les paul with humbuckers,

[drowzy721]

How can you teach a blues lesson on a stratocaster with humbuckers....get the single coils!!!

[mavericknoone]

albert king played blues with humbuckers. true he played a different guitar, but they are still humbuckers :)

[sLevnZelevn]

Oh no!! Humbuckers?!!!

[WakizashiSabre]

Any problems with humbs?

[huyiy]

i agree, i think a strat should have at least one single coil, and neck position!!

[jukeking1]

@drowzy721

Blues is in the heart and the fingers. Go watch all the Jr. Watson Vids. He sounds like Jr. on all those different guitars. Buddy guy has a Strat w/all single coil, a LP with HBs, a Tele w/Lover designed Wide Range HBs. Lotsa different guitars don't make the player sound great. The player makes the guitar sound great.

Check out Junior Watson on the 50s Harmony Stratotone. That was a $40 guitar, when new. Tone is in the fingers . You gotta dig for it. Don't be shy.

:^)

kingjuke1

[drowzy721]

ive kinda changed my views ever since getting into BB King and Joe Bonamassa who use humbuckers in their gibsons, still think single coil os good for blues, humbuckers do get that sustain for exellent solos though....tough decision lol

[jammjunky7]

I've always been able to do this move but have never really studied & broke it down....thanks for explaining exactly what I have been doing...I also use my pinky on the bend up with the little E changing the structure & pich..it's a pretty cool thing to do...thanks again...great lesson!

[longarinij]

Great lesson. Thanks. Do yoy do these lessons out of he goodness of your heart? Youtube rocks! I am 47 and getting back into guitar after 20 years ... its a whole new world.

[Lucazzz69]

Maybe because of the Neck confort? maybe because of the Body wood? Maybe because the tremolo? Maybe because the easier acess to the higher frets? There are many other great stuff in a strat than the single coil configuration.

[deapwavelio]

This guy is a good guitar player, and blues player, you are just stupid. His tone is different to Stevie´s but is good to.

[deapwavelio]

Hey stupid, he is teaching something, not trying to make you think he sounds like Stevie. And at the beggining he tells to learn it to use it on your style not to imitate Stevie.

[tavotrooper]

is because he is NOT stevie

[AspergerMusic]

I like the guitar!

[mickemmagin]

fuckin spot on!

[dude9521]

i had the same reaction.

[seerattan]

better of you do a review with sngle coils

[wavybuttsack]

hahahahahahahha

[StJamesProductionsMI]

His guitar also has humbuckers and probably 9 or 10 gauge strings, versus Stevie's single coil strat and 13 gauge strings. The tone will definitely sound different; this isn't a lesson on tone, it's a lesson on technique.

[SoloBen247]

look at u nigger tryin to sound all professional and shit..lick my balls u fat cunt

[Yuktarth007]

Do you have a SRV signature Strat ?

[puppetmaster532]

its because he is useing 2 humbuckers it makes the sound alot fater not like single coils

[RockNostalgic]

so, i dont trust you, until you show me how you are doin' it better !

[Agar101]

this dude has lighter strings and humbuckers so totally different tone.

technique is actually the same though

[Agar101]

nicholas cage much?

[Seana1Ford]

Hahahaha

[edominant7add9]

thats very texas floodish :D:D

just because its SRV!!!

I like that man's energy and clearity among giving video lessons. He's not here but I understood whole things in his every videos

[william1theguitarwah]

reverb!!! what the hell man stevie didn t use reverb plus to much distortion

[Rk17]

i wonder if david has hair??  hmmmm...

[Andy13deanguitars]

SRV is the best blues guitar player ever !!!

[littlewing4813]

@Andy13deanguitars Without a doubt.

[xMASdestructionx]

Dude.

David Taub is awesome.

[robdorg]

you must be one of those good people.

[ElementSkatar]

thanks

[CBreur]

You better watch a Stevie Ray Vaughan dvd for a proper Stevie Ray Vaughan string bending lesson!

[guitarreviewsbros]

i'm probably going to get thumbs down for this but i think it's definitely to much distorsion for SRV tone !!!

[Esmitherz64]

i agree its just a little off

[william1theguitarwah]

to much distortion, srv relyd on his amp for his tone and just a tad of overdriv on solos

[digbycurrents]

I'm going to the dentist tomorrow to have a tooth removed.

[colombiano822]

although srv did an amazing job with this technique the guy that got me wanting to learn this was definitely Gary Moore... if you want to hear this tech used A LOT listen to some of his blues albums!

[FENDIN10]

No. I'm having a crap day and my fingers hurt.

[sapnin45]

Texas flood demonstrates your point the best on the solo part of the song. When i first heard that, I said how the fuck is he doing that!!

[jukeking1]

Y'all d oknow that Texas Flood was FIRST recorded by Larry Davis in 1959 when SRV was four years old.... Stevie just almost perfectly covers Fenton Robinson's guitar playing. from the Duke Records sessions in 1959.. Stevie just added the tube screamer and the volume.

Duke Robillard and Roomful of Blues also released this tune before SRV.

DO the research.

And this guy giving the lesson doesn't remotely have a chance of makin' a pimple on Fenton's or SRV's ass.

[Obsession225]

is low action essential for this?

[SpawnofHastur]

SRV used a very high action, so probably not.

[vdbdg]

I learned that trick from Slash ("Outta Get me" for example). Check out his solo for "Street Child" by Elan, he makes that Les Paul wail like a beaten puppy with this technique (little cover of this on my channel)

[DAYANKEES45]

love to by your dvd's... awesome.... i have to check the website out to find how much money they are

[schnurr31]

frusciante does that a lot too

[Hb35Jazz]

Forgot to mension ALBERT KING, when you were talking about the second pentatonic "box" ☻

Didn't Albert use it almost all the time? ☻

[BigRickBitch]

haha

"bb king,clapton, stevie ray"

uhhh. wht albert king. i think they named the box after him hah

[benrudolph]

SRV is my absolute favorite of all time. I love "Little Wing" especially. Rock on, man. I love the double-humbucker tone!

[tango616]

god you guys are so awsome, rock on

[luisACDC]

hey man how did you get that awesome sound.what do you use. i want all details

[cewattt]

it sounds like mistreated from deep purple :) rock on david you are awsome. i am plannig to buy your dvd's. and i am from turkey. is it possible?

[rockongoodpeople]

Hi - thanks for the kind words - most appreciated. Sure, we ship our dvds all over the world - no problem!

rock oN!

DT

[leavittobeaver]

@rockongoodpeople just remember guys make sure you get your info right when your talkin srv cause people get really pissed lol

[slickrick199525]

@leavittobeaver aint that the truth. lol

[TheMahagoni]

@cewattt thats so right mannn absolutely mistreated!! haha

[Hb35Jazz]

THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR, SINCE LIKE FOREVER! :D Thank you so much for posting!! :D

[Ehrokyn]

David you rock!!!!!! Que Dios bendiga lo que estás haciendo mi hermano!!!

[rhcpmd]

i learned this from john frusciante. But SRV use to do this a lot

[PhototropicLemon]

it's easier with a strat. with a les paul..err

[xxjemjemsxx]

cool sownd

[iLuvFudge234]

i always have trouble bending the high e string.

is my action too high?

is it my strings?

help please!

[turoasaur]

more info? but trust your instincts, does it feel like your action? probably is! maybe you need to use more fingers, try using three fingers for more power. if its more power you need maybe just practice more, do warm ups etc.

[iLuvFudge234]

i use as many fingers as possible when i bend, so i doubt its that, but im used to bending down instead of up, which is obviously the only option on the high e. mabye i just need practice. =)

thanks for the help!

[bnapoleonc123]

how do you bend down on the high e? The high e is the thinnest string on the guitar at the bottom of the enck, so the only option is to bend it up. Do you mean th low E?

[iLuvFudge234]

i meant that bending up is the only option =)

[bnapoleonc123]

Cool, IO thought so, cause if not, then there was your problem lol. Other thingas could be to make sure you are not bending with your fingers, but using your wrist and forearm rotation (sort of like turning a door knob). When you do that, try and hook your thumb over the top of the neck for extra leverage. Also, what gauge strings do you use, lighter sets like 0.9s are easier to bend. I hope that helps, but if you can give some more details that would be great. Good luck anyway man, rock on!

[iLuvFudge234]

hey thanks for the tips

to tell you the truth, im not really sure what gauge strings i have. i have a pac 112j and it has the original strings if that helps. im pretty sure i dont have the lighter ones band i know i dont have the extra heavy strings so... in the middle? lol

[bnapoleonc123]

Nah man I donl;t know about that, maybe if you try changing the strings to a lighter set? Bedning is hard thouhg, but it;s great once you can do it, I think the vital thing to remember is to really use your wrist/forearm and not your fingers, that made a lot of diffference to me anyway. Best of luck!

[Tockiro]

great explaination and guitar technique, very compliments, please see my blues video and post your comments if you want

[KingJoffyJo]

is he tuned 1/2 step down??

:-/

[her0indragon]

i like taking that lick and TOTALLY GOING THE EXTRA MILE ON IT YEAH

[rockerdude29]

my friend jamie bwas playing guitar,and his string broke and flew back and cut his arm.So Im always afraid when I tune my guitars with new string,like once it gets almost to what note it should be,I start cringing real hard.Thats the worst thing ever aint it,buying new strings,tuning them to what they should be,and the break for no reason.

[turoasaur]

it can happen, but it hardly does, just man it out a couple of scars from guitar is cool

[adserver]

You are doing a great job explaining this stuff. Especially to a banjo player!

[willazeppeli]

So that's how it works, Thanks!

[davoplace]

How does making a video of him playing guitar and educating his viewers make him gay, its people like you make this site bad.

[davoplace]

lol my string broke doing this but they were really over due for a re string lol

[bobcaygeonfrench]

He hauls out the SRV lookin strat but with two humbuckers instead?.

[Ballmeyer]

this is gonna get a lot of beginners with budget , high action, guitars sort of frustrated

[ShadoPoig]

Ack, I've been bending strings and stuff since I first got an electric a few months ago, and I hate whenever my fingers snag on the strings, and then that string rings really annoyingly and kills my whole song.

The way you do it makes bending seem so easy and smooth...

[Torfinnmadssen]

I've done this loads of times by accident, so this wasn't too difficult for me to learn xD

[RockabillyPinstriper]

i keep catching the strings and they pop out and ring out, but i got it smooth a couple times. just takes some practice

[rsbass822]

lol i do that too!!!! its makes a horrible noise doesn't it.

[knut005]

You shold add a warning, i bet theres alot of guys that looses theyr e-string.. i did, and now i always wear a helmet when i bend allot^^

[mcdonaldskilledme123]

howd u get a strat wit 2 humbuckers?

[nicecoolbuddy]

its a bitch to do on a guitar with high action eh

[justashellofaman]

I use this technique all the time. It's always on accident, though. Stupid, fat, stubby, clumsy fingers.

[DragnSly]

blues guitar mastery is all about doing accidents on purpose!

[jeteye97]

Big Bill Broonzy once said he couldn't play a guitar that was actually in tune, cause it wouldn't be the blues. Check out The Bill Broonzy Story 3 disk set of songs and interviews, recorded in 1957 shortly before his passing. I got a copy from my local Library, GREAT source material from an original master.

[ProDigit80]

Great tricks!

I'm not a guitarist, but still it's a great trick that I hear many play!

[HadesWTF]

Good technique, picked it up when I learned "The Ace of Spades" by Motorhead.

[kissIsbest]

i think i have seen him without ONCE, it was on a vid of another account, the guy was filming around at the namm festival, then dave came in. They talked a little ad stuffs

[jjsflyingbass]

lol today is actually SRV's birthday :)

[Torfinnmadssen]

Happy Birthday, Stevie!

[500passwords]

what model is that guitar

[tcrangle963]

just a fender usa stratocaster. just put his own pickups in it. coz u cant get them like that

[PilotDoofy]

Yes you can. You can get Stratocasters with all sorts of pickup combos, such as SSS, HSS, HSH, and even HH. Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine and Bradley Nowell from Sublime play with a HH Strat like this.

[tcrangle963]

well i know there are strats like this. but they are less common. theyr not available on the fender website. anyway i guess you can customise it yourself. id love an HH strat.

[prompen3]

wrong the HH strat comes stock with two Humbuckers....

and so does David's Big Aplle strat wich he uses here (or i belive it is the Big Aplle strat)

[tcrangle963]

the hh strats are not on the site. im quite aware there may have been before. what i mean is that the standard is sss or even ssh. an hh is pretty uncommon. i cant see them on the website. if there is send me a link. i wud b pretty interested in one

[prompen3]

They were discontinued in 2006, but still they used to come with HH configuration

and the Big Aplle strat i was talking about is from the nineties....

[tcrangle963]

i was born in the nineties!! i hadnt touched a guitar.

[PilotDoofy]

You're right, I don't think they're listed on the Fender website, but they don't always list all their models on the website. I've never seen their reverse headstock model listed on the website...

Anyway, I'd take a look at MusiciansFriend or somewhere like that because they carry nearly every model that Fender has made. I know I've seen HH and HSH strats on there before.

[tcrangle963]

yea i just did. pretty cool stuff. but out dated. no fair. thats like a connection between the gibson and fender camp...almost. i cant believe there was even a set neck fender range!! that reali wud make my day. however u got to love that sparkle that a bolt on neck gives

[rockongoodpeople]

The guitar I use in this lesson is a 1997 BIG APPLE american made fender stratocaster - they only made this model for a few years.

rock on!

DT

[srlej]

This is NOT tone for the Blues!!!!

Vibrato is very good!!!

[schnurr31]

i love how he cares a lot about guitar. too many ppl play now, just to say they play

[PilotDoofy]

I agree. I always love meeting guitarists who are just as in love with the mathematics and logistics of guitars as they with playing them. Knowing how they work and how to set them up to fit any style is just as much fun as playing to me!

[stonesolo]

FUCK man!! there goes another e string...(-,-)

[dejkola]

is it easy that it snaps if you are a begginer i am ;)

[Gitarmorten]

It's hard to make your strings snap......

[PilotDoofy]

Tune your strings down a whole step. It lets you do much crazier bends.

[Zhengtaa]

nice

[knut005]

Whoops, my high e-string took a journey to across the room when i bended xP

[modernway91]

always wear a helmut:P

[overmindzerg]

you never cease to amaze me. just when you think you know it all something new comes around. that is what i love about this channel. i always learn something new, even after years of playing.

[relentless43]

you are dead sexy

[Stra2casterAtHotmail]

fuck, I'm so jealous.. How many Fender's you got? damn!

[wimpy77]

that lick he was playing is from the sky is crying. great song and love stevie's playing.

[Frank332666]

nice lesson ;D

[GalBm]

ROCK ON cheers!