Octave Bends / Unison Bends

[lPlagueBearer]

fuck yeah!

[DemonEyesDara]

It's called unison bend because 'unison' has more syllables and sounds way cooler than 'octave'

[ShredMentor]

Yes this is simply called a "Unison Bend", since you're bending one note to be IN UNISON with the other. The word "octave" has no place here.

[2strong2cool]

thats not an octave

[mrcolin]

highway chile

[RastafariPoet]

They always did sound amazingly gorgeous to me. Especially when Jimi did it.

[mitb0r]

thanks alot for this video! my friend learned how to do it and now he is driving us crazy with doing it all the time :O

[Myuzishin]

Octave bends do exist tho. Hold a G at the 5th fret 4th strng and bend the Gb at the 7th of the 2nd string up a half step (mute the 3rd string). Chickin pickers use this alot.

[Myuzishin]

First off, props to you for posting a vid. Half these dweebs givin ya shit don't have ballz enough to put themselves up, so until they can do better, ignore 'em.

Second, its been hashed already, but I've yet to see an explanation as to why 'octave bends' is a misrep. 2 notes an octave apart have the same note name, but different frequencies. Your tute describes bending a note to meet the frequency of another, so they cannot truly be an octave. That name 'octave bend' is just not accurate.

[whitec3]

thanks , very helpful little vid when i needed help on these

[wilmpunk]

Finally. Thanks for posting this man. I always wanted to know how to do those! BTW, I have that shirt :)

[leopower7]

thanks! the unison bends drive me crazy!

also, don't care about the people whining, it helped a lot!

[RastafariPoet]

Yup me too

[rizZo52792]

Thanks for this, dude. I always wondered how to do those. Awesome Misery shirt, btw.

[Ercarnar]

Just one thing. LOUDER!

The sound of your amplifier is very low, it would be better people who want to learn this simple technique to hear clearly what you are playing!

[XLuckieX]

how very lame :D

[texasranga]

obviously nobody gets what an octave is.

[BatteryHuman]

an octave is a series of 8. in music, an octave is the 8th step below or above a note. Every note has or is an octave.

[Sebastian1633]

Any body who has a guitar a can put three chords together these days thinks that he's professional enough for teaching. Hahahaha

[BatteryHuman]

I suck at guitar. I just got tired of people asking me how to do this, and at the time there were no other videos on youtube about how to do it.

[BatteryHuman]

No its an LTD EX-351

[khbgkh]

octave bend is a terrible name for it. the word octave is misused here. i hate guitarists and their lack of knowledge... nice lesson though! stick with unison bend

[mallamoozoo]

yeah - there's nothing "octave" about it - the 2 notes are only 1 whole-note apart unbent and u bend the low one up 1 step to match it - no relation to the concept of octaves whatsoever!

[BatteryHuman]

you're bending the note to be the same octave of pitch as the root note. it makes sense to me.

[Brainman94]

Did you even read the comment above? They are already in the same octave even unbent - you bend it up just a tone, so they are in unison. How the hell can it make sense to you to then call it an octave bend?

[BatteryHuman]

I always heard it called an octave bend. The term makes sense to me because the note you bend becomes the same octave as the root note. I think Unison bend makes just about as much sense, since you aren't bending strings in unison, you are being a note be in unison with the root note, just like your bending that note to the same octave as the root note. so why couldn't you use both terms?

[ArwenApathy]

you have a funny voice

[gripus]

awesome

[crash7fuckingtimes]

Ive been playing in that way for years without knowing it has a name... octave bends.. kinda kewl xD

[B2Rockin]

Hey dude thanks!! thats awesome lol

[3221984]

Do you usually play tuned down to C or was that just for the his hero is gone cover?

[BatteryHuman]

I personally usually play in Db, but I mess around in C and drop B a lot.

[surfsunadam]

John Frusciante loves these.. me too. But not for shredding

[alejandrocruzz]

My God! You should register your prodigy lesson!

[wickedwanker123]

WHAT A LOWBIE

[mybandreverb]

are you playing a gibson explorer? :)

[BatteryHuman]

Nah, its an LTD

[kristinparker22]

Hey, thanks for taking the time to post this. I read about this in a method book, but it didn't really click for me until I saw you do it. Thx.

[democracidic]

hahaha dustin this is raaka i searched 'widdly wah' and this came up thats WEIRD

[LedShredder]

haha thats pretty good, im gonna use that

[SonicRyan]

lol u said g string haha

[BatteryHuman]

I broke my G string while fingering A Minor.

heh, theres a bit of really lame guitar humor for you.

[SonicRyan]

hahahaha

[dejv]

You mean unison bends?

Bending an octave would be pretty fucking hard.

[BatteryHuman]

oh, yeah, unison bends. I've heard them called both ways, I'm more used to hearing them called octave bends, not because you bend an octave up, but you bend it so the the string is bent to be 1 octave high than the note on the b string.