Master The Art of Bending Notes

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Bend notes like your favorite blues greats by practicing half and whole step bending exercises to hit the pitches just right.

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[LoneDerangerer]

sell it

[Whiskeyfirst]

Best online blues-guitar teacher around! Salute from Holland!

[mcca7400]

this guy is... THE MAN

[Nicu52]

any vibrato lessons?

[rand98]

@Mynamesbob8, hey, how's it going. Your strings, unless _incredibly_ old and brittle, will most definitely not break. On any common electric, you should be able to bend any string up a full step and a half with absolutely no fear. If you stretch strings properly after changing them, you'll be pulling up (away from the fretboard) more than that anyway :-). Go for it!

[Mynamesbob8]

I usually don't use full step bends. All of my bends are half step. The reason being it always feels like my string is going to snap. Is that a fear I should just ditch because it's not going to happen? Or is that a realistic possibility?

[pliskinn0089]

get a teacher for a year or so then learn by yourself

[pliskinn0089]

its nice to see a real BluesMan doing some blues lessons for a change.

[Huffer777]

Thats what i did when i first started playing bass without lesson, just watching tv and doing it slow and steady, calluses are your best...best...BEST friends

[Pholtron]

The problem may be that the guitar is not set up to proper specs.

Some are so far out of wack, they can not be tuned

Take it into the guitar shop, have a Luthier do some magic on it.

[andrewt248]

I wanted to get good at bending, so I practiced for a month or two bending notes in scale passages while I was watching TV. Building serious calluses is a definite must! I also found that I had to set my guitar up a little different - raise the action a little bit to keep the string a was bending from fretting out as I bent across the neck radius.