Have you considered practicing bends as much as you practice scales ? This video shows a routine to practice half tone , whole tone and minor third bends. It shows how to play more than 30 bends in a particular key and relates the pends to the pentatonic and major scales. Full diagrams available at
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nice tone shall give it a go
ledzeppeliner 3 years ago