Sliding & Bending?

[Richard_close2u]

Stuart, I have just migrated and updated that topic from the old forum to here:

Bend that B string

Here’s a tip you may find useful if you have just started on string bending and are struggling to make your bends sound right. I wrote this after I had just finished a lesson with a student. I had started him on the A minor pentatonic scale and I wanted him to get the feel for a bit of string bending. It is common to struggle with this at first … in terms of technique and in terms of ‘hearing’ the note to bend to. I showed him to slide to the note first, then play the bend, th…