How to Play Blues Guitar Bends

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Hi! My name is John Armstrong from ExpertVillage.com. Today I will be discussing with you the ins and outs of electric Blues Guitar. Ok, now you may have noticed that a couple of times when I am playing the lead guitar stuff with the blues I am doing a lot of bending notes. We have bends, where the note is either bent or has some vibrato on it or where is note is either bend and stopped, and we have also always refer to it as a bend and release, where the note is bent from its original pitch, and allow to fall back to its original pitch. Another type of bend that can be really cool to use with the blues is what is called a double stop bend, this is where two notes are played and either one note is bent or both notes were bent, for example here if I just use this D note, and this E note, bending just the D note, so that it matches the pitch of the E, and you kind of walk that up to the neck of the guitar. As far as I use this type of bend here I use a D note, and in G note, okay, this is once again the key of A I am using my pentatonic scale, or if I also take the A pentatonic scale and bend just the C and the E bending both the notes together, it is like a half step bend… on the key of A at a very high octave like we bend an A note, and this G note, or at that same high octave or even lower octave to bend this D note and this G note.

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