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TrueFire's Theory and Technique Tuesday - Featuring Andy Timmons
Let's talk about bending. Along with vibrato it can be one of the most defining parts of a player's identity and bending is something I love to do. It's a major part of what I do. So let's break it down a little bit and define some of those components that will help you improve your bending. Let's just start in the key of A minor. Get my echo level right and just a simple bend. We're going to bend from the D. Whole step bend up to E and I'm going to check the pitch of the note that I'm bending to, fretting on the B string, the E note. It's good to have an idea of what pitch that you're intending to bend to, because one of the most difficult things is tuning. When somebody's bending you get exactly to the pitch that you want to get to and talking about the different fingers to use. Clearly you can bend with any finger but the strongest to me is the ring finger and I'll support that finger with the other two fingers. So I've got my index and middle finger along with the ring finger then I'm also anchoring with my thumb. So you've got all these pressure points. You've got the top of the neck with the thumb. Again, I'm grabbing underneath the neck here. At that point, that finger has a lot of strength. Try bending up to the note without any vibrato, as difficult as that might be at first because it does take a lot of repetition to really build up that strength in these fingers but after a while I think you'll get it. There are several different ways you can bend this note. You can actually start from the fretted note and bend up to it. But you can also do what's called a pre-bend. You can actually start the note pre-bent to the pitch desired and bend down. You can also exceed the pitch and go to the next note. It's called an over-bend, but we'll get more to that in just a moment. So that's just a whole step bend. That's going from D to E. Now another way of working on that, like I talked about is fretting the desired pitch. You can do that and do what's called a unison bend. So you're actually bending from one note to another while holding that same note. So it's a two-note cluster and you hear it when it's spot on. This is easier with more of a fixed bridge guitar. The floating trem will tend to bend with you so it might be a little bit more difficult to achieve. But holding the note E on the B string, and then bending up to it from the D on the G string. Classic kind of Hendrix blues. That was just going up the pentatonic in A minor. Then when I got to the top I just bent another unison bend but from the G to the A, which is the tonic of that key. The root, relying heavily on not just the third finger, but the index finger and the middle finger behind it, bending up to the note, then adding that vibrato to it and there's that pre-bend again. That can be a really expressive device to use. Pre-bend descending and then have another note coming below it.

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