Bending Technique In Blues Lead Guitar

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[@AzreBalmung]

IVE BEEN DOING BENDS WRONG MY WHOLE LIFE. WTF... IVE BEEN PLAYING FOR 10 YEARS. THANK YOU JUSTIN!!!!

[@andrewbuck8853]

keep practicing buddy. youll get there

[@dominolexington9435]

I had been, too! I was totally bending with just my fingers, but using the arm & wrist, once you get it, ends up being WAY easier.

[@tommydiehl6794]

Same here after watching this vid. Always used my fingers. Didn't realize something was off until watching The Boss's live version of Streets of Fire...he bends and bends (the whole solo is a bend) and it looks like he's choking the life out of the guitar (the correct way)...when I did it I was not able to recreate that sound because I wasn't 'choking' it but daintily bending with just my fingers. This really helps with vibrato and sustain, I always lost sustain with finger bending.

[@AndresKwan]

7:49 Bending in tune - one whole tone 10:34 Bending in tune - one semitone 11:39 Bending problems, Avoiding seagulls - solution: Only up bending - muting after the bend and release 13:51 problem flicking the string - solution: muting with third finger 14:47 do strings should go under or above the fingers while bending? 15:45 what if bending hurts?

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[@francinekhoo4914]

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[@justinguitar]

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[@35mmonrose]

6:20 technique 8:10 exercise

[@flugelblarghen]

Holy crap. Tried it once and now it's the most natural thing ever. So much easier than trying to muscle it with you fingers

[@justinguitar]

Glad it's working for you :)

[@akileish23]

Hey Justin, I'm sorry that I haven't thanked you all these days. You thought me my first chord, you told me about learning by ear before I even understood how it works, and now you've made a video which bombarded all the doubts and hesitations I had about string bending. This new Blues Course is so brilliant already! As a person who's trying into getting into Blues, I can't wait for the stuff on the way. Thanks a jillion times for everything.

[@MarbsMusic]

I spent hours watching a VHS tape of BB King back in the 80s and a lot of trial and error to get a really good bend and more important vibrato, your lessons are fantastic! They would have saved me a lot of time 30 years ago! Sharing and showing my sons as they are learning and the detail you provide is fantastic!

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thank you, Justin this is such an important skill to learn, not only for the blues style. your lessons are so thorough and well thought out, you are definitely the best guitar teacher on KZbin

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[@LikeAGroove]

6:27 i used to do it like that and i would touch other strings and pick them but now the way you showed me it's much easier and i'm not picking any other strings, thank you

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[@ffederel]

I've just watched a number of videos on bending, and yours was by far the most helpful. Thank you so much. 🙏

[@dmike03]

Loving the new blues course. Thanks Justin!

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+dmike03 Cheers Mike. Lot more cool shizzle on the way!

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[@flexwinggpipi]

one lesson I'd like to see is vibrato while in the bend .I struggle with this but I guess I just gotta practice more

[@DS-zo8xs]

Sooooo helpful. It's the little details that make a great teacher. Thank you so much!

[@iLoveNeurology]

I'm a beginner learning on acoustic and this video finally helped me get my bends sounding right. Time to finish learning Wish You Were Here :) Thanks Justin!

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why would someone thumb down this video? best string bending lesson I've seen on KZbin.

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I love this series Justin. You are right on in your technique description about string bending. You are such a great help to guitar players everywhere! Thank you so much!

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This radically changed the way I play guitar! I owe you big time! Can't thank you enough!!

[@SybrenRoefs]

Best and most thorough string bending video I've found. It helped a lot, thanks so much!

[@dustdevilz4771]

Very few teachers even mention the importance of muting at the top of the bend. I’ve been buying online lessons from a guy who never spends time teaching fretboard techniques, when it’s maybe the most important stuff. Like slides, bending, double stops, hammer on, hammer offs, plucks etc, all that stuff…Learning the fundamental technique correctly from the start to avoid learning bad habits is so important!!…If you walk into the room when I’m prenticing blues lead you will reflexively duck you head down to avoid all the seagulls flying around. I’ve know it sounds bad but I’ve never learned how to deal with it properly…and I hate guessing and piling bad habit on top of bad habit….Excellent lesson Justin, thanks!

[@bellhops]

I am a guitar tutor and this is very good description of bending. Doing everything I also do when teaching bending

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[@patrickestwick5675]

I am literally now learning this technique and it is a BLESSING to find you EARLY before bad habits set in

[@jbf16falcon]

The way I use my Peterson strobo stomp tuner for bends is to bend to pitch before ever looking at the tuner and first asking myself did I hit it? Did it sound sharp? Did I think I was flat? then look down and see. It must be instantaneous, but easy once you do it a time or two. Soon my ear was fine tuned to almost exact rather than just really close to pitch. Once I did this for all notes, I noticed my music sounded so much better and made micro bends sound more spot on too (never used the tuner for micro bends just ear trained already using tuner for bends to specific notes. Really taught me to use ear as the guide). Then quit the tuner entirely. Watching the tune as you did it would only teach you to use the tuner not your ear and you would never learn pitch just how to bend until a display says good. lol This lesson really helped me on technique as a was really using my fingers more than wrist action and using the pivot as instructed made my bends more evenly controlled through the pitch range to target note if that makes sense.

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[@PetroniusArbiter66]

This answered so many questions. Thanks!

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+PetroniusArbiter66 ur welcome :)

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Been playing for 15 years, never learned how to do this properly. Very helpful video, thanks!

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Amazing lesson Justin. Opened a new world with string bending. Really well explained and has stopped me doing every wrong 😂. Thank you

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[@kennethochoa7550]

wow!!! again.... i just learned this bending technic from carl browne and what a show stopper, when ever i've tried bending it was a catastrophe but with your guy's tuts i'm ready did you KNOW i never even knew why you bended, except that it sounded cool but the line u used was gold, you want to bend to pitch. YOUR JUST STRIVING TO HIT THE NEXT NOTE OR IN SOME CASES I PRESUME THE NEXT 2 NOTES actually ur just bending to hit the next note on the scale SO SIMPLE AND YET SO HUGE, SO MUCH TIME IN THE DARK THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR GUY'S TUTS

[@marchallaert7372]

Best string bending lesson I’ve seen. Thank you!

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[@manojdeka5110]

An outstanding lesson I have seen today on bending.

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At last. A teacher that I can understand and learn from

[@praveenk1284]

Just starting to get into blues techniques now and found this lesson. Amazing stuff. Very detailed and methodical. Sincere thank you Justin !!. I am going to subscribe to your channel.

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+SubhanZombie would you fucking stop spamming that everywhere?

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+SubhanZombie it's not cool to act like that dude! If I didn't see this post then I was about to ban you! What's there to make a video about? it's a preference!! thin = easy to bend. thick = harder to bend, better tone. That's it!

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+JustinGuitar Sorry :-) I deleted my comments.

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Thanks, Justin! I'm doing everything on an acoustic guitar these days, so it's a bit harder with the G string. This is the best training I've seen on this topic. Keep it up!

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fantastic lesson to get started on string bending! thanks muchly

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Thank you thank you thank you! I got so much better just playing along the video!

[@kinciscorner]

This solves a ton of questions I have. Thank you very much. Although I still can't do it, at least now I understand what's going on.

[@damnfreakingsien]

String bending is one of the few techniques exclusive to guitar. Great video!

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Thank u so much!!! The step by step demonstration is very very helpful for a beginner like me who is struggling with bending.

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[@kirchoff4733]

I did the whole exercise on an acoustic guitar, steel strings. It was difficult and it hurts but it works and I got it now.

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[@TheSpliffstarEffect]

Fantastic tutorial that helped me out a lot. I also can never unsee the fact that Justin looks like the English Norm MacDonald.

[@conirish2004]

great post thanks

[@Brewer_]

Thanks for the tips. I've been trying to learn the 2nd solo from Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd and was using my fingers instead of my whole arm. This helps immensely.

[@GuitarPrinciples]

Great lesson Justin. That is the way I teach it, the power comes from forearm rotation with fingers held rigid to transfer the force. 2 other important mechanics: the thumb must push down and the wrist must not be allowed to come up. Students constantly do these 2 things wrong.

[@mattbrogan8603]

Great lesson Justin , as always

[@Lemon_Productions_TV]

Super helpful!

[@shanehutchinson785]

have played guitar for years but I had a very long break and recently I have started playing again and for the last 3 month have been getting intense pain in my fingers and the top of my hand I never had this before all them years of me playing, quess what I lost my bending technique and I was bending incorrectly!!! but now I'm back on form with the right bending technique with no pain!! now I can bend them big srv bends effortless without getting sore 😝

[@swagatambanerjee4102]

Another fantastic lesson !!

[@leofreitasmusica]

Hey justin, fantastic work as always! I''ve been watching and learning from your old blues lead guitar videos, and now I'm looking forward to tuesdays because of the new ones! Thanks for all the help, man, you're great.

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[@mattklinger8644]

Came here to learn blues techniques. Got through stage 6 of your beginner guitar, and have been hungry for just learning stuff. This will definitely take up a lot of my guitar energy! lol

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[@danieljorg2914]

A very fun bend i remember is the kinks all day and all of the night solo - check it out. not classic blues but when i think of bendings this always comes to my mind

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Great lesson. Great teacher. Happy to have donated.

[@thehighwayman78]

Excellent explanation and tutorial! Thank you!

[@alucard66692]

I've been doing it wrong the whole time. That's why it's so hard. Thanks for making it easier.

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By the way what guitar is that?

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+Lisa Kech Suhr, a fancy pants strat

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+JustinGuitar Is 'Fancy Pants' a better or worse brand than Fender ;-)

[@easymathstrickz]

Really useful sir, so many doubts cleared.. thank you very much 🙏

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Great lesson mate!!!!! Thanks

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thank you, this has really helped me to understand guitar techniques for music GCSE :)

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[@345kobi]

Great teacher.

[@SpeesAce]

Bend - Mute - Release.. Oki got it :) Great stuff man!

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Thank you Mr. Justine, this lesson was fun and engaging. I just subscribed🙏🏾

[@richardcurrie3799]

Great lesson Justin. I'm just starting out with this. Thank you so much.

[@stevanlezaja4203]

Bending on acoustic is really, really, REALLY hard

[@alek-holdw2968]

Stevan Lezaja nylon strings?

[@stevanlezaja4203]

Wfsf Sfsfsd It si difficult, not impossiblr

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Not really bro, just practice, same as anything else, once learned it becomes easy and ad natural as breathing.

[@billyrushton4052]

I’m bending on acoustic, it is difficult at first but after about a week or two it’s become reasonably easy

[@Ana-ls8rh]

My high E and B strings broke when I attempted to bend them on my acoustic

[@willreidy5851]

Thanks Justin, this is great

[@SimonFreston]

Great video as always, never thought about using two fingers, def helps

[@JC-11111]

The issue I'm having is strings above the one I'm bending are ringing out when I let off the bend. And I can't figure out how to do it without those ringing out. So it doesn't sound right at all.

[@francois1048]

Same

[@starkayy5896]

Lower your string height

[@JC-11111]

@@starkayy5896 thank you for confirming what I finally figured out. It's still high because the nut slots are too high and I've yet to address it but swapping to a real Fender Bridge helped out tremendously for some reason. I can get the strings lower without fret buzz, which helped a lot. I also found that fingernails as short as possible helps a lot, too lol. I don't have long nails by any means but keeping them as short as possible works best, it seems

[@cagataysunal1130]

mute with your right hand. You are supposed to mute every other string anyway because they will resonate even if you don't hit them. Look up string muting techniques.

[@bellhops]

Justin covers this. You mute with your right hand - just watch the entire video and don’t take shortcuts

[@realdaneben6512]

learning by doing is the best practice

[@ryanj5032]

I love your videos!

[@Bigbadbassman]

This is a very clear and helpful lesson. Thanks!

[@Photoshopper2010]

15:04 I have such problem quite often, when my fingers go under the highest string, especially when I bend E or B string. Maybe, I'm wrong, but I think it's because of thin fingers

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