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And when you play them the way I show you, they will impress just about anyone who hears you play lead guitar.
What you’ll do is, take standard, familiar guitar string bends you may already know (regular guitar string bends, pre-bends and double stop guitar string bends)
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The best way to master these guitar string bending variations is to refine other elements of lead guitar playing that make all your guitar licks (string bending or not) sound great.
Wrap your fretting hand thumb around the neck of the guitar. Press the web between your thumb and index finger against the back of the guitar neck and then bend the guitar string.
Bend guitar stringsby rotating your forearm. Do NOT do guitar string bends with your fingers. If you do – it’s very hard to keep your string bending guitar licks in tune. (And out-of-tune guitar string bends makeyour lead guitar playing soundtotally awful!)
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The correct motion for guitar string bends should look and feel just like you are turning a doorknob. Get this part right and you'll have beautiful sounding guitar string bends when you play lead guitar.
Note: this doorknob motion isn’t just important for guitar string bends – it’s also key to a great sounding vibrato in your lead guitar playing.
Play a note you plan to bend up to as a regular (unbent) note. Then bend the guitar string from a note below. For example: let's say you have to bend a string in aguitar lick from fret 8 to fret 10. Play the 10th fret first (as an unbent note). This is the target note of your guitar string bend.
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Bonus tip: There is a name for this technique. It's called a re-articulation guitar string bend (where you play a note and then bend theguitar stringright into that same note).
Answer: Detune your guitar by a half step or a whole step (or more)... then practice all the guitar string bends you want. It won't be long before you start nailing string bends in all your guitar licks. Then you can tune your guitar back up to standard tuning and enjoy the improved sound of your lead guitar playing :)
Bonus tip: Slowing down your guitar string bends sounds most dramatic on ghost bends.That's because the release of a guitar string bend is its most dramatic part!
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As I said in the video at the top of the page… you cannot be afraid of letting the notes ring for a long time when you play licks with guitar string bends in them.
(Instead, imagine that you get a dollar for every second you can get your string to sustain when you do a guitar string bend.)
Your long notes (and long guitar string bends) won’t sound boring to your listeners, as long as you do what we’ve been talking about in this article.
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This means: rest your picking hand’s thumb on the lower (in pitch) strings to keep them quiet when you play lead guitar.
For example: say you are playing a guitar lick with a string bend on the 3rd string. Your thumb should cover strings 4 5 and 6 while you bend the 3rd guitar string.
As you change strings, the thumb should glide along and always cover the strings below the one you are playing. (This is true no matter which guitar string you are bending.)
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Now you know the best ways to bend strings for lead guitar. The next step is to transform the rest of your lead guitar playing (everything from your guitar technique, fretboard knowledge, creativity and music knowledge), so you can…
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About Tom Hess: Tom Hess is a guitar teacher, music career mentor and guitar teacher trainer. He teaches rock guitar lessons online to students from all over the world and conducts instructional live guitar training events attended by musicians from over 50 countries.I'm trying to bend up then back down on the G string (so it plays both notes, I'm not muting the bend back down to G) but I always catch my fingernail on the D string. So when I let the bend back down to G, my fingernail flicks the D string and makes a bit of a noise. How can I stop doing this? Is it a problem with how I am bending? Or do I just need to practice it more so I don't do it?
The trick here is to mute strings that are not supposed to sound to eliminate unwanted noise instead of trying to not touch them.
It is a very useful habit to mute strings all the time, not only while you bend. Try to develop it by combining the ways described above, and you will notice that you play much cleaner than before.
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One thing that will help its to keep the nails on that hand very short, but the technique I use if I must bend a string into or through another is to tilt it back enough that only the fingertip touches the other string, keeping the nail back out of the way.
For the lower string in your case, position your first (index) finger so that the tip of the finger is slightly touching the string you want to mute. In a good position, the tip of the finger should butt up against the string, not press it down.
In this position, the first finger can be simultaneously used to fret the string you are playing on, and mute all the higher strings by lightly laying across them (not enough to fret them). Any other lower strings can be palm muted.
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This can be a slightly tricky fret hand technique at first. To get comfortable with it, I recommend fretting a fret on the D or G string and strumming all 6 strings, listening for any notes other than the fretted one. From here, you can adjust until everything is correctly muted.
If you can achieve the bend without touching the D string, doing it very slowly, then you have a chance of practising that motion until you can do it at speed.
Doing it slowly, you can experiment with the angle of your fingers, etc. I'm sure your guitar tutor and/or book goes into detail about proper fretting hand position, so I won't repeat it here.
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If you find you can't avoid touching the D string even doing the bend very, very slowly, then you simply have to accept that this is a limitation of your instrument.
If you're bending half to one full note (combined with the right technique and angle approach), you can avoid flickering adjacent string most of the time.
It can be harder to achieve consistently on an electric guitar with a lower action, narrow neck, and/or strings with less tension; also when playing fast solo, bending one-and-a-half note, or vibrato while keeping the bend-up.
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To cope with that, I would press the string hard. With the right angle of approach, the finger nail on the G string would slide under (just slightly) the upper D string as it bends. Bending down G string, finger nail will slide off from under the D string without producing sound from it.
When doing fast solo though, often with vibrato at the top of the bend, I must finger-mute adjacent strings (e.g. your D string) as I attack the G string to avoid noise from D string consistently. Palm-mute would not be sufficient. Or else there's no way I can avoid making sound out of D string as I bend up on G and do vibrato. It wasn't tricky - I normally wrap my hand over the neck as I solo so my other finger are touching and effectively muting all string, single the one being attacked (the G string here).
There are two ways to bend a string. One where you pull down and one where you pull up. They both produce the same effect. Try both methods and see if either minimizes the interfecrence with the other strings you are trying to avoid interacting with.
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There is just no way to play the bend in tune without touching the strings above; at least not for me. Maybe I'll get better like some of the guitarists I see on Youtube, but until then I found what works is to mute the higher (toward my chin) strings with the part of my picking hand below the thumb. Using any other part of the right hand causes problems with my picking, but the meaty part of it just above the wrist seems to do the trick.
The problem was really bad as one of the first songs I learned was Peter Green's introduction
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