For video of this lesson, go to guitarworld.com/november2022
THIS MONTH, I’D like to discuss the beauty, and the importance, of string bending. String bending is truly a huge part of the guitar’s potential to be one of the most expressive instruments. Well-controlled string bending, and string bending with vibrato, will really make your melodies sing.
All examples here relate to begins with a 9th-position C#m barre chord, followed by the C# minor pentatonic scale in the same position, in ascending and descending form and with a little bit of scalar improvisation added.