Bend Like a Pro

Common Techniques and Licks to Help You Master String Bending

So you've started learning how to bend strings on your guitar, and now you want to know how to play all those cool licks from your favorite songs?

This lesson covers a few common advanced bend techniques, and then shows you how the greatest guitarists of all time incorporate them into their solos and licks.

Topics covered are:

  • Releasing Bends

  • Double & triple stop bends

  • Unison bends

  • Common tricks like the "bend release pull" and more

We will also learn licks from guitarists such as:

  • Chuck Berry

  • Eddie Van Halen

  • Angus Young

  • Jimi Hendrix

  • Joe Walsh and more

If you are new to bends I would suggest watching my intro to bends video which can be found here: INTRO TO BENDS

You can find a PDF with tabs for all the licks and techniques covered in this video here: BEND LICKS PDF

Many of the licks in this video are also based off of the PENTATONIC SCALE. If you want an in depth lesson series on that then you can find some detailed videos I produced on the topic here: PENTATONIC LESSON SERIES

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Technique Check: Bends