PART 10 LEFT-HAND TECHNIQUES: STRING BENDING
It’s time to talk about one of the most common elements of blues playing – string bending. You’ve seen it from BB King to Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan to Gilmour. Every one of our blues heroes, at some point, pushes those strings to the sky and makes them scream. String bending takes practice and patience to master. The initial stages will be tough on your fingertips, but as you progress, this will become easier. SRV supposedly used to repair his torn fingertips with Super Glue mid-gig – the perils of bending on a Strat strung with 0.013s!
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It’s best-practice to bend with your
