Chords for Guthrie Govan String Bending Techniques Guitar Lesson - Licklibrary

Hi, this is Guthrie Govan here
_ Throwing a couple of tips at you with regard to string bending which is one of the most fun things you can do on a
Guitar it's a great way of taunting the piano players of the world.
They can't bend strings
We can we have an extra [F] layer of expression in our playing and in order to make the most of it
I think it's good to explore just what you can do with basic string bending technique
_ So what I'm going to suggest here is for any scale shape, you know
_ Explore every possible bend _
[F#] so if for instance you're playing blues in e and
[F]
It's a guilty pleasure.
We're all guilty of from time to [E] time _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You might try
instead of just using
[G#] _ _ [A] _ _
[G#] Ben's everyone knows and loves you might assume that every single fit
position sorry every single finger within that position _ _
[F#] Has a bend assigned to it and your goal would be to [Fm] teach yourself how much [F#] each correct bend hurts
So let's start here with the lowest [E] note
_ _ Now [G#m] if you're going to start bending that note up, you shouldn't really stop until it reaches the [E] next note in the scale
[G] _
_ _ _ _ Similarly this note if you want to bend it up
You [G#m] keep going until it sounds like the next note [F#m] up in the scale this one [G]
[A] and _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
so on
_ So after a few possible misfires you should start to develop a memory for how much each bend hurts and
roughly what it looks like and feels like
_ [F#] You'll note [B] there
_ [G] When I'm bending the [Fm] first finger notes in the scale [G#] rather than ripping off my first fingertip being a martyr in the name of blues
I'm sneaking down and using [A] those two fingers
[E] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] Just
Just because my fingers will last longer that way.
I don't think anyone would [E] really thank me for
[F] Doing it just with my first [N] finger.
So use whatever works as many fingers as you like
Really the idea is to get them all sounding as in tune as possible
_ _ Then you could apply the same thing to a seven note scale one of the [G#] diatonic scales maybe a mode of a major scale I
Don't know.
How [Bm] about
B Dorian [B] just for the fun of it
[B] _ _ _ so for that [C#] and
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] _
_ [G#] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [F] so [G#m] on and if you really want to test your memory a good thing to do is to fire up a backing [B] track or something in
the appropriate [D] key and
[G#] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ Then try and play all those bends in reverse
So you start with the bent pitch and then let it down and see if it still sounds good
[Am] _
_ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C#] _
_ [B] _ _ _ [F#] Okay, and if you really want to have some fun, you could try that with the chromatic scale
Because the intervals are smaller there the chromatic [F] scale, of course, it's just this one
[N] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ Perhaps best known as a miserable picking exercise.
[C] It's also the
[B] _ _ _ [F#] Flight of the [C#] bumblebee scale, it's just a
_ [A] The one with every note in it
Because the jumps there are only a semitone in width
You should be able to bend to more than one different pitch per fret so you could try maybe
[D#] _ _ [F#] _
_ [F] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [N]
All right
So if you experiment with some of that stuff, it should open up some new bending possibilities in your playing
So that you feel like you've got more [F] options for any given note.
You may find yourself having landed on
_ Happy bending don't injure yourselves.
Bye for now _ _ _ _ _ _
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