The Bend That No One Seems To Teach You
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2021
- -Well except for now of course. I call it the "Compound Bend." ;) Thanks for watching.
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I learned this from the Hotel California solo 👌🏻
Ah damn! That’s a great example. I forgot about that one.
@@TheArtofGuitar Free For All was released in 1976 and Hotel California in 1977. So Don Felder copped it from Ted. 😀
@@TheArtofGuitar Here's a link to a video showing the example.. It is a great one. ruclips.net/video/FVsbvFkhzY4/видео.html&ab_channel=Rock%26RollHallofFame
So true, I also think it’s in Patients from GNR
Must be Joe's part iirc.
Dude, you have this way of clean and concise explanation of techniques that just clicks with me. It's awesome and really inspires me to try new things. Love the videos and lessons. 🤙
Almost 3 decades of teaching. Trimmed a lot of fat over the years. :) Thanks for the kind words my friend.
@@TheArtofGuitar It shows, excellent stuff.
Oh yes!
I've been watching guitar channels on YT since 2006, and your teaching is always enjoyable and super wise. Thank you!
Incredible trick! great lesson. Another bend I don't ever see talked about is floyd rose specific. I call it the compensating Unison bend. Example: you fret the 1st string a on the 5th fret and the 2nd string G at the 8th fret and bend the G up to an A to complet the Unison bend... but on a floating bridge, the 1st string A goes flat when you bend the G up. This is where you bend up ever so slightly on the 1st string as well to get the note to stay true.
It sounds difficult, but it's actually pretty straight forward to get the 2 string pitches to match and then continue to bend both the same amount until they are both at the targeted A note. This one technique is the roadblock for thousands of players that keeps them uninterested in a floating bridge system.
Or you can slightly push on the bridge with your wrist to prevent it coming forward (i.e. making the strings go flat.) It takes practice though to not push too much and make it then go sharp, lol, but I've seen people do it smoothly.
@@DeathBringer769 yea, i rarely touch the bar but use my wrist
I have been dabbling with this bend on and off for AGES, Mike - I never thought to use the pick to mute the E string. Thanks! I'm going to practice the hell out of that.
Great Video Mike. It would be cool to see a Zakk Wylde greatest technique video.
Lift a lot of weights. ;)
@@TheArtofGuitar and hydrate solely with beer
please never stop teaching/making guitar videos, you are my absolute favorite guitar youtuber and your energy/patience has made learning guitar a comfortable experience for me, no matter how long i play i can always learn more, and for that i thank you.
I've heard this but a little bit different at the end of the solo on "The Wicked End" by Avenged Sevenfold. The only difference is he leaves the note on the e string ringing the whole time. And the title is definitely right. Never seen anyone teach it before you.
Hotel California is a really iconic example of this technique. Kind of confused me for a while, just did the bend and then quickly did the pre-bend but of course that doesn’t sound accurate. Thanks for the lesson man, really helped me figure out this technique.
You beat me to it! Took me a while to get my fingers around this bend. Joe Walsh makes it look easy. I'll overlook the Liverpool thing if you're an Eagles fan....
Ah, don’t tell me you like Man City?
Slash uses it in his 1st solo in nightrain around the 2:08 mark. I learned the solo and that part always stumped me til now so thanks!!
Jimi Hendrix played these kind of bends in slow blues songs like Red House. And Steve Lukather uses it a lot, too! Ps: I bought the same pink guitar recently, because you used it in a previous video ;-) I love it!
Joe Walsh and David Gilmore do bends like this as well.
I'm sure there are more, but those are the two that come to mind immediately.
Gilmour
This is a really good little lesson. I do this quite often but I’m kinda inconsistent with it. Rolling your picking hands over to mute the high E is a great way to make sure it doesn’t ring. Thanks man!
I found your video today, and you explain stuff very very well… so many other teachers talk over your head. Not on purpose, but they are so used to doing it, it’s hard for them to explain it in an easy way. You have that gift dude ! Thanks
Thanks, teaching for almost 3 decades has changed how I explain things. Makes me look at things through different eyes.
i heard this bend the just the other day and i’ve been struggling to learn it, then this video comes out and teaches me, your a life saver man
Mama I'm coming home is how I learned how to do that lol but you are totally right. It's a technique that doesn't get talked about often .
This bend is used in the last solo by Steve Gaines in "You got that right" by Lynyrd Skynyrd also.
That’s where I learned it 🤷🏼♂️
You are so badass on guitar. It's like listening to a good friend, willing to share, talk guitar.
Great tutorial. Hendrix was fond of this bend. Learned it from a Paul Gilbert instruction dvd (Get out of my Yard) years back, but I think he taught it (or I naturally adapted it) by palming both strings with the bending finger and "rolling up" to the higher string as you pick it, which naturally dampens out the first bend as you release pressure off of it.
Also, for anyone struggling still: The guitars action must be very low. It's damn near impossible on a few of my guitars that have slightly higher action for slide playing... My finger goes under the 2nd string. Another side note, muting the other strings G, and D mostly. He uses his pointer finger (fretting hand) to keep them muted, but doesn't mention that he is.
Very fun technique that Hendrix used a lot, which is where I started trying to learn it.
@@chopholtz4950 you what?
I remember seeing a video with Paul Gilbert teaching this technique. It's probably still buried away somewhere.
Slash uses this technique in Nightrain. I'm totally struggle doing this. Thank you for the tips, it will helps a lot.
This is actually really interesting, I'mma have to add one of these bends to one of my solos some time, thx for the tutorial man 🤙
A technique very similar to this was demonstrated in a Guitar Player mag from the mid-late eighties in a Country and Western demo. Thanks for this!
I freaking love Audrey Hepburn. I need that guitar. Oh, and great lesson.
Yes.
do u know where he got the guitar?
@@justjosh4486 SL1X model
And here I thought it was Gidget
@@justjosh4486 it's just a pink Jackson with a boughten sticker my friend
Very awesome technic, I was always struggling how to do it, how to mute that E string. And here you come. Mike the Messiah. Thank you !!!
Quite possibly one of your best lessons Mike!!! Bravo....!!!
This made me happy. I'm definitely not a great guitarist, but I've been playing for 23 years. And somehow I knew what this bend was going to be before I watched the video 😆 funny what sort of stuff you pick up over time. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the GREAT vid - I've always wondered about this bend but have never been able to figure it out. And that is a BEAUTIFUL Jackson, btw!
One of the most effective lessons I learned from Dimond Darrell. Concentrate on one finger on one fret bend that one note and make it sing while listening to the sound of the pick attack. It cleaned up my playing over night back 30 years ago. Lately I have been playing big band groves on a cheep classical. It's hilarious and great for the soul.
Cool man you definitely don't see or hear this too much explained. It's funny because I learned to do this by not using a pick playing. I started out playing blues a lot and with no pick and learned a lot of muting techniques that way. So this was a natural way to play it for years. Then later when I switched styles and genres. I felt a little lost till like you, I figured it out finally using the pick to mute the first string. Underrated bend!
In fact, this was so useful and came at a good time, that I'm now a subscriber!
I’ve never even thought of this concept but you explained it perfectly. Thank you!
I played around with this and found that it’s easier for me to do the mute with the middle finger on my picking hand. I use a Jazz III XL pick and really pinch down on it so that there’s not much tip sticking out. This makes it harder to get it through the B string and then get the pick stopped right on the E string. I sometimes miss the E or often get a clanking sound when the pick hits the E. Using my middle finger seems more natural to me and it works every time.
I mute it that way too. Works like a charm, no finger roll required.
This technique is also used in the beginning of Make It Wit Chu's solo by Queens of the Stone Age.
THANKS. I've been searching for this for YEARS.
Hendrix does this and Josh Homme. There's a video on RUclips of Josh Homme talking about this exact technique.
I personally do this by using a different finger on each string, as opposed to rolling the finger onto the string above.
Excellent! I had picked this up from the same Nugent song. Thanks for sharing and paying it forward.
Great lesson brother! I had to learn how to do a double bend recently to play with my cover band, I will learn this technique to add an extra flavour for it!
not gonna lie....been chasing this for years ....you sir deserve a beer....liked and sub'ed!
Genius cause I for sure was wondering how to get this sound. Thanks Mike!
"Mama" is one of my all time fave solos. Goosebumps still every single time.
I feel that Nugent is underrated in his techniques. The intro to Stranglehold is something that I still can't play properly. It's a confusing rhythm/picking pattern. See if you can figure that one out!
oh boy he is not only way under rated many hate him simply cuz he is interested in healthy self sustaining freedom and way of living... go figger, but yea, Ted will tell you most of his stuff is just altered of what he heard or embellished, cat scratch is something of a beatles rip off day tripper if that makes sense, yup, saw him explain it..
but Ted was way off the charts go listen to his first hit journey to the center of the mind, WAY ahead of its time for what it is or was... hale tedds rig was way overjoyed as well.. a Gibson Byrdland? a Jazz guitar to the meanest degree available, but he not only made it work he incorporated it into the blistering wall of sounds we all know and love...
Teds skills are not only unique they are unsurpassed on so many levels, he is STILL doing it for one, and, if you go back and listen to some of his mid 80's stuff it gets very technical, bti as ted says it, technical is not that bombastic beat of pure rock and roll we have all become accustomed to, technical is welp, 80's hair or whatever.. bu he did it, prolly just to say "yea been there done that" lol
go listen to penetrator, listen good, he unleashes and fair amount of technical wizardry and speed.. Ut is no slow poke, why someo his riffs are hard to follow cuz his hand speed is so spot on and quick he often plays multiple beats/timings on different strings, a lot like SRV in that respect, those off beat write riffs are tough until you spend time on them, don't give up, listen, repat, listen rep[eat till you get that feel... its all feel, and it will come, the left hand has to jive with the right hand and when they mesh, its all there...
a lot of those riffs seem so difficult cuz they are so strange, and not how we first learned so they seem odd, Ted learned in that style, many of s didn't,old habits are hard to break and when we get into those rhythms and what not we tend to fake it cuz we cant do it right away.. break it down to its most basic, slow it down I found works well till you have all the part down,t hen slowly speed it up till it's comfy, you'll get it, just a matter of reprogramming and getting comfortable with it..
I suggest working off a live version, so yo are not trying to play an overdub or something, stranglehold has some of that in the intro, listen to ted play it live, there is a good version he does on campfire where he is just goofing off, but listen to that, you can see what he is doing and clearly hear it, then you will go oh wait, that's it, the studio is adding stuff, its not simple but once you hear it this way you will go OK yea I got this..
I avoided that song for decades cuz I could never get it to sound like studio, then I heard and saw him do it live and went wait I am doing it right, maybe work on my smoothness but I am doing it right, the studio version is dubbed parts over it to fill it up... get 2 guitars to do it or use one of those octaver units, and just adjust it to the same pitch but it will sound like 2 guitars and you'll sound so close.. also be sure to put some delay on it and some reverb, a little bit of flanger, of course i believe this is recorded in stereo as well, anything they could do to fatten it up, his producer was unreal..
Uncle Ted is underrated by a lot of people and Zakk Wylde is too, people get hung up on his pinch harmonics but he can play brilliantly.
There's a live clip of Hibernation that is just incredible.. I absolutely don't care for the man but he's got some great tracks. He's a good example of separating the art from the artist. Not that he's a monster or anything.
The entire reason people don't talk about Nugent's playing is because by opening his mouth and spewing bullshit, people just know him as a lunatic instead of a competent and innovative guitar player. It's his own fault.
Nugent is underrated in general
This was great to learn! I was also in Jassy's livestream today like always. Nice trick and guitar!
Dude could have milked this into a 10 minute video, but he didn't and that's why he's the best in yt
That's great! When I listen to guitar solos, I'm always practicing in my head. Like you, I use my imagination to figure out what they're doing. But, this one escaped me!
I'll practice this one till I get it, thanks!
Never have this any thought whatsoever! As always, great content!!
I’m not sure if you recall this considering all of the videos that you’ve done, but you planted the seed for this more advanced technique early on in a video on the website. You demonstrated the 'rest stroke' in the very first Spider Exercise EPA in the Apprentice level. You mentioned that it was important to be able to both ‘free pick’ and do the ‘rest pick’ when doing the exercise, and that the ‘rest pick’ would come in handy in the future. Well, you were gosh darn right about that…. especially if you want to play these Ted Nugent or Zakk Wylde solos accurately!!!
By the way, I’m about to start into the Practioner level videos and am glad that I spent the time to go through your Apprentice level despite already being an experienced bedroom/basement player. The ‘rest stroke’ is just one of the things/techniques that I learned in the beginner level that I didn’t know/do before. I won’t list the other things here, but will say that you are straight up, one good teacher! I wish we had the technology and your website back in the 90’s when I was struggling to learn the simplest of things (one of the perils of being self-taught). I wouldn’t have stagnated, got bored with it, and gave up playing for so many years.
I don't know if I got bored with it , but I had to stop playing due to just life forcing me first to not be able to play often. Then I had to sell practically everything I had of any value which included the best playing guitar I ever had, a Casio keyboard that I could play just a little in the key of F (I just played the first position of the minor pentatonic starting at the F on the first fret of the low E and mimicked it on the keyboard. Unlike guitar you change key and the patterns change too right? So I could only play in F 😂)
So after probably 12 yrs (once in a blue moon there'd be someone with a guitar around but you get rusty right? Lose your chops.) I bought a Fender Squier Affinity SSS and Fender Mustang LT25 modeling amp.
I thought it would be set-up right outta the box, but the intonation was off. I fixed it with a screwdriver but I had a back surgery and I'm recovering in a rehab hospital. Living in a nursing home. So I'm unable to walk right now. I play from bed but it's super tricky. I have to sit on pillows and lean back some against the top of the bed (adjustable so it's upright but my posture isn't perfect.)
The Affinity is a good instrument but it has the potential; with a proper setup and maybe a couple mods like locking tuning machines and a pickup swap. Right now it wants to fight me 😂
I'm already dealing with enough so it's tough to get enthused about playing. Even now I have to get the nursing assistant to help me get set-up and when done put it back.
If I get it in better playing position I'll be more apt to get my fire back. That thing that caused me to practice sometimes 10 hrs a day back at the start ya know?
I do think I'm learning a lot from RUclips (I'm self taught, learned at 15 in 86 or so.) , I understood this well, he's good and clear. My guitar is sitting in the gig bag but when I pick it up I'll be able to practice that.
I've never seen anyone describe the bend up/switch string down thing and talk about the pick rest. I can see it works.
Amongst other things I'm sponging up things I never learned and once I can get into a routine I'll have learned quite alot.
I must subscribe to 15 guitar related sites 😂
I've heard it referred to as RUclips University 😂
Man I wonder what I'd have accomplished with all the technology we have now, back then.
I mean Hendrix and Page learned without RUclips right?
Still kids starting out from tuning to backing tracks, to of course tutorials have such an awesome way to progress faster.
If you have a question, RUclips invariably has an answer.
I had "The guitar handbook" and friends who played. Friends of my older brother who REALLY played, and magazines etc..
Technology has it's downsides like crappy autotuned talentless "artists 😂" but it's definitely got this tremendous upside right?
My Fender Mustang LT25 modeling amp is just a $125.00 practice amp but man! It's got this digital screen and knobs and buttons to dial in 30 preset effects. Everything is tweakable so reverb, delay, gain, and chorus on each individual effect can be adjusted. Then you can save em! It's got clean (which normally I'd turn the volume on the guitar way down to play something that's supposed to be acoustic and just play without distortion)
and it's got a simulated acoustic effect that's really impressive.
Nothing like it existed when I started in the 80s right?
Inexpensive and badass for a practice amp. You can even plug it in , go online for software updates. I paid as much for a little Park by Marshall simulated tube amp when I bought my first electric. It had great tone but it cost $110.00 back then and was the least expensive they had at the shop.
I'm rambling on , sorry but I had this complicated week and everything just worked out. Plus I just got outta pain having taken some medicine. Gives you a buzz 😂
I'm sure I'll look at the amount I wrote and say "Damn, it's this wall of text! I could have been doing something productive"
What's that David Bowie lyric from Starman. "Had to phone someone so I picked on you ooh ooh" 😂
Sorry for pickin' on ya man!!
I hope you become the musician you're capable of becoming man! I'm sure you're good and want to reach your full potential like we all do. Neverending journey. I do love the guitar. Always have.
You're on the right track! This guy is a great player, and a uniquely clear and succinct teacher. He's got a knack for it I think.
You couldn't do better, that's for sure! Good luck man!
I love the color of that guitar!!!! Great lesson, Mike. 👍
Marty Friedman uses this on the Foreclosure of a Dream solo. And I have always had many problems playing it so many thanks for the video! 👍🏻
When you said about this kind of bend, I imagined, that you just need to bend 2 notes, switch next and kill previous. When I saw, your explanation, I started to feel so proud of myself XD
Really solid video... that is an interesting lesson on how to dampen the 1st string when bringing out the 2nd one.
Thanks for sharing this interesting technique.
Great short lesson...Free for All is one of my favorite songs...
Wow! Love it! I've heard it before but just never thought about it or played it. Thanks for sharing this:)
I think for as many as has watched this, we might hear some people jamming this here coming up. Very informative. Busts one out of a rut creating again.
I love that there's examples you can pick across the last 30, maybe even 40 years!
YES! Thank you for this lesson!
Great lesson 👍 always loved both of those licks! 😎🎸
hey i remember learning that lick too! Awesome video and cool guitar!
I love this technique as well and I'm hearing it done a lot more in RUclips videos with a bunch of really great players and I myself have been struggling with controlling the noise and muting and not getting both strings to sound when you don't want them to... particularly with a higher gain tone... Strangely enough it never occurred to me to use my pick to mute the 1st string after sounding the 2nd note... Cool video thanks for the lesson
Aw That Guitar looks good. Great Video and such a cool lesson!
Where were you when I was a kid?! lol! Good work as usual. ❤️
Superb lesson.
Man that's some good stuff. I love this stuff buy guys like Zakk and Ted. Initially it sounds simple but then when you try to do the same, you realize there's so much going on and why these guys are real guitar gods.
Great video Mike. Loving that Jackson.
Finally! Someone talking about this! One of my favorite techniques. I play alot of blues and Zakk wyldes style is easily one of the funnest to let loose in.
Omg this video just taught me why I could never get the end of the solo right on Wynonna Judd's cover of Burning Love
I got taught this in college years ago, a wee hendrixism. They sound so good when you get ‘em down.
Oh my goodness I was trying to do this just the other day! Just subbed btw :)
Thanks for the lesson and explanation!! Excellent!!! I've seen Pete Thorn use this technique a lot and was wondering how it is done!
Thank you so much for this lesson
I have to give credit where credit is due - very good sir. I have a new technique to remember to try now. I used to play this song in an Ozzy Tribute band a while back. I can't remember what I did as I didn't put all this insight into it but it sounded Ok when I did it so I must have just jumped to that other string really quick. But I forgot all about it so thank you. Man, I want to say I can't believe you like Ultimate Sin more than Diary and Blizzard but actually that's understandable. I saw Ozzy on that tour - it was my second concert and Metallica opened with Cliff Burton. A lot of people I know have said they didn't like that record but it definitely has a place in my heart. The only problem with Jake I thought was his guitar tone - I personally felt he totally smoked Zakk as a songwriter and soloist - all due respect to Zack of course - but his tone I thought diminished the quality of the songs. Bark has some unreal lost gems as well - especially Waiting for Darkness. Nice Breakfast at Tiffany's guitar - I didn't notice that before.
Hell yeah. Handy tip bro. Love that guitar too. 😃👍🏻
Dude, you have earned my respect for the Audrey sticker. That lady was the definition of beauty. That lady was class.
Oooo, THIS bend is pure 80s awesomeness!!
My bend trick is:
Either G or B string, you choose.....
Let's say 7th fret. Pinch harmonic, bend it up, while it's still ringing, slide up about 3 or 4 frets and bring it back down.
Gonna hafta try that
Pink color of a good guitar, and how to learn an amazing guitar, thank for share my dear friend
That pick mute is genius
This is used in the end of the Trooper solo, however I think its in the first position of the minor pentatonic, so I'm a bit confused as to how he did the prebend on the G string when its 1 fret below the B. Do you think he instead quickly jumps to the 15th fret on the high e and does it there?
Nevermind, relistened, he does a prebend on the same string a few frets behind. Good video anyways.
Really cool, dude! Thanks for the tip.
Wish I had you as my first guitar teacher. Cheers
They all learned it from Jimi Hendrix.
Great Video! Great A.H. decal!
That is a really great lick.
ahh, i knew how to do this but not clean, thats a great tip to use the pick to mute, i never thought of that!
WOAAHHH thats actually the lesson i needed not on my fretboard but on my whammy bar.. 1000 THANKS! finally i found the secret note i been looking for years, and im not sharing my secret ;)
Thanks... That's easy to remember, I'm going to add it to my short list of licks!
I think Eric Johnson does this for a little fill in Manhattan. I was having a hard time nailing it, thanks for the explanation!
Excellent explanation! I picked up on Joe Walsh doing this.
Thanks, I was stuck at the nightrain solo, it uses this one too.
Great lesson!
never even thought of pick muting! this will be useful for more than just this bend
The first solo in 'when the wild wind blows' by iron maiden has this same technique. Very cool sounding but could never figure how it was pulled off.. Except it's on the 14th and 15th frets on the G and B string respectively
Great lesson
Thanks! Great technique! Sweet Jackson btw.
great breakdown
Incredible video! if my rock and roll knowledge serves me right, I actually believe that they (Slash, Wylde, Ted) might have got it from Hendrix. I'm almost certain it's either in red house, killing floor (live at Monterey) or fire
I came upon this type of bend accidently noodling around! It's a good one