Andy Aledort - Getting The Most From Oblique Bends
In Deep by Andy Aledort
OBLIQUE WORKOUT
Guitar players are well aware that three of the most reliable techniques for creating expressive solos are string bending, vibrato and the combination of bending with vibrato. One exceptionally cool and useful bending technique is what’s known as an oblique bend. This is where you play two notes on two different strings and bend one while the other remains unbent.
OBLIQUE WORKOUT
Guitar players are well aware that three of the most reliable techniques for creating expressive solos are string bending, vibrato and the combination of bending with vibrato. One exceptionally cool and useful bending technique is what’s known as an oblique bend. This is where you play two notes on two different strings and bend one while the other remains unbent.
Transcript
00:00 Hey, I'm Andy Allidore.
00:17 In this edition of In Deep, we are going to begin our investigation of a technique known
00:21 as oblique bends.
00:23 An oblique bend is when you play more than one string at a time and you combine bent
00:28 strings with unbent strings.
00:30 And you'll hear oblique bends in just about every style of guitar music there is.
00:36 So the first thing I'll do is get into some basics of oblique bends and oblique bending
00:41 techniques and then I'll show you how to get into them, get out of them, and some great
00:46 ways to incorporate them into your solos.
00:48 Here we go.
00:50 So if this is the oblique bend, like in the key of A7, so we have the fourth D bent up
01:06 to E and a flat 7 on top.
01:13 So you could bend the D to E and hear that sound and have a release pull up or go all
01:28 the way down to the D. That one, I picked the D and then the G, so it wasn't simultaneous.
01:39 Like that.
01:52 Or you could pre-bend it and then release.
02:05 Another thing is you can, instead of playing them simultaneously, is pick one and then
02:14 the other.
02:25 What I did there was first I picked the B string four times and then two times.
02:39 And then I ended it with this.
02:44 Like.
02:47 And there's all kinds of different things you could do there.
03:00 Like you could do bigger.
03:04 Like an Albert King, almost a two-step.
03:08 With a 10 it's a little tough to normally.
03:14 [MUSIC]