Guitar Lessons: Bending Notes Guitar Tab

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The most widely used form of bending notes is to place three fingers down 
on consecutive frets and bend the note one whole step up from the pitch you 
started on. You should have a good grip on this technique before you read on.

One thing you should always be conscious of when bending a note is your intonation. 
Make sure that the note you’re going for is the one you hit. Here are some things 
to try:

1) Hit a note and bend one fret from the note you’re starting on (for example, 
hit a G and bend to a G#)

2) Hit a note and bend three frets higher than the note you’re starting from 
(hit a G and bend to A#)

3) Hit a note and bend four frets higher than the note you’re starting from 
(hit a G and bend to B)

4) Try bending five, even six, frets if possible.

5) This is an “ascending bending” technique. You hit a note, bend it two frets, 
bring it down to its original position and slide your finger up the neck to 
the next scale tone. After that note sounds, stretch two (or three) frets 
to the next scale tone, release to the original note, slide and repeat this 
until you can’t get any higher on the neck.

The following is an example of blues in the key of A:

Hit G (8th fret) with your third finger. Bend the note to A; return it to G; 
slide up to A with your third finger; then stretch the A to a C. Return the note 
to A; slide to the C; then bend to a D. Return the note to C, slide to the D and 
bend to E. Keep this process going until you’re stretching from an A to a B 
on the 22nd fret. This whole action takes place with only one pick attack. 
It’s all slides and bends.

6) Start with a note that is already bent, attack it and return to the flat 
position. For example, on the B string, bend to a B from an A (10th position). 
Strike the note and return it to A. Do this seven times in a row on different 
notes as fast and as cleanly as possible and you’ll have a nice effect.

7) Bend a note, hold it with your other available fingers, play other notes 
on other strings. For example, on the G string, stretch from an F# to a G# (9th 
position). While holding that note and letting it ring out, play with your 
fourth finger, E on the E string (12th fret). Then play with your first finger 
C# on the E string (9th fret). Then with your fourth finger, play B on the B 
string (12th fret). All this time, you’re still holding the G# that is bent 
from the F# with your third finger. It may sound complicated, but take it 
slowly.

If you sit and concentrate on nothing but bending, you will come up with your 
own fun variations.


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