Bends in Rhythm Playing

Welcome to the Bends in Rhythm Playing lesson !

This time we'll go through a few patterns for bends being used in a rhythm guitar playing. Those patterns are mostly taken from a classic rock, but some of modern players do use them within more modern guitar playing as well. Besides typical bend execution, for classic rock, the "1/4 wholestep bend ornament" was probably the most common one. The idea is to start the bend but break it, before it reaches the pitch of next note/half-step. To get some more info, go through the comments below each part.


Gear used (in order of connection chain placement):

1. SX SST57 guitar (JB Junior bridge pickup)
2. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 40%)
3. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
- Channel - blue
- Input 50%
- Gain 70%
- Pre EQ - brighter
- Bass 50%
- Middle 40%
- Treble 50%
- Contour 100%
6. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
7. Impulse - Catharsis s-preshigh

Tuning - Standard E

Backing track progression:

4/4
||: Am | Am | Am | Am G :||

D | D | D | D c |

Am | Am | Am | Am G |

F | F | E | E | D | D | D | C G/B |

F | F | E | E | D | D | C | G/B |

||: Am | Am | Am | Am | Am :||

D | D | D | D | E | E | E | E9#||







Tempo: Main song tempo is 170 bpm. There are backing tracks available at 70, 100, 130, 150 and 170 bpm.

Time signature: 4/4

Scales used in this lesson:

A-minor




A-harmonic minor