Blues Bending Lesson

Muris Varajic

Blues Bending Lesson

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- Mate Nagy31st October 2010
  Very inspiring and useful lesson . . .
- thefireball22nd June 2010
  At first I thought I wouldn't like this since I'm not a blues person, but I was wrong! I loved that! Especially the slide and bend at 0:10.
- Muris Varajic24th October 2008
  It's from US actually.
- J.E.24th October 2008
  That pick must be from space!
- Carlos Carrillo5th March 2008
  hey!!!!!!!!!
  
  excellent!!!
  
  nice job
- Muris Varajic19th January 2008
  Hi Udo and greetings as well
  
  Sorry to hear about your fingers but that means you're practicing a lot and that's good!!
  I don't use real amp for lessons but Korg Pandora PX4D processor.
  Check it out HERE.
- EGMONT 196319th January 2008
  hi muris
  gretings from belgium
  
  help help ...... my fingers
  I am practicing 3 hours bendings
  very good lesson
  udo
  which ampli you play ????
- King_Dime16th September 2007
  Great Stuff!
- Muris Varajic9th September 2007
  Thanks!!
  More blues still to come,for sure
- castudillo9th September 2007
  nice class!!! I love blues...Im going to practice it
  Thank's muris... Very nice sound
- adam130220th August 2007
  nice love it. Definitely learning this
- Muris Varajic9th August 2007
  My pick is lightning cause it's The Light Pick
  And yeah,this is Musicman Axis,a model build for Eddie,latter on he went on Peavey...
  Thanks for kind words,glad you like lesson!!!
- ibanez rocker9th August 2007
  also is that an eddie van halen guitar because my uncle has one just like it with the same body style,pickups, and the fret board but his is just a little bit lighter than yours.
- ibanez rocker9th August 2007
  hey muris nice lesson but why does your pick light up?
- Muris Varajic31st July 2007
  Thanks for this kind comment Atomix!
  As I said before,I'm using small Korg Pandora straight into audio card.
- atomix133731st July 2007
  This is awesome man, you make these riffs sound sweet, and your distortion whenever you pick, makes your notes sound 'explosive'. Dunno how you do it man but both your tone and this lesson is FANTASTIC.
- Muris Varajic30th July 2007
  Anytime,pleasure is all mine!
  Just let me know if you have any question please.
  Cheers
- Argieblues30th July 2007
  An old aged student here (from Argentina) thanking for this great lesson. Just needing to "catch the spirit" (timing, feeling, etc).
  
  Thanks again
- Muris Varajic18th July 2007
  That's probably best thing if you want to have much power in vibrato while bending...
  But you find your position,the best that fits you...this is just way how I do it.
- dk218th July 2007
  great lesson muris:)
  
  but when you use like vibrato is it necessary to have your like wrapped around the neck?
- Muris Varajic16th July 2007
  Yes Sanders4617, there are many ways to mute while bending,palm muting is one of them of course.
  For long duration bends to mute unwanted strings I'm also using right hand fingers.
  Per example,if bend is on B string I'm touching G string with middle finger and high E with ring finger.
  Just an idea,try as many as you can,
  and mute the world!!
- sanders461716th July 2007
  On those bends.. To get that technique down, which is called scraping I believe, you will need to learn how to mute. It takes a while to get good at it. Different people have different ways of doing it, but the way I figured out how to do it was to mute the strings I didn't want to sound with my right hand. So I would use the side of my hand to sort of mute the strings until I got to the string that was to be fretted and then I would let off. That may be the harder way to do it, I am not sure. Just give it time though.
- Drew14th July 2007
  Love that backing track
- Gustavo14th July 2007
  awsome!!!!
  
  i need this XD thanks a lot
- Muris Varajic14th July 2007
  @E-S-J
  Best scale to get bluesy vibe is probably pentatonic.In this lesson I used mixolydian mode and major scale as well,regarding to chord progression.Every key is fine tho..
  First try with pentatonic and keys like A,E,G etc.
  Latter on when you find yourself good with these,add scales I mentioned above and in different keys.
  Let me know when you notice any progress!!
- Muris Varajic14th July 2007
  QUOTE (eyal @ Jul 14 2007, 08:28 AM)
  Muris. well done.
  the sound is amazing i would like to know your pickups, and your effect?
  
  Thanks!!
  Pickups are DiMarzio customs and Korg Pandora PX4D as a processor.
- Rockwouldbe14th July 2007
  Muris. well done.
  the sound is amazing i would like to know your pickups, and your effect?
- Eat-Sleep-andJam14th July 2007
  What are some good bluesy keys and scales and what not?
  
  -John
- SDMF7514th July 2007
  WoW! This is one of my favorite lessons! Great Job Muris!
- Dashooter14th July 2007
  wow this lesson is tougher than I thought, so weird bending techniques in there.
- Robin14th July 2007
  Sweeeet! Really great!
- SLASH9113th July 2007
  Very catchy! I love it
- Rvddps13th July 2007
  That was quite amazing, your bends are excellent!
- Kai Muehlenbruch13th July 2007
  Muris´s got da blues! Nice tone
- stratman3313th July 2007
  I love these kind of bends...
- DRBguitar0913th July 2007
  awesome lesson muris just what i ws looking for
- Muris Varajic13th July 2007
  Thanks for kind comments guys,
  appreciate it a lot!!
  
  @Dash...I usually put index finger on string which is bended,to have stronger grip.
  But it does mute strings a lot when I'm not bending.
  Try it with and without this technique but always do your best to mute unwanted sounds.
  If you have more questions,please!
- coxy8113th July 2007
  Awesome!! Love the bluesy bends.........
- The Uncreator13th July 2007
  the point i think here is for you to observe on what his hand is doing, try to replicate that, see if it leads to you discovering what works for you and whatnot.
  
  Anyway, great lesson! i love the solo, great melody and feel to it, and it appears as if your pick is glowing.
- Dashooter13th July 2007
  ok, is there an explanation somewhere how to do this technique?
- ace_frehely13th July 2007
  awsome
- Andrew Cockburn13th July 2007
  @Dashooter
  
  I actually picked this up from Pavel a few months ago. WHen playing you should ALWAYS be thinking about muting - its one of the reasons that our instructors have such a clean sound. This is a great way of guarding against unintentional string hits - you could thnk of it as insurance. You might not need it all the time but its good to have it there if you do need it !
- GroovinMastiff13th July 2007
  I love your tone, very warm and creamy sounding. Hope to get started on this one soon.
- Dashooter13th July 2007
  I have one question. I noticed a lot of teachers on this site, when they bend, use the pointer finger to mute the strings and also sometimes when they apply vibrato. Is this really necissary? Ive seen some players not use this technique (I don't)and still sound ground. Although I do sometimes get unwanted string noise during bends. Would you recommend I switch to that technique.
- shredmandan13th July 2007
  Really good lesson Muris
  I have actually been practicing my bending and this will be great to add in thanks
- blindwillie13th July 2007
  Yummie! I know what to do this weekend now!
- Pavel13th July 2007
  Sounds really tasty! Good job Muris!
- mattacuk13th July 2007
  Get down! That is AWSOME dude!

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- Tags: Phrasing, Pre bends, Whole tone bend, Whole bend, Semi tone bend, Bending types, Vibrato, Phrasing, Phrases, Blues licks, D minor, D major, D mixolydian, Slow blues
If you haven't played it a lot,
now is the great time for it.
Bending!!
In this lesson I'll try to show you many of them:
semi ton,whole tone,whole and semi,2 whole tones,pre-bends etc.
Lesson has blues chord progression and feel as well.
So put new strings on your guitar and check it out!

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