In basic scale shapes, what notes can you bend? When you listen to the rock greats and hear all those soulful bends, what are you hearing? Probably a lot more than that basic third string bend some players never get very far past.

In this video we'll look at three foundational types of single-string bends, across the top three strings, in basic 6th string and 5th string root position (E & A shapes, next video will cover CG&D shapes, along with some open string bends including lower strings). As always, examples are shown up close, from the player view. This video uses over 20 different song examples:

Sunshine Of Your Love
No One Like You
Light My Fire
Voodoo Child
Heartbreaker
Long Time
Red House
Free Bird
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Lights
Comfortably Numb
Still Got The Blues
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Can’t Buy Me Love
Mississippi Queen
Crossroads
Stairway To Heaven
All Along The Watchtower
Come Together
No Time
Paranoid
Iron Man

This is part 1, covering single-string bends. Future video will cover multi-string bend shapes, like oblique bends and other licks that use a bend along with other strings. You can see those bends, and many more lick and riff shapes, along with chord and scale shapes, in my free web app "The Building Blocks Of Rock", available here:

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It's just a web page, all you have to do is open it and start clicking to scroll through the 400+ shapes. Nothing to download, and you don't need to sign up for anything.

Please leave any comments or questions. I do read them all!

0:00 intro
0:13 what's in this video
1:13 E shape/6th string root
1:21 3rd string bends (E shape)
3:11 2nd string bends (E shape)
5:57 1st string bends (E shape)
6:52 some overlooked bends
10:52 A shape/5th string root
11:35 2nd string bends (A shape)
14:18 1st string bends (A shape)
15:41 3rd string bends (A shape)
17:19 outro

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