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.
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