00:00Hey everybody, welcome back.
00:19Andy Timmons here, melodic muse for Guitar World, and we're going to carry on with some
00:23C-sharp minor blues.
00:25For those of you curious, this track that I'm playing to is actually from my In The
00:28Jam course that I did for True Fire a while back.
00:31Really great sounding bunch of tracks that you can jam on with me on, if you're curious
00:35to check that out, please do.
00:36But let's dig back in, we're going to turn on a bit more gain and play some blues here.
01:28Starting the solo, I'm building up to the pentatonic, but as soon as I choose a bend,
01:54it's clear that I'm thinking of tension.
01:56You know, it's on a C-sharp minor 9, but I decide to bend from the 3rd to the 4th.
02:07That wants to go somewhere, it needs to resolve.
02:21I would have been up to it, maybe beyond it, it's a major 3rd, so that might be a little
02:32difficult for some to get all the way up to that pitch, but try.
02:38Here I'm just barely touching on it, but I'm very accurate with the pitch.
02:56Continuing on, I bend up to the scale like we worked on earlier, I made use of that C-sharp
03:01minor Dorian.
03:05It's a nice way of building a little bit and playing some melodies.
03:17I switch to the B-string, not only on the G-string.
03:27At the end, I had to pull out one of my favorite bend licks from my buddy Steve Lukather, End
03:32of Rosanna.
03:33That really wide interval, but now of course that Rosanna's in G, this is C-sharp, but
03:41I'm on the B-string, bending from the E to G-sharp, you know, probably coming from Albert
03:52King at some point, or Hendrix, but it's done in a triptych for, and I do the same
04:04bend from the B to the, yeah, what is it, B to D-sharp, so first on the B-string, E
04:11to G-sharp, and then.
04:27So as you can see, there's so much potential with bending to add to your melodies.
04:32I've hopefully given you lots of ideas of how to kind of bend through the chord changes,
04:37how to, you know, apply tension and release from bending to certain notes, releasing to
04:42certain notes, so please, you know, hopefully you're inspired by this, keep playing, keep
04:48working at this bending, and I'm going to do the same thing, and we'll see you next
04:51time.
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