Andy Timmons On Targeting Chord Tones With String Bends

Guitar World

MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons  THE BENDS, PART 4  String bending offers us guitarists a highly effective way to evoke a wide range of sounds and emotions from our instrument and emulate some of the qualities of the human voice, such as adding vibrato to a note, or seamlessly sliding, or gliding, from one pitch up or down to another, what is known as glissando. All of our favorite players use bending as an essential expressive tool when soloing. In this fourth installment examining this highly effective and useful technique, Andy Timmons plays through a 24-bar minor blues progression in the key of C# minor, touching on many different approaches to string bending.

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00:00everybody welcome back Andy Timmons here melodic muse for guitar world and we're

00:22gonna carry on with some c-sharp minor blues for those of you curious this track that I'm playing

00:27to is actually from my in the jam course that I did for true fire a while back really great sounding

00:32bunch of tracks that you can jam on with me on if you're curious to check that out please do

00:36but let's dig back in we're gonna turn on a bit more gain and play some blues here

00:57so

01:02so

01:08so

01:13starting the solo

01:41I'm building up

01:43this kind of building up to the pentatonic

01:48but as soon as I choose a bend it's clear that I'm thinking of tension you know it's on a c-sharp

01:57minor nine but I decide to bend from the from the third to the fourth

02:01that wants to go somewhere it needs to resolve

02:09so I would have been up to it maybe beyond it it's a major third

02:27so that might be a little difficult for some to get all the way up to that pitch but try

02:35there I'm just barely touching on it but I'm very accurate with the pitch

02:41continuing on I bend up to the scale like we worked on earlier I made use of that c-sharp minor dorian

03:02it's a nice way of kind of just building a little bit and getting playing some melodies

03:13and then I switched to the b string not only on the g string

03:18at the end I had to pull out one of my favorite bend licks from my buddy steve lucather end of rosanna

03:32that really wide interval

03:34but now of course that rosanna's in in g this is c-sharp but I'm on the on the on the b string

03:43bending from the e to g sharp

03:45you know probably coming from albert king at some point or hendrix

03:53but it's done in a trip d4

03:59I do the same bend from the b to the uh yeah what is it b to d sharp

04:07so on the first on the b string e to g sharp

04:12and then

04:15so as you can see there's so much potential with bending

04:30to add to your melodies you know I've hopefully given you lots of ideas of

04:34how to kind of bend through the chord changes how to

04:38uh you know apply tension and release from bending to certain notes releasing to certain notes

04:43so please uh you know hopefully you're inspired by this keep playing keep uh working at this bending

04:49and I'm gonna do the same thing and we'll see you next time

04:51you

04:56you

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