00:00everybody welcome back andy timmons here melodic muse for guitar world and we're going to carry
00:23on with some c-sharp minor blues uh for those of you curious this track that i'm playing to
00:27is actually from my in the jam course that i did for true fire a while back uh really great uh
00:32sounding bunch of tracks that you can jam on with me on if you're curious to check that out please
00:36do but let's dig back in we're gonna uh turn on a bit more gain and play uh some blues here
00:57so
01:07guitar solo
01:37Starting the solo, I'm building up, just kind of building up to the pentatonic, but as soon as I choose a bend, it's clear that I'm thinking of tension.
01:56You know, it's on a C sharp minor nine, but I decide to bend from the third to the fourth.
02:07Because that wants to go somewhere, it needs to resolve.
02:21So I would have been up to it.
02:24Maybe beyond it.
02:26It'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.
02:38There, I'm just barely touching on it, but I'm very accurate with the pitch.
02:41There, I'm just going to push.
02:56Continuing on, I bend up to the scale like we worked on earlier.
02:59I made use of that C sharp minor Dorian.
03:02It's a nice way of kind of just building a little bit and playing some melodies.
03:16And 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 Lukather, end
03:32of Rosanna, that really wide interval.
03:38But now, of course, that Rosanna's in G, this is C sharp.
03:41But I'm on the B string, bending from the E to G sharp.
03:48You know, probably coming from Albert King at some point, or Hendrix.
03:56But it's done in a shrub D4.
04:03Then I do the same bend from the B to the, yeah, what is it, B to D sharp.
04:10So, first on the B string, E to G sharp.
04:15And then...
04:18So, as you can see, there's so much potential with bending to add to your melodies.
04:32You know, I've hopefully given you lots of ideas of how to kind of bend through the chord
04:36changes, how to, you know, apply tension and release from bending to certain notes, releasing
04:42to certain notes.
04:43So, please, you know, hopefully you're inspired by this, keep playing, keep working at this
04:49bending, and I'm going to do the same thing.
04:50And we'll see you next time.
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