00:00Hey, I'm Andy Alidort in this edition of InDeep. We are going to begin our investigation of a
00:20technique known as oblique bends. An oblique bend is when you play more than one string at a time
00:26and you combine bent strings with unbent strings. And you'll hear oblique bends in just about every
00:33style of guitar music there is. So, the first thing I'll do is get into some basics of oblique
00:40bends and oblique bending techniques, and then I'll show you how to get into them, get out of
00:45them, and some great ways to incorporate them into your solos. Here we go. So, if this is the oblique
00:52bend, like in the key of A7. So, we have the 4th D bend up to E, and a b7 on top. So, you
01:14could bend the D to E and hear that sound. And have a release pull up. Or go all the way
01:29out of the D. That one, I picked the D and then the G, so it wasn't simultaneous.
01:41Like that. Or you could pre-bend it, and then release. Another thing is you can
02:11instead of playing them simultaneously, pick one and then the other. So, what I did there
02:26was first, I picked the B string four times, and then two times. And then I ended it with
02:41this. And there's all kinds of different things you could do there. Like you could do bigger. Like
03:05Dauber King, almost a two step. With a 10, it's a little tough, too, normally.
03:10Dauber King, almost a two, normally.
