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TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa McCRAY'S WAY. String bending, à la blues great Larry McCray A signature element in Larry McCray’s style is that he has a very distinct and unusual bending technique where he will “marry” two bends within one long phrase. In this lesson, Joe Bonamassa shows us a few ways to incorporate this technique into  soloing ideas. #JoeBonamassa #LarryMcCray

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00:00Hi there guys. Joe Bonamassa here at the beautiful Guitar World Center for the Performing Arts in

00:15Manhattan, New York City. I had the honor of producing a record with my friend Josh Smith

00:21for an artist from Michigan named Larry McCray. And Larry's always been one of my favorite players

00:27over the last 35 years. And getting to work with him, not only as a singer and a songwriter,

00:33but as a guitar player, I was able to pick up a few pointers from him. He would show his stuff when

00:39we weren't recording. And he has this really unique way of bending, where he kind of marries the two

00:46bends into one long phrase. And I'm not doing it like he plays it, because he invented it, but

00:53I'm kind of paraphrasing, no pun intended. So if we're in the key of B, it would go something like this.

01:04So if you marry both of them together,

01:06you know, and you can actually, if you want to extend it.

01:20So if you're playing, you know,

01:21And there's a cool one in E. I'm going to try to get it in one take. If not, we're going to edit it.

01:43And that's kind of a hybrid between what Larry McCray would do, or Chris Kane. And they have this,

01:49like, both those guys, some of my favorite players, because they have this ability to string

01:53phrases together, and have this infinite stream of ideas. So thank you, Larry McCray, for the tips.

02:00I'm sorry, I'm going to steal them and put them in my repertoire, but I am an equal opportunity thief.

02:19All right.

02:20But this is on the page, and you ask,

02:23are you perfect.

02:24We appreciate it.

02:25Okay, we have to stay the same guy.

02:27I am fred.

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02:32All right.

02:33I am happy enough.

02:35We aren't let you come back to school.

02:37I'm happy enough.

02:38But this is working.

02:39I am happy, not even though it's beneficial,

02:41None of it is a problem.

02:42I am happy enough.

02:44We see you all.

02:45I'm happy about this rumor's performance.

Joe Bonamassa - String Bending: À La Blues Great Larry McCray

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