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In Deep by Andy Aledort OBLIQUE WORKOUT Guitar players are well aware that three of the most reliable techniques for creating expressive solos are string bending, vibrato and the combination of bending with vibrato. One exceptionally cool and useful bending technique is what’s known as an oblique bend. This is where you play two notes on two different strings and bend one while the other remains unbent.

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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 bends

00:40and oblique bending techniques and then I'll show you how to get into them, get out of them,

00:45and some great ways to incorporate them into your solos. Here we go. So if this is the oblique bend,

00:52like in the key of A7, we have the fourth D bend up to E and a b7 on top. So you could bend the D to E

01:16and hear that sound and have a release pull up or go all the way out of the D. That one I picked the D

01:36and then the G. So it wasn't simultaneous. Like that. Or you could pre-bend it and then release.

01:55Another thing is you can, instead of playing them simultaneously, is pick one and then the other.

02:15So what I did there was first I picked the B string four times and then two times and then I ended

02:40it with this. And there's all kinds of different things you could do there. Like you could do bigger.

03:01like Albert King almost a two-step. With a 10 it's a little tough too normally.

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