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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