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    Default Hendrix - Bending Strings, Bending my MIND!

    Below are some guitar lead techniques I'm not very clear about from a Hendrix biography*. If anyone has a suggestions, I'd be grateful.


    Jimi would also play a bent note on one string bent up and then play the second note on another string on the way down from the first bend.
    Example given: during Message from Nine to The Universe (on LP of same name).
    do they mean like what happens 5:11 to 5:15 or 5:59 to 6:08?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhBMntUekA4

    Another bend technique was to bend one string and fret on a note on second string, but play both notes together during the actual bend - like during the introduction to Highway Chile
    What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is that what is happening at 0:02 to 0:016 ?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT0B2K6MWk



    Jimi would frequently bend the strings upwards, as opposed to the downward bend that most guitarists use.
    I would have expected this quote to be the opposite. Don't most guitar players bend strings up, not down? It seems much easier to me.

    Thanks for any suggestions! R C

    * Quotes taken from Jimi Hendrix Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro and Ceaser glebbeek appendix 2 pp 680-681
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    The person that wrote this clearly did'nt play guitar much, or at all. Or at least, they arent very good with explanations.
    I wouldnt waste your time dissecting it.

    Move on to a better source.

    TK

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    I tried to watch my bends today as I went through Red House. I don't know which way hendrix bends things but I noticed that pretty much if it is one of the three strings (high e, b, g) from the bottom of the fret, I push them, and if its ones on the top I pull them.

    Is this typical? It seems the most rational way ( can't really push the low E very far or it goes off the fret! )

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcwilk View Post
    I tried to watch my bends today as I went through Red House. I don't know which way hendrix bends things but I noticed that pretty much if it is one of the three strings (high e, b, g) from the bottom of the fret, I push them, and if its ones on the top I pull them.

    Is this typical? It seems the most rational way ( can't really push the low E very far or it goes off the fret! )

    RC
    Yes, that's the way it's usually done.
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    Another bend technique was to bend one string and fret on a note on second string, but play both notes together during the actual bend - like during the introduction to Highway Chile
    What does it mean, to "fret on a note" and is that what is happening at 0:02 to 0:016 ?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT0B2K6MWk
    Richard Wilkerson | dreamgate.com

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