Albert King Style Blues Bending Lick on Guitar

Hi there. This is Robert from dolphinstreet.com. This time I want to show a really cool Albert King style of Blues Lick. I am going to show you how to play this lick in more than one way so that you can choose which way suits you best. It is the same lick I am just using different fingering and I know the different strings. So here we go.

I am playing this lick over at A7 chord

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And this one sounds like

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In the first example I am probably close to the way Albert King actually played this licks. He would do these giant bends so here I am on the XIII fret on a B string

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And I am bending all way up to that note which is two whole steps

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So I have to bend really hard

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And then going down to that note.

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One more time

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In this second example I am closer to the, I think the way Stewart Raymond played it

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I am only doing a one whole step bend here. But on the second note I am not going all the way down to there and so in between. That last base had a little bend on [Demonstration] that note [Demonstration]

In example three, I am bending with my index finger on that second note

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In example four, I am playing the same as the first time almost except I am starting bending here, and sliding the whole set the fingers down here and bending up

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Last example I am here on the G string. I am playing the same idea as the first time except I use in different strings so I have to change my fingers a little bit but

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Just use little E so to bend the G string up to whole steps than the B string

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