Danny Grady: Let's take a look at bending. Bending is one of the first advanced concepts you learn as a guitar player. The concept part is you actually taking a note and you are adding more tension to the string to change the pitch.
So this ninth fret note here actually starts to sound like the 11th fret. The advantage is, you get a smooth transition between the notes, it's for little more human like, it is a little more expressive.
So the first and most basic bend that we are going to learn here is the one I am doing. It is a whole-step bend that you do with your third finger, and when you see this entablature, you will see a bend with an arrow pointing up and then you will see -- if you don't see a number, usually it implies that you are doing a whole-step bend. Sometimes you will see a fraction next to it, one-half, half-step bend; sometimes you will see one-and-a-half which means you are doing a one-and-a-half step bend.
But a whole-step bend is you are taking this note here, the ninth fret, and you are making it sound like the note a whole step up which is two frets, the 11th fret. So, we are going to do this bend by placing your third finger here on the ninth fret of the third string. The third finger is going to be actually doing the bend and then your second finger is going to be helping you to do the bend. It is going to give you a little extra strength.
Once you have this third fret note, a fretted though, it really does not matter where you put your second finger; it can be on the top of the fret or on the fretboard. In fact, you will notice that my second finger is actually on top of the fret. Its whole job at this point is just to add extra pressure to help you bend the note.
Your first finger, its job is to mute the strings above where you are bending.
Giles Martin: Hi, this is Giles Martin. I am here at Abbey Road Studios to talk about 'Can't Buy Me Love'. Can't Buy Me Love was recorded on January 29th, 1964 in Paris, not here. The reason why the Beatles in Paris is, at that time their constant tour.
Steve Rieck: Chords, as we learned in the acoustic part, are E minor to A minor to E minor to A minor to D minor 7.
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