Steve Rieck: One little trick that lot of blues guitar player eventually tend to use is what I am going to refer to is two-strings release bends and it sounds something like this.
The idea is that I am bending, in this case the eight fret on the second string, up a whole step holding that up and you can see my third finger just barely going over the third string. So I am holding the note up, when I pick the second string I am going to pick the third string on the way down, so you get this combine sound between the two notes. Of course, that's written out on the tab. The string bending is something that's new to you; I definitely refer you to the string bending tutorials in our lead guitar techniques podcast before you get into this. But a lot of guys like Jimi Hendrix use this pretty extensively. So that's the first lick, that will be over. So you are playing in a basic A box, in the key of A.
That's the idea for that. If I were to take that lick to the key of E, I just move up to the twelfth position to the E box. So that's the first lick again in A and E. Again the trick there to do it slowly is to really watch your third finger as you are bending that up a whole step. See I am holding the third string as well. So I want to bring it down here, the third and the second ringing together. Of course, the pitch that you are bending up to on the second string is really G to an A, it's a real definite pitch, sort of legitimate pitch there. When you are bending off the third string, what's really cool about that is that you are on a semitone, you all will note that just between two regular notes that you find in the twelve-and-a-half and steps that you go.
Some more microtonal kind of stuff in there which is obviously always a good thing with blues, and again in E. So then in the second lick we are going to do the same idea, but we will bend the first string up. So it will sound something like this. That is also in the key of A, this. Of course, that tabbed out in the beginning as well. One more time the key of A. If I already take it down here and start in the ninth fret on the third string, I am going to be on the key of E.
So again as I am bending that first string up, in this case of the tenth fret, you can see my third finger is over the second string. So it comes down off the second string. So once again on those four licks. The first one is the key of A, the first lick in the key of E, the second lick in the key of A, and the second lick in the key of E. Thats two-strings release bends.
Rhino Newell: Hi, everyone. My name is Rhino Newell. I play guitar in the Band Sister Hazel. This would be a G chord and you just strum down and then arpeggiate it back up and the last banish is --
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