chord. I really like the rub the bent and
fretted notes produce. Play the lick slowly,
so you can really hear those overtones
fighting with each other. I love that sound.
In Fig. 5, we push the technique a little
more for a lick that will make you want
to buy a 10-gallon hat. Essentially, we are
repeating the phrase that occurs over the
first two beats again on the next group of
strings. Keep those bent notes in tune and
add a little snap to your attack to really
pull everything out of this lick.
There are many players who are masters
of steel-inspired bending—Jimmy Bryant,
James Burton, Albert Lee, and Danny
Gatton, to name a few. One of my favorite players, David Grissom, does an amazing job of integrating this technique into
rootsy blues-rock. If you are not familiar
with some of these names, make sure to
check them out on the interwebs.
Fig. 4
44 &
E7 oe
oe#
oe
oe
oe#
oe
oe#
oe
˙
OE
hold bend 1/2
7
¿
hold bend 1
¿
hold bend 1/2
¿
10
12
8
12
14
˙
Fig. 5
44 &
E7
oe oe oe oe#
oe oe#oe oe#oe oe# oe#oeoe# oe oe#oe oeoe#
w
1
1
1
1/2
1/2
1/2
14
12
14
14
14
14
13
14
12
13
13
13
˙
14
Fig. 6
E
44 &
E
fi oe #j oeoeoe
oe
‰oe
D
fi oej oej oe oe
oeoeJ oe
‰
oe
oeoeoe
1
1
14
14
11
11
9
9
˙
9
12
12
12
11
9
9
