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I wish I had known when I first started that a callous is your friend.....I remember the first time I had to really start learning techniques like slides and bends and got into hammer ons and pull offs.....more to the point my first time bending one of the strings it felt like it was going to slice my finger......I just kept doing this over and over off and on for days.....seemed like weeks now it's almost like my fret hand has little string groves in it lol....

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WanderingEarth · 46-50, M

Ya gotta bend to play the blues. I love how David Gilmore does these really big, accurate bends up to the root note instead of just playing the note by itself.

Sonya09 · F

When you start talking about advanced bends plain bends are simple single notes with a upward or downward half or full but some songs require certain notes that make up the chord or the chord itself to be bent which is very tricky for a beginner player

WanderingEarth · 46-50, M

I think a beginner can start doing unison bends pretty quickly. They really help you to start paying attention to pitch. Then once they get the hang of that, train wreck bends are a breeze. Suddenly it starts to sound like you're better than you really are. Those little tricks add up.

Sonya09 · F

You are talking about cheating to basically impress people not what playing a instrument is about..

WanderingEarth · 46-50, M

Not at all. These are just techniques which build upon one another. Not learning them would be like learning to walk, but not bothering to learn how to run or jump. All i'm saying is that the more techniques and variations of those techniques you learn, the more well rounded your game will be. And like legos, one block builds upon the next.