Wizard of Wailing
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I've been playing the guitar for 26 years, and in the past year I learned two new tricks that I'm amazed I never knew. I thought I'd share them (although these are probably old news to a lot of people here).
One is to have just one finger bending up a string a full step (we'll say the B string), and then hitting the next string up (the G which will be bent about 1/2 step) while the B is bent. I bend two strings with one finger simultaneously a lot but I never thought to bend only one and then strike the other string after the first note is bent. I learned it from this video on Greg Koch talking about Hendrix. He demos this at the 3:45 mark.
https://youtu.be/idO-UC4ZDt8
The other is to tap a note with your left hand and slide it down the fretboard and then tap the same note with your right hand. I learned this from the "Insanely Amazing Guitar Solo" that I've been practicing. In this video he does it on the 21st fret of the B string a few times followed by the 21st fret on the E string. It's at the 1:56 mark.
https://youtu.be/ATub40Npxik
These remind me of watching Jimmy Page in The Song Remains the Same bending the string behind the nut. For a time every bad solo I played in 1990 had that trick in it somewhere. Another one that comes to mind is seeing Sonic Youth on the Dirty tour in 1992. Right after that show, with ears still ringing, I plugged in my Tele a slid a drumstick all over the strings (on and off the fretboard).
One is to have just one finger bending up a string a full step (we'll say the B string), and then hitting the next string up (the G which will be bent about 1/2 step) while the B is bent. I bend two strings with one finger simultaneously a lot but I never thought to bend only one and then strike the other string after the first note is bent. I learned it from this video on Greg Koch talking about Hendrix. He demos this at the 3:45 mark.
https://youtu.be/idO-UC4ZDt8
The other is to tap a note with your left hand and slide it down the fretboard and then tap the same note with your right hand. I learned this from the "Insanely Amazing Guitar Solo" that I've been practicing. In this video he does it on the 21st fret of the B string a few times followed by the 21st fret on the E string. It's at the 1:56 mark.
https://youtu.be/ATub40Npxik
These remind me of watching Jimmy Page in The Song Remains the Same bending the string behind the nut. For a time every bad solo I played in 1990 had that trick in it somewhere. Another one that comes to mind is seeing Sonic Youth on the Dirty tour in 1992. Right after that show, with ears still ringing, I plugged in my Tele a slid a drumstick all over the strings (on and off the fretboard).
