- Lesson Title:
B-Bender: Using It With A Chords
- Guitar Instructor: J.D. Jarrell
- Lesson Added: October 31st 2009
- Lesson Files: Video Guitar Lesson, Guitar Tab, Notation
- Lesson Difficulty: Easy
- Lesson Focus: Chords
- Lesson Style: All Styles
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Excerpt:
The first chord is just an A chord, and you can make a bar in the 2nd fret, or use the 3 finger position. Here we're bending the 3rd note in the scale up to the 4th, so this is another half step bend. Start on the open 5th string, and after picking the 2nd string pull the bender up a half step, and then release it. You want the bent note to sound like the note in the 3rd fret, on the 2nd string.
The first chord is just an A chord, and you can make a bar in the 2nd fret, or use the 3 finger position. Here we're bending the 3rd note in the scale up to the 4th, so this is another half step bend. Start on the open 5th string, and after picking the 2nd string pull the bender up a half step, and then release it. You want the bent note to sound like the note in the 3rd fret, on the 2nd string.
The next chord is an A7 chord, but we're adding the G note by playing the 3rd string open. You can also add the G note in the 3rd fret on the 1st string. We're still bending the 3rd note in the scale up to the 4th, and this is also a half step bend. Start on the open 5th string, and after picking the 2nd string pull the bender up a half step, and then release it.
The next one is the Asus2 chord, that we used in
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