How to Read a One & a Half Step Bend on Guitar Tabs

Video Transcript

"BRYAN BILLHIMER: In this clip, we're going to talk about how to do a one-and-a-half bend. So, we see here on our tab notation 12th fret B string, an arrow up and it says one and a half. That means you bend a whole plus a half step. So, one and a half steps is what you'll be bending to. So, on a one and a half step bend, we're bending the 12th fret and we're going to make this note sound like the 15th fret because that'd be one and a half steps. So here, the 14th is a whole step and then another half step. So, that's the pitch that we're trying to get out of this bend. So, you bend it a half step higher than a full bend. See how that note sounds the same? And then if I use it in a lick, it would just be."