How to Bend Strings on your Electric Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Mike Larney, from the band Naked Underneath, and on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to talk a little bit more about bending strings. So the important thing to remember when you bend a string is that you are essentially tightening the string, which is giving the same effect as moving your fingers up the string. So if you can look at the guitar right here, so if I start here on the 9th fret, right, and I move it up, we are going to go up a whole step. Now I can also get that same effect instead of… I can go and bend the string, because essentially, then what I have is the string here is tighter when I push it up, so you can bend up, you can bend down… and a good example of trying to hear that is I will try to get this string, these two are in tune, so if by here I will bend it until it is in tune, and you could hear when it is in tune. So play around with bending strings because it is a lot of fun, especially with distortion, because you can get some feedback when it sounds… cool. "