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In Deep by Andy Aledort OBLIQUE WORKOUT Guitar players are well aware that three of the most reliable techniques for creating expressive solos are string bending, vibrato and the combination of bending with vibrato. One exceptionally cool and useful bending technique is what’s known as an oblique bend. This is where you play two notes on two different strings and bend one while the other remains unbent.

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00:00Hey, I'm Andy Alidort in this edition of InDeep. We are going to begin our investigation of a

00:20technique known as oblique bends. An oblique bend is when you play more than one string at a time

00:26and you combine bent strings with unbent strings. And you'll hear oblique bends in just about every

00:33style of guitar music there is. So, the first thing I'll do is get into some basics of oblique

00:40bends and oblique bending techniques, and then I'll show you how to get into them, get out of

00:45them, and some great ways to incorporate them into your solos. Here we go. So, if this is the oblique

00:52bend, like in the key of A7. So, we have the 4th D bend up to E, and a b7 on top. So, you

01:14could bend the D to E and hear that sound. And have a release pull up. Or go all the way

01:29out of the D. That one, I picked the D and then the G, so it wasn't simultaneous.

01:41Like that. Or you could pre-bend it, and then release. Another thing is you can

02:11instead of playing them simultaneously, pick one and then the other. So, what I did there

02:26was first, I picked the B string four times, and then two times. And then I ended it with

02:41this. And there's all kinds of different things you could do there. Like you could do bigger. Like

03:05Dauber King, almost a two step. With a 10, it's a little tough, too, normally.

03:10Dauber King, almost a two, normally.

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