How to Combine String Bending and Vibrato
Hi I am Stewart Bull from licklibrary.com and welcome to this lesson on bending and vibrato. Hopefully, you have checked out my lessons on bending and vibrato separately. And now, I am going to show you how to put the two things together.
You should have already known how to bend a note. You push it up. For once, that note is up there. You want to add a little bit of interest to it and the way that we do that is by adding vibrato to the note when it is already bent. So the note goes up and when it is up there, we add the vibrato technique. Suppose you are just doing it when it is there, we do it on the note when it is bent.
There are numerous ways that you can apply this. The way I allow to do it is to bend the note. This is with no vibrato, repeat the note and then add the vibrato at that point. So here, obviously, you can add the vibrato straight away or you can wait like I do. And depending on how you like to hear it, you can have the vibrato faster, slower or some of the more kind of rock and metal players like the vibrato to be wider. And what that means, is that when I bend like this, you can hear that the notes are going up and down quite small. And to make the vibrato wider, you literally just make that pitch bigger.
And that is really just how you want your guitar playing to sound. So this is bending and vibrato, have fun.
