Volume 11

Table of Contents

• Introduction to String-Bending
• What it is, How it works, What Guitar to Use,
• Notation, Technique, Half-Step Bends
• “Halfway There”, “Semitone Moan”, “Minor Morph”
• “Minor Morph (cont) ”, “Lazy River Bend”, “Half Bend Blues”
• Whole-Step Bends
• “Push Comes to Shove”
• “Around the Bend”, “Back Stretch Blue”, “Whole Hog”
• “Nick's Slick Lick”, “Fender Bender”
• Bending Wound Strings
• “Pullover, Basie”, “Wound Tighter”
• “Retrograde Rumble”
• Unison Bends
• “High Tension Wires”
• Bending While Holding Another Note
• “Extended Blended Bended”
• Guitar Solo – “Grace Under Pressure”
• Two-Finger Bends
• “Bend Over Bend Blues”
• “Crisscross Sauce”
• Pre-Bends
• “Pre-Bend-tive Measures”
• “Stretched Thin”, “Blind Leap Reap”, “Pushback Track”
• Duet – “Double Twist Gist”
• Duet –
• “Grungy Bungee Blues”
• Guitar Solos – “Suspension Tension”, “Bend Before Breaking”
• Introduction to Vibrato
• Classical-Style Vibrato
• “Classi-Vibed
• “Hocus Pocus Opus”, “ClassaNova”
• Blues/Rock Style Vibrato
• “VibroLicks”, “Seismic Tremors”
• “Pushin' the Envelope”
• Vibrato With Chords (one-finger vibrato)
• “Half-Baked Quake”
• Two-Finger Vibrato
• “Finger-Twitch Kitsch”, “Double Stop Whomp”
• Three & Four-Finger Vibrato
• “Kayden's Cadence”
• Post Script on Vibrato and Whammy Bars
• Introduction to 12th Position
• 12th Position Notes on the 6th String
• Exercises 11:3.6-A – C
• 12th Position Notes on the 5th String
• Exercises 11:3.5-A – C
• 12th Position Notes on Strings 6 & 5
• Exercise 11:3.5-T
• “Twelfth Fret Two-Step”, “Force Four Forth”, “Upper Downer”
• “Broke Baroque”, “High-Low Hi-De-Ho”, “Minor Winder”
• 12th Position Notes on the 4th String
• Exercises 11:3.4-A – C
• 12th Position Notes on Strings 6 - 4
• Exercise 11:3.4-T
• “Two-Step Rep”, “Low Ride”, “Hang Time”
• “Delvin' Twelve”, “Drop Down Pound”, “Attic Floor Stomp”
• 12th Position Notes on the 3rd String
• Exercises 11:3.3-A – C
• 12th Position Notes on Strings 6 - 3
• Exercise 11:3.3-T
• “Doofer Two-fer”, “Minor Moment”, “Aeolian Eyrie”
• “‘G’-sey Peesey”, “Mandela Minor”, “Blown Up Blue”
• 12th Position Notes on the 2nd String
• Exercises 11:3.2-A – C
• 12th Position Notes on Strings 6 - 2
• Exercise 11:3.2-T
• “Second String Ding”, “Minor Over Matter”, “Morning Meander”
• “A String Short Snort”, “Mid-Atlantic Riff”, “Charm City Gritty”
• 12th Position Notes on the 1st String
• Exercises 11:3.1-A – C
• 12th Position Notes on Strings 6 - 1
• Exercise 11:3.1-T
• “Dozin' Dozen”, “Beater Ax Track”, “Upper Crust Dust”
• “Top Bop”, “Agave Blue”
• “Alexander's Rocktime Band”, “Night Owl Howl”
• “Tangled Tango”, “Hammerhead Sharps”
• “Sevenths Up”, “Major Meter Mangle”
• “Soul to Sol”, “Tectonic Uplift”
• “Home on the Twang”, “Joshua Three's”
• “Heavy Lifting”, “Down Easy”
• “Down Easy (cont.) ”, “Ace of Clubs”
• 11th Position Introduction
• 11th Position Notes
• “High-Wire Walk”
• “Eleventh E-levation”, “Cloud Minor”
• “Dominant Wail”, “Back to the Flat Cave”
• Chords in 11th & 12th Positions
• Chord Exercises 11:3-1 – 3
• Chord Exercises 11:3-4 & 5
• Chord Solo “Rush Hour Poll”
• Duet – “Two High”
• Guitar Solo – “Upscale Wail
• Introduction to Notation
• “Uptown Rebound”
• “Beyond the Norm”, “8va - tor Takeoff”