Lick #6: Becks Bendy Trick (Guitar Lesson LK-006) How to play

Hi, how are you doing
Justin here

In this lesson today we are going to be
checking out Becks Bendy Trick

Which is a little kinda Jeff Beckism

It's the trick is bending up to a note
that you just played normally prior

semitone, and very often it kind of
replicates the sound of kind of a

synthesizer, it's a common

Synthesizers have a little wheel:
a pitch bend wheel

and, uh yeah and hammering those guys kinda
they play a note and then they play the

note underneath it and then they bend it
up using the pich wheel

And uh it's, uh, that's what's going on here

So, uh, lets get to a close up
and have a look at how to play it

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Okay, so what the real, the trick here is
we're playing over an A7 using a kind of

blues sound, maybe a bit Mixolydian,
whatever, today bluesy kinda lick, right

So, uh, and the trick is playing this
note D

and then bending from C Sharp to D
and then releasing it

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That's kind of the idea now

I am using here
my third finger and my second finger

And that means I have a bit of support
there with my first finger to do the bend

And also, it fits then with our blues
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It kind of fits nicely under your blues
kind of scale there

Um, I very often play this
with my first and second fingers

Uhm, it's just as cool to use that
it's just when you are playing the blues

It means you can swap your fingers
around a bit, which some people find a

bit weird

Um, doesn't really matter
ideally you should be able to do it with

all of the different fingers

So, the actual rift that we've got here is
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We've got this little
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Which is really kind of a-
It's an A7 cord

An A7 arpeggio
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With this little thing tucked on the end
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Noting that these are the notes
C sharp and D

Which is here
you can also do the same trick here

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Let me just play it for you slowly
a couple of times

to make sure you get

the rhythm right
the count is, three...four...

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Or

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Of course, if you just finish the bend
here with the first finger

you have to put the second finger down
and slide it up

whereas if you finished
you just slide it straight up to the 9th

fret there

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Well, I hope you have a lot of fun playing
with Becks Bendy Trick

Um, you don't have to just use those notes
the C Sharp and the D

You can use any two notes that are a
Semitone apart

Preferably ones that are in the scale

In kind of an A Bluesy situation, you can
use a B bending to a C,

that could sound cool
You can use an F Sharp bending to a G

You can use this C Sharp going to a D
that I told you about

You might be able to get away with a
D bending to an E flat note which kinda

makes it a bit of a Blues sound

Um, you might want to check out this
little-scale I teach in an intermediate

course called the Blues Hybrid Scale
cause that's got a whole heap of semitones

that you might want to have a go at
applying this little trick to, um, it's a

really good fun one to explore

Um, so uh have fun! And I'll see you for
another lick very soon, take care of

yourselves, buh-bye.

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Well I hope you have a lot of fun playing
around with Becks Bendy Trick, um don't,

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Well I hope you have a lot of fun laughs
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Well I hope you have a lot of fun laughing
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Compose yourself man
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