{"id":6908,"date":"2016-06-16T22:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T05:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2016-06-16T22:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T05:11:02","slug":"where-to-make-the-bends-in-blues-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/where-to-make-the-bends-in-blues-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Where To Make The Bends In Blues Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems there is a lot of confusion about bends&#8230; which is a shame because they are THE coolest thing about playing guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Bends allow us to do on a guitar what few other instruments can do&#8230; it&#8217;s incredibly expressive and, done right, almost impossible to really imitate any other way.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; with great power comes great responsibility &#8211; and bending poorly can make you sound&#8230; well&#8230; really awful.<\/p>\n<p>A bad bend makes an otherwise killer lick sound amateurish and messy&#8230; we don&#8217;t want that.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s talk about the best places to bend, and <em>why they work<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>(and my apologies for my little rant towards the end.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8y9AOMWuJY?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Downloads &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/WhereToBendNotesInBoxes.mp4\">MP4<\/a> |<a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/WhereToBendNotesInBoxes.wmv\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems there is a lot of confusion about bends&#8230; which is a shame because they are THE coolest thing about playing guitar. Bends allow us to do on a guitar what few other instruments can do&#8230; it&#8217;s incredibly expressive and, done right, almost impossible to really imitate any other way. But &#8211; with great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}