{"id":8328,"date":"2022-09-13T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:55:59","slug":"bends-lots-of-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/bends-lots-of-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Bends&#8230; Lots Of &#8216;Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading back to some blues technique basics today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think bending is the thing that makes guitars cooler than everything else \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But, if your bends are&#8230; sucky&#8230; then they don&#8217;t sound good and they don&#8217;t have the desired effect.<\/p>\n<p>So let me show you some things to listen for, and some ideas on how to improve them so that you&#8217;re making some beautiful noises with them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SOeEq-44_ZA?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>If this is where you&#8217;re at and what you&#8217;re doing, I recommend my <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-blues-guitar-unleashed\">Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a> course to improve your blues playing so you can get up and jam anywhere, any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading back to some blues technique basics today&#8230; I think bending is the thing that makes guitars cooler than everything else \ud83d\ude42 But, if your bends are&#8230; sucky&#8230; then they don&#8217;t sound good and they don&#8217;t have the desired effect. So let me show you some things to listen for, and some ideas on how [&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\/8328"}],"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=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8329,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions\/8329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}