{"id":8979,"date":"2026-02-15T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:44:25","slug":"how-to-do-better-blues-bends-on-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/how-to-do-better-blues-bends-on-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Do Better Blues Bends On Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things that can make you sound as good or as expressive as nailing your bends when you play the blues on your guitar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s lesson, we&#8217;ll cover the basics and some technical things to think about and pay attention to so you can bend in a way Clapton will envy \ud83d\ude09<\/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\/bZ4S9SQImrE?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 something useful to you, and you don&#8217;t yet have Blues Guitar Unleashed, I&#8217;d encourage you to <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-blues-guitar-unleashed\/\">check it out here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things that can make you sound as good or as expressive as nailing your bends when you play the blues on your guitar&#8230; In today&#8217;s lesson, we&#8217;ll cover the basics and some technical things to think about and pay attention to so you can bend in a way Clapton will envy \ud83d\ude09 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8980,"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\/8979"}],"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=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}