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00:03 Hey, everybody.
00:18 Welcome back.
00:19 Andy Timmons here, melodic muse for Guitar World.
00:22 And we're going to carry on with some C-sharp minor blues.
00:25 For those of you curious, this track that I'm playing to
00:27 is actually from my In The Jam course
00:29 I did for True Fire a while back.
00:31 Really great sounding bunch of tracks
00:33 that you can jam on with me on.
00:34 If you're curious to check that out, please do.
00:36 But let's dig back in.
00:37 We're going to turn on a bit more gain
00:39 and play some blues here.
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01:40 Starting the solo, I'm building up--
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01:46 --just kind of building up to the pentatonic.
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01:52 But as soon as I choose a bend, it's
01:54 clear that I'm thinking of tension.
01:56 It's on a C-sharp minor 9.
01:58 But I decide to bend from the third to the fourth.
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02:05 Because that wants to go somewhere.
02:08 It needs to resolve.
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02:12 So I would have been up to it.
02:24 Maybe beyond it.
02:26 It's a major third.
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02:30 So that might be a little difficult for some
02:32 to get all the way up to that pitch, but try.
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02:38 There, I'm just barely touching on it.
02:40 But I'm very accurate with the pitch.
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02:45 Continuing on, I bend up through the scale
02:58 like we worked on earlier.
02:59 I made use of that C-sharp minor Dorian.
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03:07 It's a nice way of kind of just building a little bit
03:09 and playing some melodies.
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03:13 And I switch to the B string, not only on the G string.
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03:19 At the end, I had to pull out one of my favorite bend
03:26 licks from my buddy Steve Lukather, "End of Rosanna."
03:30 That really wide interval.
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03:35 But now, of course, that Rosanna's in G. This is C-sharp.
03:38 But I'm on the B string, bending from the E to G-sharp.
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03:46 Probably coming from Albert King at some point, or Hendrix.
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03:54 But it's done in a triptych for--
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04:00 And I do the same bend from the B to the--
04:06 yeah, what is it?
04:06 B to D-sharp.
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04:10 So first on the B string, E to G-sharp.
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04:15 And then--
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04:18 So as you can see, there's so much potential with bending
04:30 to add to your melodies.
04:32 I've hopefully given you lots of ideas
04:34 of how to bend through the chord changes,
04:37 how to apply tension and release from bending to certain notes,
04:41 releasing to certain notes.
04:43 So please, hopefully you're inspired by this.
04:46 Keep playing.
04:47 Keep working at this bending.
04:49 And I'm going to do the same thing.
04:50 And we'll see you next time.
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