Originally Posted by: haghj500Barrowing from Jon’s idea I picked up my guitar and watched how my fingers moved. Once my finger is on the string and it’s ringing, I just push or pull to make it move, but my finger tip does not roll on the string at all. The angle of the tip of my finger to the neck never changes in relationship to the neck. So my top knuckle never moves and the bottom two knuckles do the moving of the string. Make sure you are pushing down on the string as you are pushing/pulling.
Well, that could explain what I'm doing wrong. In all the videos I've watch that include bends in the riffs, I always thought they push with the tip of the finger, so that's what I've been trying to do. No wonder it didn't work out as planned...
When I get the chance, I'll try doing it as you explained, hopefully with better results.
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- Mika Vandborg, Electric Guitars, "Follow Your Heart"
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Epiphone Les Paul 100 Ebony (w/ Oil City Pickups Scrapyard Dog PLUS pickups)
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- Mika Vandborg, Electric Guitars, "Follow Your Heart"
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Gear:
Chateau PS-10 Cherry Power-Strat
Epiphone G-400 LTD 1966 Faded Worn Cherry
Epiphone Les Paul 100 Ebony (w/ Oil City Pickups Scrapyard Dog PLUS pickups)
Epiphone ES-345 Cherry
Fender 2014 Standard Stratocaster Sunburst
Martin DX1K Acoustic
Fender Mustang II Amplifier
Jet City Amplification JCA22H Tube-head and JCA12S+ cabinet
Pedals...
