Truefire Chris Buono's Practice Sessions: Bending Workouts TUTORiAL

Learn and Practice Bending Techniques with Interactive Practice Sessions
Bending is one of the most unique and expressive techniques a guitar player can master. Unfortunately, most players never properly train their ear or build the muscle memory and pitch control needed to execute a wide variety of bending techniques and take command of the broad melodic applications that bending can offer.

Chris Buono's Bending Workouts edition of Practice Sessions drills deep on Van Halen Overbends, Ghost Bends, Double-Stop Bends, Wound String Bends, First Finger Bends and Combined Bending Techniques.

”We'll focus on building your bending technique by playing together through eight powerful practice sessions. I'll kick off each study with a breakdown of the bending technique and then I'll perform an example over a backing track to give you a feel for how it sits in a groove.

We'll cap off each study together with a hands-on practice session. I'll roll the track and we'll trade back and forth as I guide you through the core exercises followed by several variations and embellishments.”

What makes this format really special is how you'll get these approaches firmly under your fingers -- you'll practice each of the bending techniques together with Chris, in a series of interactive practice sessions.

Chris will kick off each study with a breakdown of the bending technique and then perform it over a backing track to give you a feel for how it sits in the rhythm section.

You'll cap off each bending study together with a hands-on practice session. Chris will roll the track and you'll trade back and forth as Chris guides you through the core examples followed by several variations and embellishments. Working regularly with these “practice sessions” is the key to having command of all 8 blues soloing approaches.

”We'll start out with a couple of workouts for basic bending technique. Then we'll work on one of my favorites, something I call Van Halen Overbending. The fourth session focuses on bending on the wound strings while the following one addresses ghost bends (AKA pre-bends).

Next up, working on some drills for building bending strength in the first finger followed by the timeless double stop bend. Lastly, we'll work on some lines that combine bending approaches together.

Throughout the lessons I will pass along key tips and insight that, with time and practice, will help you become a bending expert. Each of the practice sessions come with the jam tracks I use throughout the course so you can work with them on your own.”

Chris will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You'll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you'll be able to use TrueFire's learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.

Grab your guitar and let's practice bending with Chris Buono!

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