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[DerekSlide]

How many of you can do a bend and a pull pretty much at the same time?

I kind of pull down then pull off and it sounds very cool.

[6string]

Sample please?

[DerekSlide]

I will have to shoot a small video clip the sample so give me until later this evening when I can get some sleep.

[6string]

No problem, I just worked nights and I'm going to luh luh land pretty soon. I might be back on for over 24 hrs.

[DerekSlide]

Let me play with the new riff a little more and I should have a recording of it maybe tonight if not probably by midnight.

[DerekSlide]

Here is the little riff I've promised and you can see that I'm pulling off at the end of the bend.


YouTube - Little Slide Riff I'm working on.

[6string]

The part your doing with the slide?

[Andy S]

DerekSlide said:

How many of you can do a bend and a pull pretty much at the same time?

I kind of pull down then pull off and it sounds very cool.

Wouldn't that just be a downward bend quickly followed by a release (pull-off) to an open string?

Some folks consider bends only in an upward (toward the player), pushed direction. A bend is a bend whether it's pushed or pulled. Then you are just releasing ( the pull off). So I wouldn't think it's at the same time. Unless you are doing the bend on ONE string and the pull off on a different string.

And it's a bit difficult to tell exactly what it was your hands were doing in the video.

It did sound good, though.

[DerekSlide]

6string, Andy S has it right of what I'm doing.

Andy S said:

Wouldn't that just be a downward bend quickly followed by a release (pull-off) to an open string?

That's pretty much what I'm doing because it sounds like its going slightly out of key then right back in for an unusual sound.

[6string]

Oh okay, because it was in the playing slide thread I thought you were talking about doing something with the slide.

[DerekSlide]

6string said:

Oh okay, because it was in the playing slide thread I thought you were talking about doing something with the slide.

Well it was kind of both since it's slide related I thought I would post it here.

[st_jo]

i don't do YouTube so i can't say what you were doing was this or that.
your description reminds me of Knopfler.
in Sultans of Swing he employs this technique of bending and releasing while in bend.
before i found this out about Mark, i thought i was the only one who did such.
silly me

[DerekSlide]

st_jo said:

i don't do YouTube so i can't say what you were doing was this or that.
your description reminds me of Knopfler.
in Sultans of Swing he employs this technique of bending and releasing while in bend.
before i found this out about Mark, i thought i was the only one who did such.
silly me

Hi ST_JO, What form of music does Knopfler play?

Or should I just do a youtube search?

[6string]

His most famous is probably "i want my mtv"

[DerekSlide]

Ah I remember that 6string, But back in the day I was in to groups like Ac/Dc Poison, motley Crew and so on. But if you watch Fred Mcdowell he does it too.