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Chapter 2, GUITAR TECHNIQUE, Page 32, ArticulationVIBRATOVibrato (vib) This technique can be used in many different ways and the way every guitaristuse it is quite personal. Vibrato is giving the note more expression and makes it last longer. Itcan be produced by the following means:- Pull the string up and down with your left hand. You can do it in various speeds.- Slightly move the left-hand finger up and down within the fret. Classical string players oftenuse this technique.- A combination these two techniques.If you have a tremolo arm, you can use it to equally vibrate all strings.Fig. 17VibratoNotes2vibrato.PDF
Chapter 2, GUITAR TECHNIQUE, Page 33, ArticulationBENDS / UNISON BENDFig. 18BendsBends. When you bend a string with your left hand finger, you can rise the pitch by aninterval of a semi-note or a whole note, and sometimes even higher. Usually, guitarists use tobend the string from one note to another belonging to the same key and scale. Generallybending on the thinnest strings requires more strength in your muscles, and you must developthe right feeling in your fingers (and ears!) to bend the strings accurately to the exact pitch. Abend should sound like it is supposed to sound, that is: when you bend a string you should feelhow hard you must bend it to go up to desired note. Hear this note in your head and then bendthe string to it. It demands quite a lot of work to get this nailed; remember that every stringmust be bent with different strength even if you want to bend it by the same interval as you dofor the other strings. Do not forget that when you bend the string with your pinkie, ring or longfinger, you can use other fingers along with the first one to help it bend the string (it is calledreinforcement).The following exercise incorporates half and whole step bends, and should be practiced notonly in 10 th position on E 1 st string, but also in other positions on other strings!!!Notes2bends.PDFObserve that the thinner E 1 st , 2 nd and G 3 rd strings should be bended upwards, while the bassstrings are preferably bended downwards, towards the floor.Tablature2bends_tab.PDFNOTE The simple tablature employed in this example (ASCII tablature) does not include the graphic arrowsof the note example, but uses b = bend, r = return from bend and ^ = high bend.
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