LEGATO

- Relax the pressure of the anchor finger

- H8p5h6h8p6p5 and the same with the ring finger instead of middle.
- Aces high solo - h8p h5p 0, h7p h5p 0

VIBRATO
- Practice against metronome, quarter notes, eighth notes, triplets. Then try as part of licks.
o Mastery: 130 bpm triplets.
- VIBRATO ON A BENT NOTE
- You need to mute the adjacent strings with the right hand so that you do not hit them with
the fretting fingers while applying vibrato.
- Always return to the original pitch, otherwise it will sound terrible.
- 3 TYPES
o Finger vibrato – by bending fingers, always supporting with unused fingers. Pull
down if possible – more control in the fingers pulling down.
o Wrist vibrato – again use unused fingers for support. Rest base of index finger side
against the neck.
o Side vibrato – is not done by sliding within a fret, but by changing the pressure of the
fretting finger from side to side, pivoting on it. Also imagine you are pulling and
pushing the string to the sides.
- ANDY JAMES
o Aggressive vibrato
 Bend up full on D string 14 while holding B string 15 with pinky
 Also double vibrato on double stops frets 14 for strings b and d, then frets
12 same strings. Try all three in succession.

BENDING
- Play a scale, play first two successive notes, then play them on the same fret using bend.
Then next two notes.
- The key is, always bend to a pitch
o Friedman: a way to grab listeners attention is to bend up from a clashing note (e.g.
minor 3rd over major 3rd) to a consonant pitch – for a split second there is a clash
which grabs attention and resolves right away.
- From LL: a blues bend is to play a note, and towards the end of its length bend it slightly and
then abruptly mute the string with the base of the palm.
- A nice DRAMATIC bend is to bend up slowly and gradually, especially in a slower solo.
- MASTERY EXERCISE: Play a scale on one string BENDING INTO EACH NOTE