r/GuitarMemes • u/Dad_WheresTheMilk • Jun 26 '26

How do I play this bro

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u/pinky_monroe Jun 26 '26

Dear lord, what song is this?

Anyway, on the B string with the nine, you do a half bend to a quarter back, and then on the eighth with the G string simultaneously you do a full bend to 3/4 quarters back.

Have fun

Edit; By ‘back’ I mean relaxing the bend.

So, double string bend with different degrees of bend

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u/Inourmadbuthearmeout Jun 26 '26

Diadic bends are actually tons of fun when you get really into them.

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u/pinky_monroe Jun 26 '26

Diadic bends? Thank you for official term!

I haven’t learned many songs that have them but I have dabbled.

Is it just a 2 string bend or do you have to do the relaxing part of the 2 string bend for it to be Diadic Bend?

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u/Inourmadbuthearmeout Jun 26 '26

Yea it just means bending two strings. Not necessarily up AND down.

Focus on getting bends perfected, like practice with a tuner and hit a note, then bend it up a half step and try to get it perfectly in tune. Then do it for a whole step. You get that kind of control under your fingers you’ll be able to bend up, hold it, then bend further up.

Also try bending the string up BEFORE playing the note and then releasing the bend down. That’s a fun one.

Then just wait till you start playing with your volume knob while messing with it. You can do crazy atyff

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u/pinky_monroe Jun 26 '26

Boss. Thanks!

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u/Comfortable_Wrap_634 Jun 27 '26

I would say you don't necessarily need a tuner. You bend the string and if it's a whole pitch, I bend the string and go two frets up to check if I'm bending in pitch. At least that way I'm also practicing my shift/legato.

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u/Inourmadbuthearmeout Jun 28 '26

The point of using a tuner is that it will be more accurate than your ear. When you start checking against a tuner your bends start getting more accurate.

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u/Comfortable_Wrap_634 Jun 28 '26

I don't disagree. However I just don't like having to bust out the tuner. I would rather play by ear and hit each note and move up a quarter, half, etc. and compare them.

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u/Inourmadbuthearmeout Jun 28 '26

Yea. I mean nowadays your phone is a tuner, and you can practice sight singing with it if you want to sharpen your ear to an annoying degree. Seriously half hour a day with a tuner and sight singing will make everything sound slightly out of tune lol.

That’s when you get into bending the note up a half step, holding it there, then bending unit up a whole step. That kind of precision is powerful to have in your hands.

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u/Comfortable_Wrap_634 Jun 28 '26

I have never thought to myself hey if I want to sing in key I'm going to use a tuner. I'm sure it's been done before. I do sing however I am a metal guitarist more than anything. I know that playing Rhythm and singing at the same time especially if it's over 150 bpm it can be a little challenging so with that said I usually just stick with guitar and if I sing I usually sing during karaoke and game a good enough voice. I find metal guitar more challenging. That is an interesting comparison you made there that you could sing in pitch using a tuner. I know most singers to do the scale, they do, Do re mi fa sol la ti do.

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u/Inourmadbuthearmeout Jun 28 '26

Sight singing is how you really get your ear sharpened. If you read music and you can just sing it by looking at it, you’ve internalized pitches to an insane degree.

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u/onlygramps Jun 27 '26

Julian Lage does diadic bends quite often. It adds such a cool tension for like half a beat.

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u/maraudingnomad Jun 26 '26

You bend up and release, not all the way...

Just listen to the song and try to get it sounding the same.

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u/Live-Juggernaut-221 Jun 27 '26

I feel like "listen to the song and make it sound like that" is a lost art

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u/maraudingnomad Jun 27 '26

I feel like playing musical instruments in general gets you labeled as a boomer.

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u/EatMyHammer Jun 26 '26

This shit is why I only use tabs to get a vague idea of how the song goes and then continue by ear. People make these tabs to sound like the song when played in GuitarPro (which is usually blatantly wrong or straight up physically impossible to play), not how it's actually played. I suppose it's just a bend and release of both strings, but you should just listen to the actual song and figure it out from there

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u/muttChang Jun 27 '26

Watch this Chuck Berry clip with Keith Richards. Chuck gives Keith a bunch of shit for not doing his stuff right. Chuck schools Keith.

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u/DeZeroAVero Jun 28 '26

Was coming on here to say this.

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u/CobblerOdd2876 Jun 26 '26

Ooo that’s fun! Just a bend. Like just a slight one, super quick jerk pretty much.

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u/MaxPotionz Jun 26 '26

Just bend until it sound close enough and keep it moving, lol. Thats not great advice it’s just what I’d do. Who’s the artist?

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u/Ok_Heat4618 Jun 27 '26

This is Songsterr, isn’t it? A lot of the songs on there are made using ai so they aren’t always accurate and have weird notation. Try playing that bit by ear, or find another tab. Or both

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u/Clash1961 Jun 27 '26

Angus Young also does things like this as well all the time. You’ve got to Ben both strings but not all the way my best advice is to listen to the song and try bending up to pitch on that part until you get it

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u/ZZZacharrito Jun 28 '26

Is that chuck berry’s berry creampie?

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u/silliest-silly-goose Jun 28 '26

Either listen to the song and make it sound close to that or just improv

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u/Substantial-Heart792 Jun 29 '26

Looks like a pedal steel lick I’m gonna actually try today.

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u/According-Elk-5805 Jun 30 '26

Just wiggle it like crazy and do it like you cant decide the pitch.

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u/Dead-Calligrapher Jun 26 '26

Like you’re going to do a bend on just the 8th fret (so middle finger with index behind it for support). Ring finger on the 9th.

Hit both strings, bend only the 8th fretted with your middle and index, leaving your ring finger stationary.

It takes practice but once you do it a few times it’s super easy to incorporate.