Wanna improve your bending/ear?

[Shreddy Mercury]

Play some Gary Moore tunes. I was goofing around on Songsterr with a few of his tunes and with how long he holds out slow bends with minimal backing instrumentals, you'll know if your bends are good or need work. Hold out a whole step bend in the 12th position for a few seconds and if it sounds sour....back to the woodshed.

I hadn't really listened to much of his stuff, and many of the songs I was playing all sound sort of the same, but I really dug The Loner. Absolutely beautiful piece of music. Was kinda odd seeing him play a Jackson in the video. He looks like he was a bigger guy with a bigger frame, so a lean, mean shred machine looked kinda funny on him. But wow, he made that guitar cry.

 

[VonBonfire]

He looks like a pint sized dude to me next to Scott Gorham, but he had rather large hands for his height. Gary has the fastest trill I've ever heard so I've tried to limit the range of my finger movement to get up the speed like that but his fast twitch muscles are something else. My bends are good to go already or I wouldn't get any gigs.