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Bending strings???


TheGreek

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  1. 1. Bending strings??

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8 hours ago, TheGreek said:

As far as I can tell the only purpose of bending strings on a bass is to add excessive wear to the frets. Personally I can't understand why players do it.

Are you a string bender??

I think if you are excessively grinding metal against metal then I can imagine that you could wear frets down. I use string bending a lot for expression but have never required a refret on any of my instruments in all my 25 odd years of playing. It's all in LH technique I feel.

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2 minutes ago, dood said:

I think if you are excessively grinding metal against metal then I can imagine that you could wear frets down. I use string bending a lot for expression but have never required a refret on any of my instruments in all my 25 odd years of playing. It's all in LH technique I feel.

Tone bends for the win:

(You don't have to watch the whole video, just a wee bit of noodling at the start!)

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