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  • Lesson Title:

    Full Bends Using An Acoustic

  • Guitar Instructor: Kevin Taylor
  • Lesson Added: September 23rd 2008
  • Lesson Files: Video Guitar Lesson, Guitar Tab, Notation
  • Lesson Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Lesson Focus: Technique
  • Lesson Style: Acoustic
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Is it possible to do full bends using an acoustic guitar?

This question was posted recently in the forum area.
Apparently, the person in question was attempting to do full bends that either had no result at all or ended up with a broken string.

While it is definitely possible to do full bends on an acoustic, there are a couple of tricks you can use to make this much more simple.

For starters, change over to a Light or Custom Light guage set of strings.

The person who asked this question was using a Medium set of strings which contains the sizes:

13-17-26-36-46-56

By switching to a light set of strings you wo...

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