Problem with Standard Pentatonic lick

Ok, before I get the standard reply of "practice it at 50 bpm and increase". Ill explain that I am fully aware and use that method constantly, but Im tooking for a technique correction and not a speed improvement reply :)

Ok everyone that has studied blues guitar in rock (GnR, UFO..etc)has seen this lick right here.

E--12--------
B----15p12--
G------------14^
D------------
A------------
E------------

Its basicly used as a method of taking the 12...15p12 triplet and adding the unison bend to make even eight notes in a 4/4 bar. I have no problem doing the triplet above 200 bpm. But I cant even begin to add that bend because the fingering I use for the triplet doesn't seem to allow for a quick reaction bend. I have no teacher here to ask so I have to ask you guys about it.

The most logical way it seems for me to play this is by barring the bottom two strings (E & B) with index at fret 12. I have my pinky at 15 on B ready to pull off. and my ring at 14 (with middle) ready to bend. IT works in theory, but when I apply it...my fingers are always slipping and whatnot. Does anyone else use a different technique for this lick?

Thanks!

[Edited by Mai Zure on 02-25-2002 at 06:32 AM]

play it at 50 BPM for ten hours straight, do not eat, drink or sleep. Then, Steve VAI will appear and teach you how to finger it...

Well, I would not keep my fingers ready to play their notes, but I would bar the 12 fret on the 2 highest strings, then play the 15 with my ring(once I have played the high E) and then bend the 14 with my ring, helped with my index behind it to reach the target note.

Why don't I use my pinky? Because that's what BB does... (sorry, no good reasons)

i would say try to only have one finger on the fret board at a time it may seem a little harder at first but then you have 3 other fingers to work with , ive always played that way i dont know why its just something i started when i first started playing but try that it may work it may not but oh well fu#k it, just keep jamming

peace

can best be played, in my opinion the way lalimacefolle
describes it. That's the way I do it also.


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