Originally Posted by: nigels5443

Hi. I'm having trouble with bending. When I bend my bending finger sometimes gets stuck under the string above or when I release the bend ,it's like I'm doing a pulloff from the string above.

[p]It's possible that your action is too high as Herman mentioned. This could cause your finger to slide under the upper adjacent string. What kind of guitar are you using? Have you had the action (string height relative to the frets) adjusted?

But it's also likely that you need to work on your muting. There is often some tricky & somewhat subtle muting technique required to do bending to keep other strings from ringing. This is especially important because when you bend you necessarily have to move one string into the space another one normal occupies.

Anders covers some of the basics in this lesson. Especially watch how he uses the fingers of his fretting hand to keep other strings from ringing.

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=20179&s_id=1589

You can also use the palm of your picking hand to help. I cover a wide variety of muting techniques in this tutorial. Lesson 4 & 5 focus on some muting while bending.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2281

I also mentinon & demonstrate muting the lower strings with my picking hand palm in this lesson on bending. Bonus! This is a really great lick to learn!

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=20406&s_id=1614

Hope this helps!