Originally Posted by: greengamer8990

I don't understand bending on tabs i.e. what they are saying to do exactly.

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The letter 'b' indicates to bend the string. The first number is the fret you hold. The second number is the target note that you bend up to. So, bend the 7th fret up until it sounds like the note fretted at the 9th fret.

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Originally Posted by: greengamer8990The first capture the tab has G string with 7b9, his fingers don't touch fret 9, but instead are pushing up G string on fret 5,6,7....Why?

[p]You are bending the 7th fret note up in pitch until it matches the sound of the 9th fret. He is using the 5th & 6th frets as leverage to help push the string up to bend it. They are not critical to the pitch, but usually it helps to have the other fingers on the string in order to have the strength to bend it & the stability to keep it bent up.

[quote=greengamer8990]The second capture...the tab reads 5B 7G and 5B 9G. No string is pushed up on the 5th fret or the 9th fret, the strings are pushed up on frets 6 and 7. Why?

Again a bend on the 7th fret with the sound of the 9th fret being the target pitch. There shouldn't be a 'b' on the B string because the player is only holding the 5th fret. This is called an oblique bend because one note is changing pitch (the note on the G string), while the other note (the note on the B string) is not changing.

Hope that helps!