Practice Sessions: Blues Bending

Get that authentic sound

It's hard to overstate how much better my blues sound has gotten since working through Kid Andersen's course. He teaches how to play those specific blues sounds that are embedded deep in your subconscious from years of listening to old blues but never figured out how to extract from the fingerboard. I learned so much and had a great time! These practice sessions really feel like sitting down with the teacher and working on new licks together. Highly recommended!

A Fun Way To Improve Your Blues Bending!

Kid Andersen is a great player who brings good humour to all his endeavours - including this set of lessons on blues bending. The practice sessions format (focusing on repeating very specific skills) really does deliver results if you stick with it, and is fun to work with.

Kid is the man!

A course based solely on bends seems a bit extravagant but there is so much to get in to on this course. Kid is an outstanding player- deeply rooted in the tradition of blues guitar playing but with more than a nod to modern techniques and styles. I really enjoy Kids lessons - this is the second one that I have bought and it doesn't disappoint. His humour shines through and makes watching the lessons a real pleasure. I think most guitarists like myself should spend more time on techniques like bends and vibrato- this for me is what really sets the electric guitar apart from so many instruments and what gives the guitar its expressiveness.

A bends with soul

Kid is a great guitarist who offers you a perspective of how bendings should be in the blues, a genre very characteristic for the soul and feeling that can never be missing. In the lesson he does a great job of showing you resources and techniques that are used in the creation of guitar licks, plus the explanation of each technique makes the learning dynamic. The style that he has and that you can learn makes the lesson totally recommendable.

So you think you know how to bend....

I thought that I knew how to bend. There's nothing to it, right? Just make sure you hit the target note and you are golden. Then you see Kid Andersen bend, and wow. You get wide bends (3 tones!), bends where you deliberately catch the string above (or is it below?). This course will makes your fingers hurt like they haven't for years. And to top it all off, Kid is a really amusing instructor with a very entertaining style. He makes it fun and boy can he play.