Bending octave shapes

[anon]

I was looking through a tab to a song the other day, and I noticed that an octave shape is bent up a semitone during the chorus. I've attempted to play this, but I'm struggling to bend both notes to the required pitch, and I'm not sure whether to use my third finger or my pinky for the higher note.

Can anyone help?

[Kuckelimuck]

hmmm, if you post the bend i could give a shot. Hard to get what you mean:)

Do you mean something like this???

e---13b--------------------------
b---------------------------------
g---10b----------------------------
d---------------------------------
a---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

[anon]

hmmm, if you post the bend i could give a shot. Hard to get what you mean:)

Do you mean something like this???

e---13b--------------------------
b---------------------------------
g---10b----------------------------
d---------------------------------
a---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

That's the idea, although it occurs on the 5th and 3rd strings:

e---------------------------------
b---------------------------------
g---14b---------------------------
d---------------------------------
a---12b---------------------------
E---------------------------------

[Kuckelimuck]

Ok, i would play the high note either with ring the ringfinger and middle as support or with the pinky and the ringfinger as support.
Support=helping the bend "behind" the frettet note as when you bend regular bends.I mean you (almost) never bend a note with just one finger.

[hairballxavier]

I was looking through a tab to a song the other day, and I noticed that an octave shape is bent up a semitone during the chorus. I've attempted to play this, but I'm struggling to bend both notes to the required pitch, and I'm not sure whether to use my third finger or my pinky for the higher note.

Can anyone help? I would usually use the ring finger or middle finger for the higher note someting like that. I play alot of octives and that's the way I would do it, depending on what I was going to play before and after the octave bend. Also move your whole hand when you bend it.

Personally I wouldn't try to reinforce the bend with another finger because your fingers would be all squeezed together then and put your hand in a weaker position. What I mean is, depending on the size of your hands, it could make you have to sorta cup or scrunch your knuckles together.

It could also make you bend one string sharper that the other.

I'd say the best thing to do if you are having trouble with it is pratice playing scales and melodies with octave shapes. Get used to moving your whole hand to change from note to note insted of just your fingers.

[Valgeir]

For bending the shape, I'd suggest trying to keep your fingers and wrist stiff and simply turning your wrist. Also, is it possible that maybe a whammy bar or pedal was used in the song? It isn't very easy to bend two notes (especially on non-adjacent strings) equally.

[Doctor Gee]

When it comes to bending octaves, I've always kept my fingers just fretting the notes and bent the notes pulling down with my elbow. That's also how I execute vibrato when I want to be slow and expressive...

[Mandz]

Foo Fighters bend octaves on "Learn To Fly".

when/if i bend octaves, i either pull with my octaves or rotate my forearm. both work, but the rotation feels more natural and fluid to me. on stage, the elbow thing looks better from the crowd's perspective. so i learned both ways. i don't recommend the bendy-fingers approach personally.

i don't usually need to support any of the fingers usually.

[Obivion]

I bend octaves in the classical hand position for some weird reason, with index on one and middle and ring on the other.