Bonus Episode - B Bender Guitar Tips with Trey Hensley

0:40 I wish, yeah. That thing sounds great. You got a little bag bad Jack there I. Got to. I got to juice it a little. Oh. Yeah. She she's used she's sorry, promise. We're not always like this. So we're you're an electric guitar player, an acoustic guitar player. When it when you pick up an electric that says 10s on it, I think what are the adjustments that you need to make other than just finger strength? Yeah, that's the big one.

1:09 I mean, for me, like I use my, I do have to get back into using my finger. So like if I'm, if I have time, I'll try to warm up a little bit with, you know, trying to get my. It's the same thing I'll do like with the other like that where I'm doing those Just like where's my point? Little, you know, recalibration on the bend, so I'm used to really.

1:47 But you don't use your the hybrid picking type thing on acoustic you said. So why? Is it just because of the string gauge that you find or is it? Sound, yeah, I think it's the sound. I mean, there's so much of the stuff I like. upstroke thing that you were talking about that's weaker. Actually, it feels stronger on and you know, yeah, the.

2:17 Electric, it pops. I always think of like stuff I always like growing up was, you know, like Merle Haggard stuff, which a lot of it had James Burton playing It's funny, I do a ton of that stuff disguised as not tell you that. Yeah, man, I hear a lot of that in your in your playing. I love that thing.

3:32 There's just something about that. There's a pocket of air that like. Yeah. It's a really hard thing to describe, but you can almost feel it when you're hearing it, or especially when you're playing it. It's sort of projects you onto the next lick and you're like, yeah, I'm in that pocket. Kind of floating on something there for. A moment you said, James Burton.

3:51 What other like electric dudes were you like Really hip and listening to? I mean like country World, it was all the old school stuff like Don Rich and like that was the intro to like getting a telly was that Carnegie Hall Buck Owens album. Whereas like the first solo on that record is 5 seconds long. I just like that he left it's in A and he left that G just ringing, you know?

4:31 It's just great. And I think the first like rock'n'roll guitar player was like Jimmy Page. That was my. That was your guy? Yeah, that. Was my guy, so I got a Les Paul. So you do know normal rock'n'roll riffs too? I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. So you do study and practice the ways. You do know the art of the power chord?

4:52 Yes, also me and Tyler's eyes. Really. Oh, do you think so? That's amazing. So B Bender, we'll wrap up with this. What what about a bee Bender do you think is just better when it comes to electric guitar? Why would you want one of those versus a regular one? I. Tend to overuse them when I have them so I have to like really it's. Like me with a whammy bar.

5:14 Yeah, dude. I have to really like hone it in a little bit, but there's something about just having that. I think like Clarence White with the birds is a perfect example of using it, you know, more rock'n'roll context. I mean, it's not some of that stuff is pretty country I got we tried to put some WD40 on it and it's hey we. Did hey by the way I saw people posted we I was like get some WD40 bro and we like sprayed it down. They were like, that's not you shouldn't be doing that. You shouldn't be doing that.

6:38 Bro, what are you doing? Yeah, I. Remember whatever I had, I've got one that's real squeaky. And Gene Parsons, the guy, you know, I messaged him, he's still out in, he's putting a a Bender in one of my tailors. Did you say hey man, I got a squeaky Bender bro maybe. You could give me his contact info and I could be like I got a problem listen and. That was the first thing I got back was do not ever put WD4. Sorry about that.

6:59 Hey, you heard it from the. It's just you, as long as you're not miking that. Yeah, as long as you're not miking that. Yeah, you guys aren't even going to hear any of that. Dude, what was that little thing you did there at the end? That little. Well, it's like a you're hitting it in mid bend almost.

7:14 Oh, yeah, Yeah. That's something that that's new to me. Because you're kind of going in between that major and minor. Yeah, where the half note is. That's like 1/2. Yeah, just a half instead of a. Yeah, that's what we, when we first were trying it out, we kept hitting the whole bend and we're like, ah, that one works.

7:51 Oh, that one's bad. Oh, that one works. Yeah, most times, like I've got to figure out a way to get it. Usually it's like that that shape where it would typically be like an A. That that thing where you raise it up, but you haven't hit the straight. That's what that's what I'm missing because I'll I'll hit it and then bend it and it's like a you got.

8:16 To do a pre bend bro. The pre bend. Hey you got to pre bend the neck. Pre bend the neck. Have you guys seen this guy on social media? I I think it's like RVJ guitars. This guy in he's in Oklahoma and he has like, no, I think he has Bender, but he also has little bars. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, I've seen that guy. Yeah, he's.

8:37 Got the little baby bars. Yeah, yeah, dude, it's like an art and it's a baby bar. It's like an AB Bender is like an art in itself doing all that little micro tonal stuff. Is is it's it's money, man.