Techniques From Songs: 推弦的表情(The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps)

這次的Techniques From Songs要聊聊「推弦的表情」。

推弦是一個非常「吉他」的演奏技巧，也能夠彰顯出演奏者「演奏表情」上的特徵。

推弦不只是把弦往上推而已，還關係到「推到哪個音、推的速度、推到音準後得處理」。另外還有釋放「釋放後的音高、釋放的速度」。除了單純的推弦之外，也還有一些組合技套餐，總之推弦是一個可以展現豐富表情的演奏技巧。

在這些前情提要後再來看上週Cover的While My Guitar Gently Weeps。

上週有提過這是一首非常適合練習推弦的曲子，可是為什麼呢？

首先他的推弦包含了半音、全音、一全音一半音，把比較常用的推弦範圍都推過了一次。

再來是，推到音準後加上揉弦的表情非常大！是一個特徵很明顯的演奏！

最後是，有許多組合技套餐！

可以注意，這裡比較沒有提到的是「速度」，推弦與釋放的速度。

這個部分其實也有很多可能性，但今天我們就先不多談！在知道有這些需要注意的點之後，在練習與聆聽音樂時，都要更加注意演奏者處理的細節，才能讓自己更加進步喔！

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This time in Techniques From Songs, we are going to talk about the expression of bending.

Bending is a very “guitar” technique, which conveys a player’s playing character.

It isn’t only a technique pushing strings upward, but also relates to how high you bend, how fast you bend, what you are going to do when you reach the pitch. Releasing the string is another thing, where you are releasing to, how fast you release. You can also combine bending with other techniques into a combo. In sum, bending is a really expressive technique.

In last week, I covered the guitar solo of The Beatles's While My Guitar Gently Weeps and mentioned that it is a good song for practicing bending. But why?

First, he bends in half note, whole note and one whole and half note. That is the most commonly used bending range.

Second, his vibrato after reaching the pitch is very distinctive.

Last, there are a lot of combos.

We didn't talk much about "speed" this time, the speed of bending and releasing.

Although there are many possibilities, let's stop at here for now. Since now we know there are  different aspects about bending, next time when you are practicing, try to focus more on these details!