I've been playing fixed bridge guitars since virtually day 1 of my playing life. I've always felt a connection to the tele and done what needed to be done to make it "special", taking all those Jerry Donahue and Jim Campilongo things.
The behind the nut bend is a staple of any flashy tele bend, especially if you're holding other notes doing it. Just recently though I realised I could do these all on my Vigiers, which is fantastic for a modern player (I could certainly never do this on an Ibanez!). If youc an do this on your axe, it's worth a go!
I also do a cool Jerry Donahue lick in this one when I bend the D up a semitone, then the G up a tone, catch the B and bend it up and I release the D and G - that's a REAL tricky one!!!
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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Yeah, you need to make sure you're set up with gear for the job, but eventually, you're going to get wear anyway just as with fret wire (though a nut is much easier to replace than frets! haha)
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Surely that would have worked on your PGM400? You'd get more upward travel that way than with the whammy.
I've been all over this technique from day one because the bloke who's shop sold me my first electric did it when he demoed the guitar for me, and I thought it looked and sounded awesome.
IIRC it still only had a tiny distance between the strings behind the nut and the truss cover - I'd bet you'd struggle to get a semitone
TBH though, I didn't know what a behind the nut bend was when I had that axe
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Ah, I see. With the back-angled headstock on the PGM there's not much space to push down. You'd need a Timmons or a Satriani 600 or something.
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Sorry, answering my own point here - no behind the nut bends but more tuner tweaking. Plus any excuse for some Junior Brown.
I know this because I transcribed it.
I also have a copy of Jim's notation on this song- he has a really weird way of doing it- it is a combination of chord charts and tab in one.
It is actually harder to figure out than reading dots.
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This is is a terrible quality video but he's using behind the nut bends and tone swells ( that wahhh thing) on this:
Jim is probably my favourite modern guitar player- he has such an advanced level of technique but his style is still very much rooted in playing the song, rather than showing the technique.
He's a monster player.
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