howBend with two or three fingers behind the bending finger, pushing from wrist rotation, not finger strength. Bend TO a pitch: check it against the fretted target until your ear owns the distance. The quarter-tone curl — bending the b3 just halfway to 3 — is its own destination.
musically, it's forThe blue note lives here; so does the pedal-steel country bend and the rock unison scream. Bending is pitch as emotion.