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This section of the method is about attitude adding the human element to your playing so it doesn’t sound robotic or flat. Ben frames it as a toolbox of immediately usable tips and tricks, but also a bigger idea: learning to control the note and communicate emotion.
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Ben is showing you how to fake those big whammy-bar dive bombs on a Telecaster by combining aggressive string bends with tapped harmonics. He frets a note, bends it hard using three fingers for control, then taps exactly 12 frets higher right on the fret wire and lifts off immediately to make it squeal. From there he adds vibrato and brings the bend back down for that “dive” effect, treating it as a simple trick you can drop into a solo rather than something you have to use everywhere.
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Ben shows how to get a bigger, more aggressive “scream” by making two notes clash using unison bends and added harmonics instead of a whammy bar. He focuses on strong multi-finger bends, pushing them further than normal, and dropping these sounds into solos sparingly for maximum impact.
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Ben demonstrates a couple of “extreme scream” tricks that let you fake whammy-bar chaos on any guitar: an underhand bend where he reaches under the strings to help force huge bends and unison screams, plus a Satriani-style “airplane” effect created by combining bends with tapped harmonics (often on two strings at once) so the pitches clash and wobble into that lift-off, dive-bomb sound you can drop straight into your solos.