Any Advice For My Bending Troubles?

[Autumn]

I’ve recently decided to try my hand at things like hammer-ons, pull-offs, and bending. However, I noticed that sometimes when I bend, the string I’m bending collides with the string above or below it (depending on which way I’m bending). This sometimes makes that open string ring out when I let the bent string go back down. Is there a good way to avoid this? Will it go away with practice?

 

[Ed Seith]

Typically, when you bend, you’re bending up, so if you bend the B string, you’re having trouble with G ringing out after, right?
Right hand muting. Just like you palm mute to play chugga chugga Metallica riffs, you can lay the fleshy part of that hand over any and all strings below the one you’re playing.
It can take a LOT of work to get used to JUST DOING IT without thinking about it, but I GUARANTEE you, it is worth it.

 

[idssdi]

It can go away with practice but like Ed says it’s also right hand muting. If you get a hang of it you don’t even have to think about it any more and it just becomes second nature.

 

[Firsty Lasty]

Developing proper callouses on your fingertips will help a lot, at least it did for me. If your fingertips are soft it’s easy for your skin and multiple strings to all smoosh together into a chaotic mess.

 

[Rute Rodrigues]

Like Ed said, palm mute the string you don’t want to play. It’s what I do, actually