Bends

So how are you supposed to bend strings without making others that are not even adjacent ring? For example, a lot of times when I bend the high E, the G or D ring.

Also, how do you stop adjacent strings from ringing? Or is it just my ****ty guitar?

I notice that my guitar is super noisy, not even bending just in general, compared to everything I ever see on YouTube or anywhere else (talking non-pro people).

mute it with a finger you're not using.

what kind of guitar do you have

Single coils make more noise.
Could be wiring or the amp.
Your palm on the strings in the vicinity of the bridge might cut down the adjacent string ring.


If other strings ring:
Nut cut poorly.
Crummy technique/huge fingers

I have a squier strat with strings that are 2-3 years old

there's your problem

I have a squier strat with strings that are 2-3 years old

The very first thing I had to replace on my Squier was the nut.
The 'b' slot was way too wide and would chime when I bent the string.
My tech guy said he thought someone might have tried to string it as a lefty, the slot was so wide.

What I find funny is the VM series are made to Fender specs - ie they are Imperial and not Metric as other, 'made outside USA' guitars are.
I had to buy a Fender tremolo arm, the Squier one didn't fit.

Take it to a competent tech, pay the money and you'll love the guitar.

or shell out another hundred for something much, much better.

My ltd m250 is around 200 bucks I think, but I play it nearly as much as my strat (bought it for 400).

It has nothing to do with guitar hardware or the nut.

It just comes with time and practice and good right and left hand technique.

It has nothing to do with guitar hardware or the nut.

It just comes with time and practice and good right and left hand technique.

yes your accuracy will come with time.

I wouldn't spend money on that guitar, aside from taking it to a shop to have them do a basic set up/tune up. I'm not ripping on your guitar, but the Squier series isn't really worth upgrading, etc.

Just practice better technique. I don't think you have a hardware issue. Oh and change your strings, they shouldn't be 2-3 years old. My rule of thumb "change 'em out when the chrome is gone."

well, unless it's just using my index finger to mute adjacent strings, no one has mentioned what this illusive technique is, which is what i was asking

That's pretty much it, dude.

Do other strings ring when you bend or is it the note you are bending makes a chime when you bend it?
If it is when you bend it, it is a badly cut nut. A new nut will solve it.
If it is adjacent strings it's you fat hands. Practice will solve it.

Don't listen to the haters, the new Squiers are really nice guitars.
The hardware for the most part is cheap, the nut, the saddles, but the pickups in mine are SDs, same **** they want you to buy in another body.
And the specs are imperial not metric.

Right hand mutes strings below the bend. Left index lays back to mute the upper ones. You can also use free right hand fingers to reach over and mute the higher strings.

And then spend time on getting in-tune / in-time vibrato on the top of the bend.