Hello Dave Karmiol, what strings do you have on your guitar? If I bend my strings like that they will either break or they will not even bend that far. SOMEONE PLEASE ADVICE ME STRINGS THAT BEND AND SOUND GOOD. I currently play on a Fender Stratocaster
Due to the fact that I also have a Fender Strat I recommend you buying D’agarrio NYXL strings (btw I’m not sure that how you spell Agarrio) they are amazing and they are very strong and tend to stay in amazing tune.
just learn songs and their licks then figure out where those licks are played relative to the pentatonic scale so you can play them in any key. Literally just learning songs is the best way to become good quickly.
Play that funky music white boy, hey it's ok if you're white, black yellow, brown ; whatever; where all oversensensative these days, pc, culture s censoring everything these days