The "bend" that LiK referred to is the "false fret" technique I described previously. I've been trying to explain to her that "bending" a note is something else (for about 10 years or so) but she thinks it sounds like she knows what she's doing so she keeps calling it "bending."

In the language of "normal persons" (not exactly my beloved LiK's) a "bend" results when you press the string against a fret and then push it sideways along the fret, so that the string tension is increased enough to raise the pitch. Especially in blues, it's often not necessary to "bend to" a specific note, but just to obtain an "inflection" of the pitch to convey the "bluesness" of your song, although with some practice you may be able to obtain notes "between the frets" with fair accuracy. The bend is handy in some kinds of music because it's a way, on a fretted instrument, to get a slurred grace note effect, so it's used even on instruments that have "all the frets."

John