I've just recently started looking into BB's style of playing blues, so this is all new to me. I'm struck at the simplicity of what he did while making it all sound so good. He didn't do a lot of fast and fancy fretboard work. He very much used a "less is more" approach to his playing. I appreciate that folks like you can explain things in a way that's easy to understand.
Great job as usual Brian! These lessons are why I’m an Active Melody member...oh, I love BB too! In my opinion he is probably the most influential guitarist ( and musician) in the blues rock genre ever. This lesson is very well articulated and yes, a lightbulb has been turned on for me! Thanks for this one Brian!
What an awesome tutorial! I'm one of those 40 something guitar players that has been in "campfire song" limbo for the past 15 years. This has helped more than anything I've ever tried! You're a great teacher! I won't be frontman for Double Trouble anytime soon but I can FINALLY freestyle on the neck a bit thanks to you!
You said, "Light Bulb Moment": anything you post for me is a light bulb moment! I'm always grateful for your content and your wealth of knowledge, even at times, theory wise it maybe over me head, I pick up bits and pieces as I go.
Also, BB lessons on your channel are a big hit because you play and explain the lessons very well. I always have a new perspective from viewing your lessons.
Great lesson Brian. Love it. Very much a lightbulb moment. Please do more of these BB and Albert King house patterns. Very helpful with mixing major and minor. Again….extremely helpful!
Just heard the BB tutorial. I learned a lot about mixing minor & major scales. Your teaching methods are exceptionally clear. From someone who teaches & played guitar for 35 years.
There are DOZENS , maybe hundreds , of really good guitar teachers on TH-cam - but only a handful like you , my friend !! You have all the great feel and technique that makes you a master , but what sets you apart is your humility , your easy to understand lessons , slow , clear video editing and most of all , your joy of teaching others out of the pure love of guitar music. Combine that with the desire to better others - so they can enjoy the satisfaction of being able to have fun playing cool-sounding stuff - WITHOUT months of boring theory or mundane exercises !! You do have great classes for that as well , for those seeking professional-level playing , but you are in a class of precious few that are humble and truly enjoy getting others learning to play cool-sounding stuff right away. Thanks for what you do !!
As a quite good keyboard player, now learning guitar, I found this really helpful, talking about the shapes, and the short phrases, really helps me start to understand BB's style - thanks so much !
I've got about a hundred of yours in my Active Melody email folder. Another good one. Thanks! Saw/heard him live three times. Undescribable, can't be recorded! Truly the King of the blues. No one better! 🤘
Awesome lesson, I've been looking for something like this for years. What a difference with just a few well thought out notes. The bends are just perfect, playing this in the next jam night. Thank you.
Wow! What an absolutely inspirational tutorial! I have been stuck in panic mode and straight to pentatonic box 1 for about 5 years now but have just sat for an hour jamming around with all these shapes and, although I say it myself, my ideas and solos sound so much more interesting now. Thank you so much for showing us how to join those three shapes in such an informative and clear way. My wife even just said it sounds so much better than what I was doing before after just an hour. Brilliant!
Most of us Blues guys are moving toward Jump Blues and Bee Bop. BB swings it, he was one of my favorites. Him and Larry Carlton Thanks for what you do 72 years old and cranking it up Peace Los Angeles
This is really excellent. Thanks! It's interesting that BB King saw himself more as a singer than a guitarist, which you can see when you listen to him sing.
And I say that we could all bet our guitars , the man wasn't thinking about major ,minor pentatonic scales notes when he was jamming the blues. Only our man Brian is trying to confuse everyone with music theory , hehehe. Knowing scales patterns is very important but don't matter much when you explain BB King licks. Clever work there, Brian.
@@alexgrecu4395 You're definitely on to something there. He knew his minor and major thirds, and his fifths and his sevenths, and of course enjoyed going back to the tonic a lot. But he was probably thinking about notes which sounded good and he could use (whether or not they were part of the scale) as opposed to notes which didn't. There is a lot of chromaticism in his playing too.
I knew all of this before but the way you explain it is so clear. It makes me ver excited for those who are only just discovering this magic. Breakthrough lesson for many, I’m sure. Amazing teacher!
I’ve seen videos on the BB Box before, but this is the best one yet because of the way you blend minor and major with the licks and still keep within the context of the backing track. Makes it much more ‘musical’ and has made me feel more confident to try when improvising myself.
Thanks Brian. Great fun! So many 'simple" licks. I'll be going over this for a while to pick it all up and then get up to speed. More please! Many thanks.
This was an excellent lesson and explained a lot of the nuances of the BBK zone. Thanks Brian. Here is a tiny detail regarding how the BBK zone relates to the CAGED system. When moving to the 8th fret position (minor pentatonic, position 2), and your 3rd finger is on the A (second string,10th fret), you have moved into the D-shape of CAGED. Since this position is minor, you can see the open position D-minor shape in the scale tones.
Fantastic. I'm a BB fan and a Brian fan. Makes for a nice lesson especially in connection with the Guide to the Pentatonic scales you put out in EP 436. My wife gave me a membership to Active Melody for Christmas last year. I'm already lobbying for a renewal this year. Thanks for all the light bulb moments.
@@HarryBarry97 If you are a paid member you can find it under his "Blues Lead Guitar Course" on the main courses page. I'm in Europe and I only paid around 68€ for a full year so I found it is really worth it. :)
Hey Brian, Wonderful stuff. Greetings from Dublin - I got to wait until late in the evening 'cos of the time zones for your lessons but man was this one worth it. Love your enthusiasm, you've helped my playing so much. Thanks, Mick
Okay. Major lightbulb moment. Most of the lessons I've watched, I either lose interest, or am just not interested but being a big fan of BB kept me interested in this and in fact, made the most sense. I don't play very good at all, but this one had me playing all the way through which made me feel really good. Played this until my fingers hurt. (I need to learn how to develop a light touch instead of strangling the neck.) Awesome lesson right here. This lesson might make me a subscriber.
One of the best video lesson of yours Brian! Really understand the mechanics of the BB playing at last. I would like hearing intervals too as fret numbers, Im more of an interval guy lol. Thank you for this great lesson.
There's so much you can do with a few notes in 1-2 centered aereas. It's the way to emphasize them. Great centered-twiddly-sweet spot-stuff! And again, some theory wrapped into a song. 👍🎸😇
Thank you so much. This was so helpful since I LOVE the blues and BB king. It’s so simplistic, but so nuanced at the same time. it was great how you broke it down since I’m good as seeing patterns as well. I actually play with inverted strings like Albert King or Eric Gales, so I need it broken down like this so I can develop my own approach to it 🙏
Another reason I voted with my wallet to be an Active Melody member! Of all of the online teachers out there, Brian breaks it down to the simplest common denominator. For me, this is similar to learning simple math as a child. The first things we learned were the basic formulas and why it adds up to the correct answer. Just remember: You can't go into the maternity ward at the hospital and ask where the baby guitar players are. Guitar or any other instrument is a LEARNED skill.... Nobody is actually born with it although some are blessed with perfect pitch!
A good lesson which is a nice refresher for me to see every now and then, to uncomplicate my blues playing which often has too many notes in my improvised phrasing. My "keep it simple, stupid" go-to!
Wow.....great lesson!!!......ive been playing a long time and BB is always a " grail".....your explanation is right on.....i learned a little different way to look and approach BBs work
And that’s what Saturday morning is al about pure genius from a great teacher. Thanks Brian .
These kind of lessons that you do. OPENED it all up to me. Thank you Brian 👍👍🎸😎
I've just recently started looking into BB's style of playing blues, so this is all new to me. I'm struck at the simplicity of what he did while making it all sound so good. He didn't do a lot of fast and fancy fretboard work. He very much used a "less is more" approach to his playing. I appreciate that folks like you can explain things in a way that's easy to understand.
Great job as usual Brian! These lessons are why I’m an Active Melody member...oh, I love BB too! In my opinion he is probably the most influential guitarist ( and musician) in the blues rock genre ever. This lesson is very well articulated and yes, a lightbulb has been turned on for me! Thanks for this one Brian!
Brian that's the best B.B. lesson I've watched. it finally clicked switching from minor to major. That's the sound.
What an awesome tutorial! I'm one of those 40 something guitar players that has been in "campfire song" limbo for the past 15 years. This has helped more than anything I've ever tried! You're a great teacher! I won't be frontman for Double Trouble anytime soon but I can FINALLY freestyle on the neck a bit thanks to you!
I’m with ion that bro great stuff cheers from Ireland 🇮🇪 Brian
This is the best way I’ve seen this explained and goes a lot further than any of the videos which just focus on the box.
A wonderful, detailed, brilliantly explained lesson Brian. Thank you so much for your generosity making these lessons.
So happy to find Active Melody. I'm a premium member but am jamed up with copral tunnel right mow, picked the guitar back up after 30 years.
Sorry to hear that
You said, "Light Bulb Moment": anything you post for me is a light bulb moment! I'm always grateful for your content and your wealth of knowledge, even at times, theory wise it maybe over me head, I pick up bits and pieces as I go.
Also, BB lessons on your channel are a big hit because you play and explain the lessons very well. I always have a new perspective from viewing your lessons.
Great lesson Brian. Love it. Very much a lightbulb moment.
Please do more of these BB and Albert King house patterns. Very helpful with mixing major and minor.
Again….extremely helpful!
I love how just by reading comments i can tell its a worthwhile lesson just from the lightbulb statement.
Thank you for that move on this lick! This my day light to be turned on yeah!!!!
Just heard the BB tutorial. I learned a lot about mixing minor & major scales. Your teaching methods are exceptionally clear. From someone who teaches & played guitar for 35 years.
There are DOZENS , maybe hundreds , of really good guitar teachers on TH-cam - but only a handful like you , my friend !! You have all the great feel and technique that makes you a master , but what sets you apart is your humility , your easy to understand lessons , slow , clear video editing and most of all , your joy of teaching others out of the pure love of guitar music. Combine that with the desire to better others - so they can enjoy the satisfaction of being able to have fun playing cool-sounding stuff - WITHOUT months of boring theory or mundane exercises !! You do have great classes for that as well , for those seeking professional-level playing , but you are in a class of precious few that are humble and truly enjoy getting others learning to play cool-sounding stuff right away. Thanks for what you do !!
What a blessing. The 60 second vids are perfect 👌🏽 thanks man!
As a quite good keyboard player, now learning guitar, I found this really helpful, talking about the shapes, and the short phrases, really helps me start to understand BB's style - thanks so much !
This is finally clicking for now I’m watching this over and over and using the two pentatonic boxes with bends etc… THANKYOU THANKYOU
I've got about a hundred of yours in my Active Melody email folder. Another good one. Thanks!
Saw/heard him live three times. Undescribable, can't be recorded! Truly the King of the blues. No one better! 🤘
Brian always inspires me, he's like the neighbor you wanted to live by!!
This is so simple but good. Shredding is technically brilliant, but this says more. Thanks Brian.
I knew all this, buts it is a beauty to watch a pro make it look so effortless. I will practice again tonight.
Awesome lesson, I've been looking for something like this for years. What a difference with just a few well thought out notes. The bends are just perfect, playing this in the next jam night. Thank you.
Thank god. So good. Really appreciate this one man. You're right, total light bulb. 🎵💜
Definitely clicked. Best BB decipher ever. Thanks
Wow! What an absolutely inspirational tutorial! I have been stuck in panic mode and straight to pentatonic box 1 for about 5 years now but have just sat for an hour jamming around with all these shapes and, although I say it myself, my ideas and solos sound so much more interesting now. Thank you so much for showing us how to join those three shapes in such an informative and clear way. My wife even just said it sounds so much better than what I was doing before after just an hour. Brilliant!
Can't help but to be excited with this lesson !!
Most of us Blues guys are moving toward Jump Blues and Bee Bop. BB swings it, he was one of my favorites. Him and Larry Carlton Thanks for what you do 72 years old and cranking it up
Peace Los Angeles
Thanks for your help. I waited too long to learn lead but your are helping and I appreciate it.
Very colourful and rich, love this Allmans type Jam stuff and learning the principles of it!
This is really excellent. Thanks! It's interesting that BB King saw himself more as a singer than a guitarist, which you can see when you listen to him sing.
You are able simplify the most difficult licks wow thank you
B.B. King plays guitar the same way he sings, that is so true! He was one of those guitar players you can recognize instantly.
And I say that we could all bet our guitars , the man wasn't thinking about major ,minor pentatonic scales notes when he was jamming the blues. Only our man Brian is trying to confuse everyone with music theory , hehehe. Knowing scales patterns is very important but don't matter much when you explain BB King licks. Clever work there, Brian.
@@alexgrecu4395 You're definitely on to something there. He knew his minor and major thirds, and his fifths and his sevenths, and of course enjoyed going back to the tonic a lot. But he was probably thinking about notes which sounded good and he could use (whether or not they were part of the scale) as opposed to notes which didn't. There is a lot of chromaticism in his playing too.
This should be standard curriculum for any aspiring blues players. All i know is learned something here....thanks brian
Quite an eye-opener. Thank you!
Awesome insight with tasty riffs. Great touch. Thank you for the short cut to better independence
I knew all of this before but the way you explain it is so clear. It makes me ver excited for those who are only just discovering this magic. Breakthrough lesson for many, I’m sure. Amazing teacher!
I've watched so many videos on the box and this made it finally sit so well. Thanks so much for your time
A great lesson I am now out of a rut with my playing.
Well insanely popular will this fabulous lesson be !
Everything you teach seems to click with me. Thanks Brian
This was definitely a big Ah Ha moment for me. Thank you for turning on this light.
Brian...This is clicking with me. Thank you sir!
I’ve seen videos on the BB Box before, but this is the best one yet because of the way you blend minor and major with the licks and still keep within the context of the backing track. Makes it much more ‘musical’ and has made me feel more confident to try when improvising myself.
Man, Brian ~ this was a great lesson! The whole thing was a "light bulb" experience for me. This really clicked. Thank you SO much!
Outstanding lesson… Leaves us with so much to add into our improvising… Into our lead playing, thank you Brian! 🎸🎶
Awesome lesson! Definitely opened up more for me. Made a quick look and played the position and jammed for over an hour!
fantastic. You have explained it better than anybody else.
Best BB Lesson ever... Thank you
Another golden episode ❤
Lightbulb moment for me, thanks Brian!
You gotta luv it! Steven Spielberg teaching BB King. Just joshin man, thank you, just subscribed.
Perfect lesson. I finally got a B.B. in my pocket. Thanks
Thanks Brian. Great fun! So many 'simple" licks. I'll be going over this for a while to pick it all up and then get up to speed. More please! Many thanks.
This was an excellent lesson and explained a lot of the nuances of the BBK zone. Thanks Brian. Here is a tiny detail regarding how the BBK zone relates to the CAGED system. When moving to the 8th fret position (minor pentatonic, position 2), and your 3rd finger is on the A (second string,10th fret), you have moved into the D-shape of CAGED. Since this position is minor, you can see the open position D-minor shape in the scale tones.
Nice, thanks Brian! It's all making sense and I can see the patterns on the fret board.
Such an Excellent teacher! 😊🤙🤙
Thanks for the The side by side minor to major blues houses triangles demo.
Fantastic. I'm a BB fan and a Brian fan. Makes for a nice lesson especially in connection with the Guide to the Pentatonic scales you put out in EP 436. My wife gave me a membership to Active Melody for Christmas last year. I'm already lobbying for a renewal this year. Thanks for all the light bulb moments.
Fantastic. A great way of visualising BB's soloing technique. Will be sitting with this lesson for some close reading. Thanks!
Just started your Blues course so this is good. Thanks Brian.
Brians Blues course? where can i find it?
@@HarryBarry97 If you are a paid member you can find it under his "Blues Lead Guitar Course" on the main courses page. I'm in Europe and I only paid around 68€ for a full year so I found it is really worth it. :)
@@oldguydave7355 Thank you sir!
Hey Brian, Wonderful stuff. Greetings from Dublin - I got to wait until late in the evening 'cos of the time zones for your lessons but man was this one worth it. Love your enthusiasm, you've helped my playing so much. Thanks, Mick
Hello, Dublin!! Love that city!! Cheers, Michael Lynch!! :)
Definitely dig the BB lesson, I like all the videos you do! I always Look forward to your stand alone comps too! 👍
You were right with my learning pace with this one.
Yeaaah! Happy to see a vid again, especially BB! Great to get the blues feels in songs. Learning a lot with your tutorials! Thanks!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thanks - love the way you sing!
@@activemelody A collaboration maybe??😃
@@GenX4ever I'd be down with that!
Superb! Another brilliant lesson on BB's style.
Okay. Major lightbulb moment. Most of the lessons I've watched, I either lose interest, or am just not interested but being a big fan of BB kept me interested in this and in fact, made the most sense. I don't play very good at all, but this one had me playing all the way through which made me feel really good. Played this until my fingers hurt. (I need to learn how to develop a light touch instead of strangling the neck.) Awesome lesson right here. This lesson might make me a subscriber.
Fantastic lesson. opened the door for me, thank you.
Thank you very much for this lesson. And, men....how it sounds this beauty!!!
Great tone here
Sounds just like something BB would play, but he made it look so easy.
Thanks for the lessons.
I think I get it! I'll practice it for a few weeks and see what happens. Thanks!
One of the best video lesson of yours Brian! Really understand the mechanics of the BB playing at last. I would like hearing intervals too as fret numbers, Im more of an interval guy lol. Thank you for this great lesson.
Blues course student here too. Learning a lot from you. Glad I found your channel
There's so much you can do with a few notes in 1-2 centered aereas. It's the way to emphasize them. Great centered-twiddly-sweet spot-stuff! And again, some theory wrapped into a song. 👍🎸😇
Another light bulb moment for me! Loved it. 👍
Thanks Brian. I am one of those that this made a quantum difference and put two pieces together I had never mated.
Great BB lesson. All your stuff is great. Highly recommended
awesome BB King Lesson! Nice Gibson ES 335 Dot too!!! ; )
Definitely bookmarking this one for reference good to think notes and intervals while having such a good example to watch!
Fantastic lesson. Super clear as always. Thanks Brian.
Yep Brian, it clicked! Awesome lesson, best guitar learning I've had in quite a while! Many tnx...
Love your visualisations , usefull stuff as always!!
You have talent both as a guitarist and a teacher thanks!
Ive been looking for a good video on mixing major and minor and this helped a ton. Thank you.
An outstanding lesson! Thank you. 💡💡💡💡💡
Thank you!! Really taught me something!!
Thank you so much. This was so helpful since I LOVE the blues and BB king. It’s so simplistic, but so nuanced at the same time. it was great how you broke it down since I’m good as seeing patterns as well. I actually play with inverted strings like Albert King or Eric Gales, so I need it broken down like this so I can develop my own approach to it 🙏
Wow what a lesson Genius.
Fantastic lesson. Thanks
Really good lesson. Lots of info here but very clear and understandable. Love all your lessons. Thanks
Brilliant, thank you Brian.
Another reason I voted with my wallet to be an Active Melody member! Of all of the online teachers out there, Brian breaks it down to the simplest common denominator. For me, this is similar to learning simple math as a child. The first things we learned were the basic formulas and why it adds up to the correct answer. Just remember: You can't go into the maternity ward at the hospital and ask where the baby guitar players are. Guitar or any other instrument is a LEARNED skill.... Nobody is actually born with it although some are blessed with perfect pitch!
The triangle shapes super cool thank you
Great lesson. Thanks from Madrid
Yes, Brian, light bulb and a half! Many thanks!
Superbe course Brian. Thanks a lot !
Loved this lesson. Just got started with blues guitar. The visual shapes and zones or positions really help. Thank you 🙏
A good lesson which is a nice refresher for me to see every now and then, to uncomplicate my blues playing which often has too many notes in my improvised phrasing. My "keep it simple, stupid" go-to!
Wow.....great lesson!!!......ive been playing a long time and BB is always a " grail".....your explanation is right on.....i learned a little different way to look and approach BBs work