Wow! I got so much insight into BB King's style through the process of making this video. I hope you do too through watching it GUITAR IN HAND! Let me know what you'd like to see next. Here are the many chapters to this very long lesson: Chapters: BB PLAYING AND TEACHING 0:00 - BB’s Slow Blues Solo in G bar 1 riff (I) 0:05 - Bars 2-3 riff (IV-I) 0:12 - Bars 3-4 riff (I) 0:17 - Bars 4-5 riff (I-IV) 0:23 - Bar 6-7 riff (IV-I) 0:28 - Bar 7-8 riff (I) 0:33 - Bars 8-9 riff (I-V) 0:39 - Bars 10-11 riff (V-I) 0:45 - bar 11 riff (I) 0:46 - BBs teaching segment intro 0:57 - BB gives examples of what he plays on each chord 1:31 - BB’s second set of examples over the chord changes LESSON INTRO 3:27 - Gary’s intro to the lesson 4:23 - Gary’s intro to “workshopping” BBs riffs to make them your own 4:50 - Gary’s teaching philosophy for this lesson PROMO SEGMENT 5:05 - TAB for Patrons overview 5:13 - fretLIVE Fretboard Mastery Program Overview 5:48 - FREE .pdfs overview - pentatonic and diatonic scales LESSON SEGMENT 5:59 - All about STRINGS…and clips of me breaking a bunch making this! 8:44 - Intro Solo Bar 1 (I) breakdown 9:30 - Lesson on what I mean by “chord tones” or “outlining the chord” 10:41 - Bars 2-3 riff (IV-I) breakdown 13:50 - a quick note on BB’s vibrato and why I won’t teach it to you 15:27 - bar 3-4 riff (I) breakdown 16:46 - bar 4-5 riff (I-IV) breakdown 18:34 - bar 6-7 riff (IV-I) breakdown 20:35 - bar 7-8 riff (I) breakdown 21:35 - bar 8-9 riff (I-V) breakdown and MIXOLYDIAN MODE lesson 24:12 - bar 10-12 riffs (V-I) breakdown 25:46 - some context about this clip as it relates to the full masterclass 26:26 - The BB Box vs. the House of Blues or Albert King Box 27:50 - BB’s raking technique to fatten up a note 28:28 - Moving the BB Box up and down the neck for I-IV-V 29:09 - Demo of me playing the solo note for note, then “workshopping it” 31:11 - 12 Bars of Backing track for you to solo 32:03 - THANK YOU POW MUSIC PATRONS!!!!
BB plays a Gibson which has a shorter scale length. Shorter scale lenght equal shorter string length from bridge to nut. Shorter string means less tension to hit a certain frequency. Lower tension means easier bends. This lower tension combined with the lower string gauge does the trick.
I haven't picked up my Guitar since 2018 do to spinal cord surgery and wouldn't pick it up knowing the accident,limited my Motor Skills( Fear ! ) till I saw this video of B.B'S Guitar lesson with you. I would like to Thank you for making the Video, as it inspired me So that I CLEANED my Guitars and so very happy,( like a kid in a Candy Store !) I Will attempt to play, and if not( so well? ...Strengthen my hands and Dive into the Music that I Love So Much... THE BLUES !!! Thank you for Doing this Video👍👌👏
This is literally exactly what every player wanted when they saw this video. There’s so much to learn here and this makes it incredibly easy to take in. Thank you so much for doing this
My brother bought a BB King tour programme for a couple of quid at an used record store. When he opened it up he found that the centrefold had been signed by the man himself!
Or you could argue that all those "great blues licks" are really nothing more than simple pentatonic scales and people still claiming that the emporer is wearing clothes.
@@smaller_cathedrals it's never been a secret that blues is relatively simple, easy to play. Its about HOW you play it and how creative you are with your playing. Blues is about soul and feeling, not technicality. All guitar solos are based off scales btw.
@@ploopy8780 Depends on how you play it. You can also make it complicated if you step out of the standard 12Bar-Blues shape. You can choose all kind of chords and chords that lead to the 3 main ones the I, the IV and the V. Same with scales. Over a blues with dominant 7 chords for example you can use major and minor pentatonic plus the diatonic scales that belong to each. Also you can play mixolydian and altered scales. On a minor blues you could play all kinds of minor scales. So you have a lot of possibilities to make it complicated but I think music shouldn't be about playing the most scales and doing the most complicated fastest stuff. For me it's about expressing feelings. To be able to do this properly you need to know all you vocabulary like all the different scales, way of phrasing, rhythm etc. but once you know all that you should cut everything back to the least needed material to express your feelings and exactly know how and when to play a tone that is not in the pentatonic. Same with tempo. You should be able to play really fast but only use that in very certain moments. At least thats my philosophy in music. Hope you understand what I mean my english is not the best.
So cool to see that BB wasn't just noodling over everything with the minor pentatonic scale. He played the chord changes. Great graphics btw. Subscribed.
@@burnertrump875 Well some do it by feel but yes if they play the right notes every single time you may begin to suspect they know what they're doing.
BB is the Man. Bought a 335 in high school, about 73, when everyone else was getting Strats & Les Pauls. But You Sir, have put aLOT of respectable work into this. Opened some doors for me. Thanks ♣️
I can’t thank you enough. It’s come at the very time I decided I must stop being lazy and polish up my solo skills. At 70 it’s about time. Thanks again.
just pure brilliance...these guys didnt need musiic theory...they just live and feel the music!! BB didnt play the blues....HE LIVED THE BLUES and you really hear that in his expression!
He absolutely uses music theory whether he knows hes using it or not everything he plays relates to music theory especially the scales he uses in his phrasings. Theres alot of guitar wannabes that refuse to learn music theory because they think the legends didnt know it, which is entirely false not including the virtuosos
An absolute master and legend! And in this, you hear why... it's all about feel, emotion, economy of playing notes, and all delivered with his iconic hand-shaking vibrato. What he teaches you here is that you don't have to play a bunch of notes to say what you want to say and convey feeling...less is more. B.B. could say more and produce feeling with just one note...but that one note is played effectively and with conviction! R.I.P. B.B....you are greatly missed! 🎸❤️🙏👏
Dude I love your animations. The first time I saw them was on the John Mayer video. I thought wow John Mayer has got an awesome animation department and knows how to do it right.
Such an amazing time to be alive as a musician. To be able to pull up a video and find the actual artist willing to show people how they work their magic at almost no cost to the viewer. And not just Mr. King either. Just great.
B.B. was the man he was truly the King of the Blues there isn't a guitarist alive that doesn't owe a debt of gratitude to this man whether they know it or not! RIP Legend.
I'm new to learning blues and can't really play guitar but I'm learning.. I'm getting an understanding of blues and actually see this before anything was said, I recognised it was 1,4,5 in G and could see how he was using the scales to match the chords being used for the rhythm. It legitimately gave me chills! Amazing and humbling!
its NOT advanced... it's lower middle.... tomm,y emmanuel teaches learn ONE bar at at time till you got it.... (slow the video down to .25 and you can follow easily) it's really quite simple.... no shredding or crazy techniques... SLOW IT DOWN TO LEARN IT..... THEN LISTEN TO IT WITHOUT PLAYING ALONG.... this gets it into your brain.... take you a week or 2 ... maybe practice 2 / 3 hours per day.... then its YOURS
Great video. Well explained. I never knew BB King was doing all these things. Clever playing. A friend of mine met BB King and asked him how to get good on guitar. BB said, "Play guitar!"
Prodigious people are capable of doing things that are complex and simple at the same time. With a simple pentatonic scale and his minimalist style, BB King was able to bring a unique style and feeling to his compositions. May God rest his soul. Sorry for my bad English.
I've been teaching myself to play Blues guitar for over 40 years. There's a ton of licks that B.B. plays that other Blues guitarists don't play. But a real revelation for me was learning to bend with my first finger. For some reason it never occurred to me to do this. Perhaps because one doesn't have the other fingers to strengthen the bend. The other thing integral to playing like B.B. are those sharp fifth passing tones and major thirds. And of course B.B.'s "stinging" vibrato. I shook his hand once during a gig here in Chicago in the 1980s. B.B. had hands as meaty as smoked hams. There was a whole lot of power behind his bends, trills, and trademark "fluttering" vibrato.
Im not sure why youtube didnt recomend this video sooner. Id been looking at B.B. King lick tutorials for a while. But a tutorial by the man himself omg this is amazing thank you so much for the animations too SO HELPFUL!
Dude i really want to thank you. I worked on your 2.5 Pentatonic Scales Approach and now you show me the master of the house of blues to really add the soul when using it.
I, too, saw the original video a number of times. However, your breakdown illuminates so much and makes it all very accessible. Thanks for putting this together. Your presentations are amongst the best on TH-cam in my opinion.
This is absolutely outstanding! Your method of superimposing the fretboard is brilliant. It makes it so much easier to see the notes, patterns, and understand the relationships to the blues scale. So much to learn in this lesson. Thank you for all the effort you put into this lesson.
Brilliant stuff-must remember to put my suit and tie on before plugging in again!!!Riley-what a player-you can hear him in hundreds of modern players-totally distinctive-and what a gentleman.
WOW!!! From the Heart here, I Thank You for making this available!! I mean as a 55 year old that initially began "jammin'" back in 1979, this is the very first opportunity that I personally have ever had to view and then literally study within such depth and detail From the heart, a sincere Thank You to both You AND BB King!!! A_N
Gary I must commend you on this, I seen this video I love it, it's the Gospel of BB I call it you have as clearly explained with amazing detail, eventually when things get better, you might see me again on Sunday night or afternoon , this lesson is golden, really appreciate the hard work you put into this ,
All I can say is thank you. I have watched so many of these guys talk about BB King and try to show what he is showing but you made it so easy to follow. Dude keep pumping videos out, you will have the most subscribers. I am in San Diego and if there is anything I can to help you let me know. I really appreciate what you have done. All I can say San Diego has the best weather in the world, if you ever come out here I love to meet you. Thank you once again. No joke.
Every time I get stagnant with my music, I go back to the Blues! I think it's kind of humbling, to tell you the truth! "Everyday, I got the Blues"! 🌎✌️🔀🎶
I can’t imagine the time that went into this animation. And the editing. It’s not especially hard stuff; this was a series of VHS tapes released when I was starting playing guitar in my teens and it came with a little “transcription” tabs pamphlet that was partial at best. BB’s best, fiery and advanced playing days were behind him at this point. He was in his “play vegas casinos” point in his career. His mid 1960s and early 1970s fire were gone, but, he aged like a fine wine 🍷 and the IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING YOUR SCALE TONES AND MELODIC INTERVALS cannot be overstated. You’ll never be able to express yourself clearly on guitar if you don’t understand and be able to aurally recognize your scale tones. See how the teacher in this video changed the riffs to make them his own? That is PRECISELY how to be a riff generator. Yeah it’s hard work. So get to it!
It’s really like…. a diamond in the rough to find this kind of content on YT. Always so impressed with this channel! (& grateful!) 🙏🏻 I’m going to have to stock up on a heck of a lot of strings for this one though…😭🤣😆
I remember after I got out of the Navy in the 90's seeing a blues festival on tv, I think it was Albert King on flying v with a broken string.He played on and didn't miss a beat.🎸😊
I bought a new Gibson 335 today..... and after watching this vid.... i asked the shop to string it up with 008 Ernie Balls.... sure makes life easy .... thanks.... busted nuttin yet....
These videos help me so much..As a beginner I have days that I just wanna learn and hear myself make some music and feel good about my playing..These help so much. I know very little about theory but I can copy and attempt..I feel like I'm learning better
Your videos are very cool and revolutionary! I hope you'll do more! Expecially for jazz players (but also fusion and shred)... So cool dude! I imagine an app like so... Will be amazing!
Hey thank you. I appreciate the effort that you did. I am recovering from a coma and I am learning how to do solo's on the guitar. I know how to play rhythm like a champ but now I am trying to learn to solos. I appreciate what you have done. I am not working but when I get back to work I plan to give you some money. I appreciate what you have done. You should keep on promoting your videos because what you have provided is priceless. Thank you very much.
Thank you for this wonderful lesson. I was 15 minutes into this video and broke already 2 E strings on the Fender Strat.... I grabbed my 335 with 10's and no string brake.... I think this has something to do with the scale length . It's easier to bend on a Gibson then on a Fender in my humble opinion. I subscibed to your wonderful channel!
This is my new favorite TH-cam channel for learning guitar! the animated tabs are extremely helpful for the visual learners. I can usually hear what notes people are playing when transcribing songs, but it can sometimes create a whole other (sometimes rather extensive) process of finding out where on the fret board they're playing them and how that ties into the overall flow of what is being played. Also, sometimes if your guitar tone is too different from the person you're transcribing, it can make it even trickier in ways one may not expect. I will say that BB Bends are substantial but not anywhere close to justifying 3 broken strings in one hour. That isn't normal even if you were doing 4-5 semitone bends which would cause maybe one breakage per hour at most, but even that's a bit of a stretch (pun not intended). I do BB bends all day on several of my guitars and I don't think I've ever broken a high E string when doing so. There is likely something that needs addressing with your guitar. I would first check the bridge saddles, nut slots, and tuning posts for burrs which is the likely culprit.
This channel has advanced me as a guitarist immensely! And I just discovered it a week ago. Waiting until the beginning of October to join your patreon! Incredible work my friend!
I wonder how much string tension has to do with him bending when he doesn't need to. Different strings do sound slightly different even on the same note because of string gauge and tension. Wonder if this is why he bends. To add that extra bit of tension on the string that adds a bit of tone difference.
This video is like one of those gifts you never forget. The fretboard display is just a dream come true. I would love to uncover Hendrix Double Stops with such display. Thanks!
Best neck animations ever! Just the first 3 min's is all a veteran theory geek but fledgling blues player like me needs to "get it". It's all in the chord tones and phrasing here. THANK YOU....!
Well ... I am totally blown away .. by how this study integrates virtual all relevant objects including the musical gearing in such a plain way .. what a present . Big Thanks from Germany :)
This video really unlocked something in my blues playing. Watching a master, and getting to play along thanks to your transcription and lesson. I’m sold, consider me a new patron.
Amazing breakdown of a classic BB King video. As others have said, I think this is the new standard for instruction videos of this kind. A well-earned subscription.
I cannot tell you how much these videos have helped me to get through the pandemic. Please please please consider doing Johnny Winters or Freddie King. Thank you again.
Wow! your graphics are flat out amazing! People don't realize how much time this sort of stuff takes.....man you even had BB's finger tremolo in time! Well done, fantastic video!!! Im a subscriber for life....
Wow! I got so much insight into BB King's style through the process of making this video. I hope you do too through watching it GUITAR IN HAND! Let me know what you'd like to see next. Here are the many chapters to this very long lesson:
Chapters:
BB PLAYING AND TEACHING
0:00 - BB’s Slow Blues Solo in G bar 1 riff (I)
0:05 - Bars 2-3 riff (IV-I)
0:12 - Bars 3-4 riff (I)
0:17 - Bars 4-5 riff (I-IV)
0:23 - Bar 6-7 riff (IV-I)
0:28 - Bar 7-8 riff (I)
0:33 - Bars 8-9 riff (I-V)
0:39 - Bars 10-11 riff (V-I)
0:45 - bar 11 riff (I)
0:46 - BBs teaching segment intro
0:57 - BB gives examples of what he plays on each chord
1:31 - BB’s second set of examples over the chord changes
LESSON INTRO
3:27 - Gary’s intro to the lesson
4:23 - Gary’s intro to “workshopping” BBs riffs to make them your own
4:50 - Gary’s teaching philosophy for this lesson
PROMO SEGMENT
5:05 - TAB for Patrons overview
5:13 - fretLIVE Fretboard Mastery Program Overview
5:48 - FREE .pdfs overview - pentatonic and diatonic scales
LESSON SEGMENT
5:59 - All about STRINGS…and clips of me breaking a bunch making this!
8:44 - Intro Solo Bar 1 (I) breakdown
9:30 - Lesson on what I mean by “chord tones” or “outlining the chord”
10:41 - Bars 2-3 riff (IV-I) breakdown
13:50 - a quick note on BB’s vibrato and why I won’t teach it to you
15:27 - bar 3-4 riff (I) breakdown
16:46 - bar 4-5 riff (I-IV) breakdown
18:34 - bar 6-7 riff (IV-I) breakdown
20:35 - bar 7-8 riff (I) breakdown
21:35 - bar 8-9 riff (I-V) breakdown and MIXOLYDIAN MODE lesson
24:12 - bar 10-12 riffs (V-I) breakdown
25:46 - some context about this clip as it relates to the full masterclass
26:26 - The BB Box vs. the House of Blues or Albert King Box
27:50 - BB’s raking technique to fatten up a note
28:28 - Moving the BB Box up and down the neck for I-IV-V
29:09 - Demo of me playing the solo note for note, then “workshopping it”
31:11 - 12 Bars of Backing track for you to solo
32:03 - THANK YOU POW MUSIC PATRONS!!!!
BB plays a Gibson which has a shorter scale length. Shorter scale lenght equal shorter string length from bridge to nut. Shorter string means less tension to hit a certain frequency. Lower tension means easier bends. This lower tension combined with the lower string gauge does the trick.
I've always disliked bbk style of playing he sux. But his vocals awwwsum 🙏🙏 sorry for my comment
@@teawabrown7861 K
@@makertje84 He plays 10's. If you put 9's on a 25.5 scale you're at about the same place tension-wise.
I haven't picked up my Guitar since 2018 do to spinal cord surgery and wouldn't pick it up knowing the accident,limited my Motor Skills( Fear ! ) till I saw this video of B.B'S Guitar lesson with you. I would like to Thank you for making the Video, as it inspired me So that I CLEANED my Guitars and so very happy,( like a kid in a Candy Store !) I Will attempt to play, and if not( so well? ...Strengthen my hands and Dive into the Music that I Love So Much... THE BLUES !!! Thank you for Doing this Video👍👌👏
Just the animation alone must've taken so long. And then transcribing and editing? You're the man!!
This video deserves more views
I'm impressed with this channel. It's really great work.
thanks for the hardwork
Absolutely. First music/guitar video where I've seen something like this. Awesome stuff.
Thank so much. BB King's doesn't seem complicated until you try to play any of his stuff note for note.
Man his phrasing is just, the licks aren't even that complicated but the feel man, good lord.
That’s the hardest part, and the only part that’s impossible to teach
This is literally exactly what every player wanted when they saw this video. There’s so much to learn here and this makes it incredibly easy to take in. Thank you so much for doing this
and so satisfying for slow fingers like most of us. forget about shredding or tapping, slow is the news fast ;)
Mega 🙌🏻
100%
My brother bought a BB King tour programme for a couple of quid at an used record store. When he opened it up he found that the centrefold had been signed by the man himself!
That’s awesome!
Wow that is dope dude
This should be the new standard for guitar instruction on TH-cam. Seeing the masters play it and having the real-time diagram underneath. Brilliant!!!
You've put countless hours into making these kinds of videos for your fellow guitar players. Much appreciated friend, thanks.
Thank you
Simple pentatonic scale turned into great blues licks.. just amazing..
Or you could argue that all those "great blues licks" are really nothing more than simple pentatonic scales and people still claiming that the emporer is wearing clothes.
@@smaller_cathedrals well, I dont want to argue about this. If you think like that, I respect your opinion.
@@smaller_cathedrals it's never been a secret that blues is relatively simple, easy to play. Its about HOW you play it and how creative you are with your playing. Blues is about soul and feeling, not technicality.
All guitar solos are based off scales btw.
@@smaller_cathedrals and playing the guitar is simply pushing down a string on a fret
@@ploopy8780 Depends on how you play it. You can also make it complicated if you step out of the standard 12Bar-Blues shape. You can choose all kind of chords and chords that lead to the 3 main ones the I, the IV and the V. Same with scales. Over a blues with dominant 7 chords for example you can use major and minor pentatonic plus the diatonic scales that belong to each. Also you can play mixolydian and altered scales. On a minor blues you could play all kinds of minor scales. So you have a lot of possibilities to make it complicated but I think music shouldn't be about playing the most scales and doing the most complicated fastest stuff. For me it's about expressing feelings. To be able to do this properly you need to know all you vocabulary like all the different scales, way of phrasing, rhythm etc. but once you know all that you should cut everything back to the least needed material to express your feelings and exactly know how and when to play a tone that is not in the pentatonic. Same with tempo. You should be able to play really fast but only use that in very certain moments. At least thats my philosophy in music. Hope you understand what I mean my english is not the best.
So cool to see that BB wasn't just noodling over everything with the minor pentatonic scale. He played the chord changes. Great graphics btw. Subscribed.
Isn't this something you should have heard a long time ago and not had to "see"?
@@burnertrump875 Well some do it by feel but yes if they play the right notes every single time you may begin to suspect they know what they're doing.
You suspected BB king, regarded as one of if not the greatest blues guitarist, of just noodling around in the minor pentatonic? 😅
BB is the Man.
Bought a 335 in high school, about 73, when everyone else was getting Strats & Les Pauls. But You Sir, have put aLOT of respectable work into this. Opened some doors for me. Thanks ♣️
Me to when everyone else was buying strats and Les Pauls, I went and brought a ES325.
Thank you so much for providing such great resources; there’s nowhere in Korea to access lectures like this!
This goes to show there's way more to his playing than many realize. Listen to his earlier jump stuff and it's on the brink of jazz
I can’t thank you enough. It’s come at the very time I decided I must stop being lazy and polish up my solo skills. At 70 it’s about time. Thanks again.
This is such a huge lesson!!!! BB makes it look so easy! respect to the King!
just pure brilliance...these guys didnt need musiic theory...they just live and feel the music!! BB didnt play the blues....HE LIVED THE BLUES and you really hear that in his expression!
He absolutely uses music theory whether he knows hes using it or not everything he plays relates to music theory especially the scales he uses in his phrasings. Theres alot of guitar wannabes that refuse to learn music theory because they think the legends didnt know it, which is entirely false not including the virtuosos
This just shows how natural the blues came to Mr. BB King.
The blues didn’t come to him he was the living embodiment of the blues 😂😂😂
I know how to play this and have been watching this for decades now. And, EVERYTIME, BB King sounds absolutely incredible. BB King IS blues.
He is the king of soul without all the notes how soft he can play but it means so much. Can feel everything.
An absolute master and legend! And in this, you hear why... it's all about feel, emotion, economy of playing notes, and all delivered with his iconic hand-shaking vibrato.
What he teaches you here is that you don't have to play a bunch of notes to say what you want to say and convey feeling...less is more. B.B. could say more and produce feeling with just one note...but that one note is played effectively and with conviction!
R.I.P. B.B....you are greatly missed! 🎸❤️🙏👏
I love bb he is not only a great musician.but also a wonderful man.
Dude I love your animations. The first time I saw them was on the John Mayer video.
I thought wow John Mayer has got an awesome animation department and knows how to do it right.
Hahaha
From the south of Brazil, a fan of the master BB KING thanks you for the content.

These are the very best tutorial videos on TH-cam, thank you 🙏🏼, peace and love from Sydney, Australia
Alex, I’ve been a guitar teacher and grand master for 90 years, and you’ve taught me more in 2 minutes than i learned in my whole life! keep it up
And how old are you now
This is the best channel ever to learn guitar ever!!
no bullshit anywhere in your work. I admire your great focus and the integrity you put in this. Congratulations and many thanks!
What i like about BB, he knows exactly what he does on the fretboard with Notes
Such an amazing time to be alive as a musician. To be able to pull up a video and find the actual artist willing to show people how they work their magic at almost no cost to the viewer. And not just Mr. King either. Just great.
B.B. was the man he was truly the King of the Blues there isn't a guitarist alive that doesn't owe a debt of gratitude to this man whether they know it or not! RIP Legend.
Tripe
I'm new to learning blues and can't really play guitar but I'm learning.. I'm getting an understanding of blues and actually see this before anything was said, I recognised it was 1,4,5 in G and could see how he was using the scales to match the chords being used for the rhythm.
It legitimately gave me chills!
Amazing and humbling!
Looks so technical. Learning how to play really well like the Masters takes years and patience.
its NOT advanced... it's lower middle.... tomm,y emmanuel teaches learn ONE bar at at time till you got it.... (slow the video down to .25 and you can follow easily) it's really quite simple.... no shredding or crazy techniques... SLOW IT DOWN TO LEARN IT..... THEN LISTEN TO IT WITHOUT PLAYING ALONG.... this gets it into your brain.... take you a week or 2 ... maybe practice 2 / 3 hours per day.... then its YOURS
Great video. Well explained. I never knew BB King was doing all these things. Clever playing.
A friend of mine met BB King and asked him how to get good on guitar. BB said, "Play guitar!"
Prodigious people are capable of doing things that are complex and simple at the same time. With a simple pentatonic scale and his minimalist style, BB King was able to bring a unique style and feeling to his compositions. May God rest his soul. Sorry for my bad English.
Thanks! This is excellent! I met B.B. King many years ago, and he was a wonderful, generous man.
I've been teaching myself to play Blues guitar for over 40 years. There's a ton of licks that B.B. plays that other Blues guitarists don't play. But a real revelation for me was learning to bend with my first finger. For some reason it never occurred to me to do this. Perhaps because one doesn't have the other fingers to strengthen the bend. The other thing integral to playing like B.B. are those sharp fifth passing tones and major thirds. And of course B.B.'s "stinging" vibrato. I shook his hand once during a gig here in Chicago in the 1980s. B.B. had hands as meaty as smoked hams. There was a whole lot of power behind his bends, trills, and trademark "fluttering" vibrato.
I saw BB live and front row and it was amazing. He had such a classy blues show and he was so cool.
Im not sure why youtube didnt recomend this video sooner. Id been looking at B.B. King lick tutorials for a while. But a tutorial by the man himself omg this is amazing thank you so much for the animations too SO HELPFUL!
Glad you found it helpful
What a master of his craft. Amazing.
That was an outstanding video, the breakdown was just perfect. Thankyou.
Dude i really want to thank you. I worked on your 2.5 Pentatonic Scales Approach and now you show me the master of the house of blues to really add the soul when using it.
Fantastic, I've watched BB do this lesson for years but the best thing is your breakdown, WONDERFUL.
Thanks so much.
All BB King 👑 patterns learnt 🎸! New subscribed 2023 🤗
I, too, saw the original video a number of times. However, your breakdown illuminates so much and makes it all very accessible. Thanks for putting this together. Your presentations are amongst the best on TH-cam in my opinion.
What's the title of the OG video
An Amazing GUITAR LEGEND GOOD TO SEE YOU B.B. KING.
This is absolutely outstanding! Your method of superimposing the fretboard is brilliant. It makes it so much easier to see the notes, patterns, and understand the relationships to the blues scale. So much to learn in this lesson. Thank you for all the effort you put into this lesson.
Brilliant stuff-must remember to put my suit and tie on before plugging in again!!!Riley-what a player-you can hear him in hundreds of modern players-totally distinctive-and what a gentleman.
I love this channel!
You’re a hero for doing all this hard work ! Thank you 🙏
WOW!!! From the Heart here, I Thank You for making this available!! I mean as a 55 year old that initially began "jammin'" back in 1979, this is the very first opportunity that I personally have ever had to view and then literally study within such depth and detail
From the heart, a sincere Thank You to both You AND BB King!!!
A_N
Thank you!!
Bro this kind of effort you put on the lesson shouldn't even be free but you put it out there. You're a legend! Hope you get more subs!
Thanks so much. I've watched the original video many times but wasn't exactly sure which notes Mr. King was playing.
Same
Same as me
same bro
Wow! The amount of work, passion (and strings! LOL!) you put into this lesson is phenomenal. Thank you.
Man, you are doing an amazing job with these videos, thank u so much!
I'm from Mississippi it was in the air growing up the cultural of the SIPP
Gary I must commend you on this, I seen this video I love it, it's the Gospel of BB I call it you have as clearly explained with amazing detail, eventually when things get better, you might see me again on Sunday night or afternoon , this lesson is golden, really appreciate the hard work you put into this ,
Probably one of the best guitar instructional videos on all of youtube. It's an absolute masterpiece.
All I can say is thank you. I have watched so many of these guys talk about BB King and try to show what he is showing but you made it so easy to follow. Dude keep pumping videos out, you will have the most subscribers. I am in San Diego and if there is anything I can to help you let me know. I really appreciate what you have done. All I can say San Diego has the best weather in the world, if you ever come out here I love to meet you. Thank you once again. No joke.
Thank you so much Shawn!
Every time I get stagnant with my music, I go back to the Blues! I think it's kind of humbling, to tell you the truth! "Everyday, I got the Blues"!
🌎✌️🔀🎶
Love this format Gary
I can’t imagine the time that went into this animation. And the editing. It’s not especially hard stuff; this was a series of VHS tapes released when I was starting playing guitar in my teens and it came with a little “transcription” tabs pamphlet that was partial at best. BB’s best, fiery and advanced playing days were behind him at this point. He was in his “play vegas casinos” point in his career. His mid 1960s and early 1970s fire were gone, but, he aged like a fine wine 🍷 and the IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING YOUR SCALE TONES AND MELODIC INTERVALS cannot be overstated. You’ll never be able to express yourself clearly on guitar if you don’t understand and be able to aurally recognize your scale tones.
See how the teacher in this video changed the riffs to make them his own?
That is PRECISELY how to be a riff generator.
Yeah it’s hard work. So get to it!
thank you!
It’s really like…. a diamond in the rough to find this kind of content on YT. Always so impressed with this channel! (& grateful!) 🙏🏻 I’m going to have to stock up on a heck of a lot of strings for this one though…😭🤣😆
I remember after I got out of the Navy in the 90's seeing a blues festival on tv, I think it was Albert King on flying v with a broken string.He played on and didn't miss a beat.🎸😊
Incredibly valuable lesson. Thank you, Gary. You are a gift to us learners.
I bought a new Gibson 335 today..... and after watching this vid.... i asked the shop to string it up with 008 Ernie Balls.... sure makes life easy .... thanks.... busted nuttin yet....
These videos help me so much..As a beginner I have days that I just wanna learn and hear myself make some music and feel good about my playing..These help so much. I know very little about theory but I can copy and attempt..I feel like I'm learning better
Have fun and enjoy the process! 🎸
BB was really sophisticated ! Great player👌🏼
Your videos are very cool and revolutionary! I hope you'll do more! Expecially for jazz players (but also fusion and shred)... So cool dude! I imagine an app like so... Will be amazing!
Hey thank you. I appreciate the effort that you did. I am recovering from a coma and I am learning how to do solo's on the guitar. I know how to play rhythm like a champ but now I am trying to learn to solos. I appreciate what you have done. I am not working but when I get back to work I plan to give you some money. I appreciate what you have done. You should keep on promoting your videos because what you have provided is priceless. Thank you very much.
Just amazing. Thank you so much.
AWESOME VIDEO! Is there a greater teacher of blues guitar on TH-cam? NO! The tab is excellent. You get 5 stars from me!
Thank you for this wonderful lesson. I was 15 minutes into this video and broke already 2 E strings on the Fender Strat.... I grabbed my 335 with 10's and no string brake.... I think this has something to do with the scale length . It's easier to bend on a Gibson then on a Fender in my humble opinion. I subscibed to your wonderful channel!
Thanks Marco!
It's to do with the difference in string tensions relating to Fender vs Gibson style guitars.
Scale length & he uses light guage strings.
Schon/King/Berry/Satriani, all are stellar.
That’s some phenomenal work !! Thanks for this amazing and helpful video, love your channel!! 🙂🎵please, don’t stop!
Cheers from France 🇫🇷
I just learned this purely because of how you made the video. Thank you for helping so many people learn guitar in a way we understand
mission accomplished! Thank you!
Wicked mate 👍🏻
You are a legend.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
So much for the belief he didn't have any idea what he was playing.
😂😂😂 for anyone to believe that about a professional musician is just dumb.
OMG - Ive watched a few of these and I just now noticed the color coded fingers.... Mind blown!!! Thanks for putting these out there!
This is my new favorite TH-cam channel for learning guitar! the animated tabs are extremely helpful for the visual learners. I can usually hear what notes people are playing when transcribing songs, but it can sometimes create a whole other (sometimes rather extensive) process of finding out where on the fret board they're playing them and how that ties into the overall flow of what is being played. Also, sometimes if your guitar tone is too different from the person you're transcribing, it can make it even trickier in ways one may not expect.
I will say that BB Bends are substantial but not anywhere close to justifying 3 broken strings in one hour. That isn't normal even if you were doing 4-5 semitone bends which would cause maybe one breakage per hour at most, but even that's a bit of a stretch (pun not intended). I do BB bends all day on several of my guitars and I don't think I've ever broken a high E string when doing so. There is likely something that needs addressing with your guitar. I would first check the bridge saddles, nut slots, and tuning posts for burrs which is the likely culprit.
Thanks Anthony!
This channel has advanced me as a guitarist immensely! And I just discovered it a week ago. Waiting until the beginning of October to join your patreon! Incredible work my friend!
Great to hear! thank you!
I wonder how much string tension has to do with him bending when he doesn't need to. Different strings do sound slightly different even on the same note because of string gauge and tension. Wonder if this is why he bends. To add that extra bit of tension on the string that adds a bit of tone difference.
Thank you for doing this. BB is one of the greats. What you have created here is a substantial contribution to music education.
Great Channel great lessons
I have watched the original video so many times, but this is different level. Thank you.
Why is this not blowing up?~?~ I mean there is no one doing this and it is absolutely brilliant! Thank you Sir you are a Gift!
i cant tell you how much i appreciate this video, im just a kid who's recently into blues and this video has help me a lot
This video is like one of those gifts you never forget. The fretboard display is just a dream come true. I would love to uncover Hendrix Double Stops with such display. Thanks!
watched BB's turorial on youtube trying to decypher note by note...its was a welcomed surprise you did a vid on this, great work as always
i canrt get over the fact that you actually made this. mad lad.
Best neck animations ever! Just the first 3 min's is all a veteran theory geek but fledgling blues player like me needs to "get it". It's all in the chord tones and phrasing here. THANK YOU....!
Wow! Great break down! Thank you for putting this together and sharing...B.B would be proud!
Well ... I am totally blown away .. by how this study integrates virtual all relevant objects including the musical gearing in such a plain way .. what a present . Big Thanks from Germany :)
thank Aurelio!
This video really unlocked something in my blues playing. Watching a master, and getting to play along thanks to your transcription and lesson. I’m sold, consider me a new patron.
thank you!
One of the best TH-cam videos I have ever seen. Made even better thanks so so so so so much.
That animation was the best lesson i ever had. Wow.
Magnificent works to get together a piece of BB KING'S entire talent for the public to learn.
Amazing breakdown of a classic BB King video. As others have said, I think this is the new standard for instruction videos of this kind. A well-earned subscription.
I cannot tell you how much these videos have helped me to get through the pandemic. Please please please consider doing Johnny Winters or Freddie King. Thank you again.
Wow I wish I had something like this learning guitar by ear 20 years ago. My ear is good but having this saves a lot of time
Wow! your graphics are flat out amazing! People don't realize how much time this sort of stuff takes.....man you even had BB's finger tremolo in time! Well done, fantastic video!!! Im a subscriber for life....
thanks for recognizing that, Bret 🎸 I appreciate it
Amazing video!!! One of the best I've seen on B.B.'s style.