Blues Guitar Solo Lesson Switching Between Major And Minor Sounds With The House Pattern 

Light bulb 💡 lesson my man !! Brilliant

Great lesson, it shows you can jump from minor to major without moving all over the neck.

Nice perspective. Never thought of it that way.

OK! i finally got it ! after 3+ years doing all access and even on a challenge i finally get it. Man i am a little slow but i do catch up ..thanks again Griff

Yeah man! Very illuminating.

Realizing the major / minor third was a revelation. And learning that playing major over the 1 ,minor over 4 and 5. . Well thats changing the way i play lead. Im still struggling but there is purpose to my note choices. And im learning to feel the changes. I encourage people to stick with griff .

Once again, you delivered this very clearly. It has reinforced my understanding on the BB house.

Great explanation and demonstration. I feel like I get it, or at least enough for me to get around. Thanks. I was thinking of the House. Like CSNY said, “ Our House, is a very very very fine house.”

Such a great instructor

Thank you for posting this again Griff. I am able to internalize it now finally! Great stuff!! 👍😁❤️🎶

Good stuff. Very concise lesson.

Thanks for the tips! A great help!

Absolutely Amazing!!

Great lesson! Thanks.

Hi Griff, Fairly new subscriber here. Thanks for posting this one. Great stuff!

Nice trick ! And this corrects my mistake the BB king pattern is the top of the second box while this is only true for the "minor" version with the third finger on the root.

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Excellent work !!! Now the question is: WHEN do we go to Major, and when do we go to minor? Minor only on the 4 chord? I know that minor seems to work all the way through, so I guess using Major is the defining quality here. Sounds great and makes sense, just curious if there are more applications. In any case, I really appreciate your time and attention !!!

Both patterns are known everywhere as “house” patterns, with the “minor only” house pattern known as the Albert King box.

thanks , I watched it a week ago but recall the example used blues in A , and the house shape visually works nice, showed a method of soloing over all the chords without moving around too much, staying mostly in the one central spot, ending up with Aminor, Dmajor and Eminor that alot of players do to conserve motion observing the top of the fret for Major house it is on a Dmajor shape so this is bit of harmonic shift for Amajor using the Dmajor pentatonic(shape 2 but on D), and the A minor house is on the root harmony, so seems to be that the Amajor house is actually on the minor side in the E harmony and Major side on the D harmony, making it a very neutral choice of anchor locations for the example, (might be major or minor depending on the harmony considered), opens up alot more soloing extensions harmonically between shapes 1 and 2, I will check out

I wish I would’ve known this about 15 years ago lol

Playing a major Blues is much more difficult than playing a minor blues, but this lesson helps you solve that problem. So really there's two BB boxes or houses of Blues there's a minor House of Blues and there's a major House of Blues. In a Major blues progression you use the major house on the one cord and the minor house and pentatonic on the the 4 and 5 chords. Otherwise you have to change keys to match every cord in the progression and keep in major, which is difficult, because if you play the wrong note on the four and five chords it's going to sound awful. In a minor blues progression, just use the minor pentatonic and the minor BB box over all the 1, 4 and 5 chords. The difference between the two boxes is which finger is on the root note. So minor blues progressions are much easier to solo over.

Watching your good video and then looking at your upside down “blues house” pictured is a challenge because your guitar neck is running in right direction on video and your numbered guitar neck sheet is running to the left ( numbers going lower to left Sb going to right , following your guitar neck if you will ) , aspiring guitarist will get confused , just saying.