Lots of good players out there (including you!), yet a great teacher, such as yourself, is somewhat rare... but on top of that all, you've also got an effective presentation set up and have developed a comprehensive syllabus for musicians of all levels, which makes your channel unique and priceless. Wish you lots of RU-vid success, you truly deserve it and many thanks for providing all this to us for free!!
I cant tell you how long i have looked for a video where the instructor talks through what he is playing, shows the graph of changes and scales and his approach. You are a legend. Thanks
Brilliant job! The instruction was top notch, the production values of the video very, very good, and the playing was suitably impressive, yet did not overshadow the purpose of the presentation. That presentation, I would say, was a real gift of love for music as an experience, an art form, and a means of expression. I particularly liked the way you began your demonstration with the simple 5-note box, and then elaborated it to the extended box with blue note, etc. Your illustrations were clear and uncluttered, presenting just the relevant information, and your guidance went from beginner to intermediate, with an experts flash at the end. I can't tell you why you did it that way, but as a teacher/learner for many years I can say that the effect was to create confidence, build expertise, and inspire desire for more.
How does this only have 775 views? Simplest most straightforward explanation of what to do. This should be great to get started with. Thanks for producing this video.
You have made this very very damm easy, finally I can now show off when somebody asks me to play something. Hand down 🙌.can’t even begin to describe the happiness I had playing along with you .
AT 74 I Learnt the Aminor pentatonic and blues scale --by heart 40 yrs ago (all 5 scales) up the neck --thought I knew it all - but the scale you show in the beginning is new to me --as is the KING blues box you discuss---I have to re-learn it all so I will follow your lesson 1 ,4 5 chords are new as well so I am your humble student ---thankyou
It's a wonderful Blues Guitar Lesson what I'm looking for so long time. I'm a just senior beginner of the guitar and are surfing in the internet, but the most of channels are hard to understand and too fast for me. Sorry for knowing your channel too late but at least now I know.
Improvising . I mean, I've played the same riffs for decades and by accident, initially anyways. Am I lucky? Gifted? Na, I try wholeheartedly.make time play every single day of my life. Prolly be living a life of crime without my creative outlets busting out at my seams. Many. Melodic moments make things happen for me . Love it. Play it. Make it. Own it.
Wow, what a GREAT lesson! Mind blowing how versatile moving the bb box to follow the chord changes really is! Most impressive and useful tutorial I've seen on a long while. Thanks .
Absolutely agree with other comments. I’ve seen loads of vids covering this stuff why has this not popped up before now. So clearly explained with theory seamlessly dropped in. Bend the B string a half step which implies the 7th chord. Wow lightbulb moment. Why had I never realised that before?Thank so much for this.
20 years. You know how you "know" something but don't really "know" it? I've played blues before, I love blues, SRV my guitar hero. But it's been locked in my knowledge. I could never play it, I don't know, like the legends, or authentic. It sounds good, but just something about it. Now, in 7 minutes, the light bulb! Not in 20 years of playing guitar has anything made more sense to my stupid brain about the blues! I'm so excited I'm leaving work right now to go home and do this; you have no idea!
This is what it is all about. So glad you enjoyed it and really understood something from it. So much in my life was the same, I thought I understood something for years, then it really clicked and wondered why someone didnt just explain it like this earlier in my life. So much of how I teach is because of this. Welcome to LGW and Keep playing!
Extremely helpful -- really excellent really -- but take note that the King box described here is distinct from the BBKing box or the Albert King box discussed in other RU-vid videos
Take it all with a grain of salt, the King Box, Blues Box, BB Box are all slang terms that loosely translate to pent shapes, where in fact its more about the sound of the music use. The BB sound is smiling blues and Albert King is frowning blues. the BB sound is Major pent over the major chord (A Maj pent over A7) and the Albert sound is min pent over Major chord (A minor pent over A7). Albert King didn't even play in standard tuning so the shape thing is out the window anyways.
Awesome lesson, it feels like I've been hearing this same instruction through RU-vid my beginning 4/5 years now, still consider myself a complete beginner, 4 or 5 years now "trying " to play, but not understanding it til now, thx u, at least I can play over some backing tracks a lil better.
Thank you very much. Yes, I am blessed after retired, I started to learn guitar and yes it is exciting and make my days very joyful. Thank you very much chief. Cheers from Indonesia.
Yes, the little house. This is the way I thought of that pattern around 53 years ago when I first started trying to play lead guitar. It was just a little pattern that sounded like blues, sounded like rock and roll. I had never heard of boxes or the minor pentatonic or anything, just started improving with the little house and beginning building on that and slowly added a few notes here and there. I was playing "modes" years before I ever read about how modes were built and the stupid names of them. Frigging Frigian or whatever. Dorian is just an A minor scale with an F sharp instead of an F. So, why do you a name for it?
You know what? I’ve been looking for a lesson like this for years and watched hundreds of them and absolutely no one explained it! Please, more videos like this - in all keys. That was my idea of a perfect 12 bar blues lessons. Starting with simple solos to more complex ones. And then do it for all keys. I know - that’s a lot of videos but I’m absolutely sure that would be the perfect 12 bar blues solo course. I would actually pay for it.
I liked this video too, and not to be critical but I think you're missing the point a little in asking for all 12 keys. Everything's movable on guitar, and this system insists you know the fretboard notes well (well, at least the roots). So to play in all keys, you need to memorize all the roots, and if you know the roots, you understand where to play in any key. The pattern is exactly the same. It's a holistic view I think would help you to understand the theory better.
@@andrewhanes6974 I know it is moveble. But people want “XY for dummies”. If they want to go to music school, they would have already. Except they usually can’t. You have to start young. This is where all online courses fail: “Oh, do the rest yourself, figure it out!” And I also meant to include different levels of soloing - from the simplest to more complex (not too much). Let’s say - six of them. Yes, that’s lots of videos. But the only useful online course is the one that leaves you without additional questions. And if you can learn from just few of them, good for you. But there are others. If someone practiced and played through all of them, he would really learn it. In school or in private classes you have a teacher to ask all the questions. Here you don’t. So - more details, more examples - better the course.
Holy Guacamole! This is the Holy Grail secret that every rythym guitarist wanting to turn lead is looking for. Brilliant instructions and examples. Liked/Subbed, 👍.
Usually, play less. Play 2 or 3 notes and pause. Repeat them again. If u went up the go down. It's hard to make music out of a scale. Think as if it was vocals, a few notes, let them sustain, think syllables etc. Keep playing!
O, and BTW, I subscribed for the first time to a guitar instruction video producer, after seeing dozens (if not hundreds) of videos by numerous (maybe dozens?) of content producers, some of whom are quite good, and sometimes very entertaining. But this presentation takes it up a notch in value for true usability. Thank you!
Weird, I"ve gone over the theory so many times before but never caught the connection between the major and minor pentatonic scales when playing the 12-bar. Looking forward to checking out more you your video, and hope to see some additional detail.
ferkin brilliant.... hit the G spot (major) right on great lesson.. thx (learnt a 12 bar solo in G from BB... so transposed this to G ..... spot on....
Liked and Subscribed. (You should too. “It helps the algorithm.”) This is how we learn. Simple shapes in context, then you link them together. NOT spending your time learning 5 shapes with 2 octaves.
I agree..holy ship high in transit, blew my mind...great stuff ..thank you...gotta go this IS blowing my mind...beautiful just pulled me out of a ruttttt...you da man..be well
Most of us "learn by doing" ..learning by ear.. you emphasis that very well. Keep it up.. remember "talk is cheap" LOL Keep emphasis on making sounds, using narratives only as needed.
Right when I feel like I'm finally getting a good grasp on playing lead guitar and understanding the pentatonic and blues scales now I find out that I have to play in a different key every time a different note is played!!?? Frustrating!!!!
You don't have to, its just options to sound better. You can always rely on the one pent scale for the whole thing and that works great. But if you listen closely you can hear a lot of guys playing the changes. There are 3 chords in Blues, and you can talk to each of them when you are up to it or talk to them all at once with one scale. Its all part of the process, Keep Playing!
This was a great lesson. It’s too bad there aren’t videos like this that go along with the exercises in their books. I bought the “Chords and arpeggios” book, but there’s no audio sources to mimic. I don’t know about anyone else, but I learn by mimicking sounds, the book only shows where the notes are located and their sequence. It’s like having a book in a language you don’t speak. If you have no reference of how a word is pronounced, how are you ever going to speak correctly. Has anyone else here had the same problem?
"I hope that helped"you said. I've been looking for a video like this for the last three years! So well explained and demonstrated, thanks so, so much.
Damn! Perfect Presentation! ✌️😁💨 + Mad Skills.. My 25 year old mind has been thinking about a cedar top nylon, for these 63 year old hands. Arthritis made me sell the Baby Taylor a few years back. These boxes could open up the board for me. 🪂
I'm surprised with such a small number of notes to choose from that my own licks still sound like ass. Any tips? I could do with a tab of Suke's licks to try and learn from (I'm trying to work them out by ear right now).
Excellent video very educational and completely accessible. Great tool for understanding the basics of blues and soloing. Bravo and thank you again for this tutorial that I recommend. Steve🎸🎵🎶
Great demo of using position 2 for all three chords. Would love to see the same for the other positions. All three chords in position 3, position 4, etc.
