5 Essential Blues Boxes - Lesson 6 Preview - Box 4 (The Clapton Box)

[Johnakalazyj]

your guitar is tuned different from standard, its half step down????

[luckyfamilyman]

Great strait forward instruction

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[jeepfunkymonk]

Booooooooring

[gr8bluesgtr]

@jeepfunkymonk Are you referring to my video or your comment?

[Omtaman]

@jeepfunkymonk Best blues lessons on the net

[sakowihe75]

we should jam

[jasonreagle]

Box 4 could also be called the David Gilmour box. I think he riffs there in a lot of songs. Beginning of Shine on You Crazy Diamond comes to mind. Cool lesson.

[petermarlon]

1:55 A Flat??? Am I missing something here???

[xporchmonkeyx]

@petermarlon

Hes tuned to Eb so that's an Ab he played there.

[StringTherapy]

you stated you are playing in A flat but in the video it appears you are in A ....your first bend is G to A so it looks like you are playing out of the A box not A flat .....are you tuned down a half step?

[artdawggy]

Great videos. I've not seen anyone explain the boxes quite this way. Very useful. Thanks!

[TheRealRayJ]

You look like 1980s Eric Clapton in this video. You just need dripping chorus on your guitar and you're good to go.

[btub09]

OH MAN love your lessons !

[sreiter11]

incredible stuff!!!! seriously gonna order a bunch.

just a little note on box 4 that might get you thinking about it a little differently. listen to skynard "i need you". its a blues in Am, C, Dsus2. they use box 4 extensively.

also, marshall tucker cant you see makes use box 4 ...but Toy Cadwell plays it as a major like Dicky Betts would and like Dicky, he also plays the 1 box as the relative minor

[119714450]

Thanks man

[PatRobls]

Hey man, I've come up with some good riffs on these box, but whenever I try to play them over a 12 bar blues I cant fit them anywhere, not over the I, IV or V chord, there always seems to me some conflicting notes... Any tips on when to play this box? over which chords?

[cowboycliche022]

@PatRobls

Make sure that your starting key fits with the starting key of the song you're trying to play along with.

Anthony is just demoing these boxes in A flat...that doesn't mean every song is in A flat. Quite the contrary.

Start with the 1st box in the same key as the song (i.e. if the song is in B major, you'd start the first note of your 1st box on the 7th fret of the low E string, and then follow the patterns from there).

Hope that helps.

[silverguitartom]

I know someone with that exact guitar! It is epic!

[MirrorGallery]

quit rippin on box 4, geez

[gr8bluesgtr]

hehe.... more a reflection on my lack of skillz in this position :)

[Johnakalazyj]

@MirrorGallery fuk u!

[codehendrix]

you should do an instructional of some hendrix phrasings for us advanced guitarists... or rather.... us hendrix fans.. because really... youve gotta be a fan of that single individual... to really enter the advanced zone...

[gr8bluesgtr]

I'll have to dig out my Hendrix cds again, as odd as it sounds, I find his playing style to be WAY different than Stevie's, but I own just as much of his music as any other artist, and I look forward to refreshing my memory on some of his stuff in the future.

[ledzeppelin4485]

yeah i find that too. it seems like hendrix was influenced by the british style of blues more than the texas style blues. maybe thats just me though.

[crizzoesq]

Great stuff, love it. I've never seen a blues guitar lesson so wonderfully analytical.

[grozengyz]

Superb!

[shoulderoforion]

Well I'm lookin' for my cleanest dirty shirt and havin' one more beer for desert...just kidding - have a great day!

[shoulderoforion]

Wow - are you up early or didn't make it to bed yet!? lol

[gr8bluesgtr]

I'm in PA so it's 9:23, guess that's still early :)

[vogelsong2]

Holy she'ite your in PA! I'm in harrisburg, I have to sit down with you or come see you play. Your video's have helped me more than any book on the market. THANK YOU!

[shoulderoforion]

Your lessons are always well presented and informative. My only only suggestion for anyone teaching in e-flat tuning is that once it's explained that the guitar is tuned to e-flat, then always refer to the guitar position and not the key. (We are playing in the "A" - 5th fret - position, not we are playing in "A-flat" [tuning]). I think that eliminates possible confusion. Thanks again for the great lessons.

[gr8bluesgtr]

That's a great suggestion, thanks :)

[bminus88]

thanks so much for posting this stuff! i have become exponentially better since i have started using your videos!

[leftystrat62]

Hey what's this. All black background,fancy shirt,no glasses and combed hair,are you trying to impress your faithful followers?? Just havin' fun.

[gr8bluesgtr]

I'm shooting these lessons in HD now and that camera picks up everything. Figure if people are paying for the lessons I can clean up a bit :)

[leftystrat62]

It's tough being a fasion slave and a guitar guru at the same time,but somebody's got to do it.

[sicktkdchick]

best guitar teacher on youtube

[gr8bluesgtr]

And also the least accomplished musician out of them all probably :)

[TrueMusou]

Well, might be true, might not be....but I have to say, you take the cake for the best g'damn blues guitar instructor on youtube.

[gr8bluesgtr]

It is truly a humbling experience to be helping people learn stuff that has made playing guitar so much fun for me.

[claptonhendrix1]

Thank you!

[gr8bluesgtr]

yeah, slight problems with the first upload.

[jordno]

yay synced