5 Essential Blues Boxes - Lesson 4 Preview - Box 2 (Albert King Box)

[duppydoopy]

do you think Albert King thought of his playing in this strucutured, exact, gobbly gook way?......or he just did it?............probably.......­. he just did it.

[Horroxify]

keep up the free views! you rock

[schoolboyzindanger]

what do you put on your fretboard? and how often o you change your strings?

[mrmrhollingsworth]

very confusing for a begginer. this is in F sharp MINOR

[mrmrhollingsworth]

@mrmrhollingsworth

mate... ur lessons are great. just makes it hard when you dont explain the difference between major/minor pentatonic. Also the dropped tuning makes it extra work to understand

[gr8bluesgtr]

@mrmrhollingsworth It's only hard if you absolutely need everything to be explained in terms of scales. If that's the way you want to learn, these lessons are not for you.

[mrmrhollingsworth]

@mrmrhollingsworth

Just sayin mate. im a secondary music teacher. just that you said it was in F. maybe u could change the title to state F minor pentatonic

:)

[gr8bluesgtr]

Everything I teach is from a parallel scale perspective, not a relative scale perspective (start each scale at the same place, not thinking of the minor scale starting on the VI of the relative major scale).

Therefore, when I say I'm playing in F Sharp it doesn't matter whether it's minor or major, you start what I'm teaching at the same fret. What you actually play changes based on whether the song is major or minor. The IV and V positions will hit the same frets regardless.

[Plimsoul97]

great box but its really much harder to play it like albert .stevies a better guitarist and his playing is more loose. alberts is firm and old school with a trebly tone(am i describing that right lol?)alberts harder to play but man you are a great guitarist. i know i may be young but people like you just discourage me from being a professional

[Disburden]

I like how aggressive your fretting hand is, nice playing!

[paulthapainter]

this video really confused me for a second, the box positions were different than the previous lessons, i quickly noted that you did mention you were playing in f and i went back to the first video and you were playing in A, i was taking notes and tabbing everything so i could study it so this caused a problem for me. I did however tab everything in the key of A and make a note that the positions depended on the key you were playing since that would change the position of the root box.

[23skeedoo]

Great lesson, nice capture of the spirit of Albert King

[MrPlainsteel]

what amp do you use?

[MMBforlyf]

Hey, awesome video!! I'm a convert from srs classical guitar and not so serious punk/rock outfit to the blues nd alrdi have a fairly good idea of the fret board but your videos srsli make a lot of difference in understanding how blues is made to be felt. I can't say it enough mate awesome videos, keep on going! Do you think you could give me a couple of tips on how to take on the john mayer style?? Because I know his idol was stevie, and so is urs. Was wondering if you could shed some light

[onerelic]

Hi, i think you might be able to fix that with pro tools, j/k.....

Very nice super dark neck on that grosh strat...sweet, brazilian RW?

...what pickups are you using under the pickguard of the strat in this video?

[shiftymeister]

what kind of strings are you using? I have like .11 strings

[clarkewi]

great stuff! I love Albert King. Got to see him play once. His hands were huge.

[john1pimp1archer]

@clarkewi lol : his hands here huge" haha

[TheFenderplecre]

awesome lesson. keep them stevie snacks comin'. mighty tasty!

[patdel92]

yo would you be able to do a lesson on settings for certain tones(drive , presence, treble etc)? on humbuckers and single coils?

[lebroucke]

About the tunning. It's a little bit of all the above but the main thing is that Eb gives a much fuller deeper sound that just marries great with single coils ( also great for power trios!! )

BTW great vid!

Cheers

[jmjunkie]

Another awesome lesson, thanks!

[ravello99]

Nice work. The grid overlay are really helpful.

Question: Do you know why SRV used Eb tuning? Was it more a vocal consideration, or was it to have a tad less tension on the strings to facilitate all the bending?

[oozoozoozooz]

I think it's a litle of everything you said, but like I've seen in another video, the tuning as a lot to do with the tone SRV had.

[zyruemusic]

Thats a GREAT question....I think he did it as a respect to JIMI HENDRIX because he played in Eb tuning as well...

[TwilightsLastGleam]

I think it was to release the tension on the neck from the .12's.

[rubberrev0lver]

id say both.

[mokogintaz]

Thank You Mister ! You are clever !

[markky21]

Yes, it's nice WORK men!!! Im from Poland and so as You love the SRV style and music. You help me a lot to learn this style. Thx

[antiemogod]

hey uhh that box just looks like the end of the second position on the pentatonic am i right?

[TrueMusou]

This is great stuff.

[GuitarTec5150]

Man I can't Thank you enough. awesome lesson.

[martyjarvis]

great- Many thanks

[Minekom2007]

this guy is amazing i love his vids

[BadNewzBlues]

Good Stuff!