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

http://www.steviesnacks.com - Lesson 3 from "The 5 Essential Blues Boxes". In this lesson I take an in-depth look at the box that I call "The Albert King Box", or Box 2.

The free lesson reviews the structure of box 2, and explains the common uses for each note in this box.

The 34 minute full version goes into more detail, covering topics like
-Hidden notes in this box
-Pickup switching techniques
-Picking techniques
-Call and Response Bends
-3 String Bends
-Walkup Bends

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Music

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• Blues
• Guitar
• Lessons

[patdel92]

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

[clarkewi]

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

[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?

[john1pimp1archer]

@clarkewi lol : his hands here huge" haha

[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.

[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]

@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

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

[mrmrhollingsworth]

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

[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