How To Play Like Albert King - Power Breakdown 1a - Andy Aledort

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This volume examines the playing style of Albert King. Albert King is one of the most fiercely individual guitarists that ever lived, in any genre of music. Part of the uniqueness of his style stems from the fact that he took a right-handed guitar and turned it upside down and played it lefty; additionally, he tuned the strings down a full step and a half, making them very slinky and easy to bend, as string-bending is one of the most important elements in his approach.

Albert's style is deceptive in that it sounds way simpler than it really is: he had a horde of stock licks and phrases that he relied on, but he never, ever sounded predictable, always mixing up his improvised riffs with pure inspiration and intensity. He often bent the strings one and a half, two and two and a half steps—known as "overbends"—and would also bend multiple strings at a time, creating a thunderously expressive sound. It is these types of licks that influenced the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy the most.
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[waffen2]

andy, my fingers hurt

[astokes1]

I really think this guy is the most effective, concise guitar teacher currently in the public eye. So good.

[dennisdullea]

Tuning down a step and a ½ will put you in C Albert is said to have tuned to C minor.

That is of course how he was able to play all of his solos on Two strings mostly...He actually played much of his stuff on just the High E string just moving up and down the neck and bending the piss out of the high E string! He could and DID actually bend up to 3 full steps out of his E string...

[dennisdullea]

I run a Blues Guitar School in Texas and Have been Teaching, selling, and making Blues Guitar instructional DVD's for years, and I have never seen anyone get as close as this cat to nailing Albert's stuff. This Cat "Andy Aledort" is REALLY good at this! Texas Blues Guitar dot net Dennis Dullea put in: dennisdullea

[DeathWishskates4life]

A half step is the distance of one fret. Tuning down a whole step would have your low E in D and so on with each string. SRV tuned down a half step - Eb. If he tuned up a half step it would be F

[DeathWishskates4life]

A half step is the distance of one fret. So if you tune down a whole step your low E will be D. SRV tunes down a half step so he is in Eb.

[Bulletwithguns]

i rlly get confused on the tuning: wat do u mean by he tuned down "a step and a half"?

[Qasim311]

STONER!

[johnny4blues]

Amazing stuff!! Thanks for sharing:-)

[mackeymedia]

andy, you are dynamic, THanks for this!

[JohnnyHorton]

Great lesson. Thanks.

[holtzpackerfan]

How come no one has his video on Hard Rock and Heavy Metal? i think im gonna have to upload it myself. hopefully the video doesnt get deleted from copyright infrigment