BB King Guitar Lesson - Louise Jordan's Influence

BB King discusses and gives example of how he was inspired by the great horn player's phrasing and how he incorporates it into blues guitar. Guitar players, listen to horn players, you might learn ya something. BB, Buddy Guy, Son Seals all talk about learning from listening to horns.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• BB King
• Louie Jordan
• Blues
• Jazz

[TUBEMAN192]

damn... *throws the guitar in the trash bin

[Tbonetardis]

2:57 - 'I never sat down and though about it'

BB clearly learned a lot by ear and that's the key for developing an original style. It's too easy these days with note-for-note transcriptions and slowed-down videos etc. It makes for a lot of great technical players, but not too many originators perhaps?

No one was bending strings like BB before him - creating that singing quality.

[dangomles]

Why would people watch Michael Angelo Batio's videos instead of watching this wonderful man?

Can't get it

[anlloyy97]

@75SilentWarrior I know i meant 11s and even those arent as hard to bend as i made it sound, don't know why i put that...

[MrDarinWarren]

I grew up playing 80's hair metal. I didn't appreciate BB until I recently tried learning blues. And I have learned it's much easy to rip scales at speed than to "make music" with just a few notes.

Technical proficiency does not equal......... "music".

[pip0rz]

"So you're actually bending a minor third from the D to the F" BB: "I guess it is" just great :)

[75SilentWarrior]

@anlloyy97 10's really aren't hard to bend at all.

[anlloyy97]

@MPKJOfficial Nope he uses 10.s Damn hard to bend but he just did it made a warmer sound that he prefered

[CptChaos88]

@Tbonetardis

It's not that easy to learn a transcription note by note. if you want to read a jazz solo, you already have to be pretty good or it's a pain and you stop it. listening nowdays is as important as it was back then only that nowdays we have easier access to a greater amount of information (via youtube, the internet,...)

cheers :)

[MPKJOfficial]

@daanborges If I remember correctly, he uses 08's I think. I could be wrong.

[daanborges]

that's some motherfuckin' bend... he makes it look like so damn easy, my 0.11 e string fucks my finger and I still can't do it that effortless

[pmay222]

how far has he got his tongue in bb's ass...?