This Guitar Style from BB King, maybe you a big fan of BB King, you can to get a BB King-style to your Style
The Equipment
B.B. King B.B. King had been playing Gibsons for over 40 years when he
and Gibson officially joined forces in 1982. B.B.'s personal touches on
his signature model include the fine-tuner tailpiece, the semi-hollow
body with no soundholes and, of course, the name that has adorned his
guitars throughout his career "Lucille" with his signature Gibson
Strings: 010 .013 .017p .032w .045w .054w
The Tone
You should not use a distortion on your amp too much. Just use a nice warm
overdriven tone.
The Style
B.B. plays a variation of the pentatonic/Blues scale or the Mixolydian scale.
For this lesson we stick to the A-Minor Blues scale.
All licks in this exercise are in the key of A.
The Technique
B.B. King is no SRV Wink His famous signature comes from the phrasing and the
vibrato (See Lessons "Slides & Vibratos" and "Phrasing").
B.B. King has a special vibrato technique: On a vibrato the only part of his left
hand touches the guitar is the finger which do the vibrato.
B.B. Kings vibrato style
Put your ring finger on the B string on the 8th fret. Your fingertip is
the only part of your hand that touches the guitar! Then hit the string
and "shake" your wrist to get a long and intense vibrato!
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