Albert King Electric Blues Guitar - Andy Aledort Page Two

Back then they didn't have digital guitar instructionals much less a killer one like this. This Albert King guitar lesson is wicked pisser! Stevie Ray Vaughn adored Albert King and and they even cut a disc together.

Now if you have yet to acquaint yo sef with Albert King you can pop over to you know where easily enough but good luck coping any licks! Because, as out intrepid instructor Andy Aledort so readily tells us, in this guitar lesson(s), Albert played left handed, upside down and backwards Can you do that? Some say Albert's Gibson Flying V guitar was tuned to Cm tuning too although that is debatable. Others like Steve Cropper say he tuned to Em with a low C on the bottom. Who are we to argue? Fortunately the lesson is presented in standard tuning.

After studying the techniques presented here and If you have one of his recordings you can play along with it on a standard guitar 'as is' and I recommend you do. Its pentatonic heaven and Albert was a master of such phrasing and of the art of bending strings in torturous ways. He could also sing over all that and wrote the songs.

What's inspiring to me about Albert King is the synthesis between his guitar phrasing mastery and his song crafting and excellent lyrics. He is saying something like OK so now you can play the guitar and not let the guitar play you. That's 'ain't enough! We have to make it in the music business too. So we have to write good songs. A force of nature was Albert King.

Alberts guitar player style is the goal you want to aspire to as you sit there over time practicing. Its not just that you see all the cool many wonderful things that can be done using the same tired old I iv V progressions and pentatonic boxes. You start to say to yourself this guy had something unique to say and he was going to say it whether Mama said it was OK or not. Lucky for him Mama obviously encouraged her son. We should all be so lucky. But we can all aspire to have feeling which is what Albert has a lot of!

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