Thanks! Best of luck. Never too late to enjoy music.

Guitars are great to play even if you like noodling around and they are nice to just look at. Do it!

Pick it up and play! Use the endless lessons on KZfaq. You’ll improve quickly

Didn’t add the fact I’m 67, stopped playing around 1985, family, Job , mortgage all that stuff took up my time, I just started playing again about 6 years ago. With KZfaq I found more then the pentatonic scale, learned to read tabs. Learned they was more than a 1 4 5 progression! Lol, just having fun learning every day

@@graysaw, that's awesome!

LOL! My wife did it. No way can I do that! :)

Wow, thank you!

That's great! Glad I could help.

Welcome aboard!

My pleasure!

Thank you so much!

Thanks Bill!

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

Glad you liked it!

Wonderful!

Yeah, "I Need Your Love So Bad" has been one of my favorites for quite a while. Garry Moore does an amazing version of it too at Montreaux. Just incredible.

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@@MarkZabel Hey - I did a quick search and didn't see a lesson on using double-stops (maybe I missed?). Maybe a good next video?

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You got it!

Thanks for listening

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

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@Zayd Malcolm Instablaster :)

@Abdullah Magnus i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

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Thanks!

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

Cool, thanks! Glad you're enjoying the videos Dirk!

Thanks so much! Yes, it's easy and the few notes work for everything so you can focus on playing something meaningful rather than a pattern. Think about what to say and how to say it rather than, "which notes do I play?"

You bet. Thanks for watching!

Thanks so much Steve! Glad you enjoyed the video.

It's a great one! Have fun with it!

Thanks and LOL!

You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

Thanks so much! Best of luck in regaining full use of your hands.

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Yes, the old rockers like Page and Don Felder used it often.

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Hi Ronnie. This isn't the Albert King box or the straight minor pentatonic. This is a similar pattern to the "Albert King Box", but it's 2 frets closer to the bridge. Gives a much sweeter sound than the edgy sound Albert used.

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Ha ha! Thanks man! Good name choice!

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Thank you for the kind comment. I appreciate it!

@@MarkZabel Herr Zabel im from Germany East side. I have an Onkel his Family name is also Zabel, are you from there back in the day?

You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks! Great one to learn for sure.

Thanks Thomas!

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Awesome, thank you!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks!

Thanks so much!

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My pleasure. Thanks for watching Dean!

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Hope this helped a bit. When I learned it 100 years ago we just called it ... "You know the pattern ... yeah, that one!"

@@MarkZabel your lessons are very well done. I'm glad I stumbled in!

My pleasure! I've tried to continue to pare down the length of the material lately. Thanks for noticing!

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Thanks Bill!

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Thanks!

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Appreciate it!! I'm working on my lighting and trying to follow some of the advice you gave me. At some point I'll need to step it up again, but I felt pretty good about this one. Got that boring black background, but I'm space-limited for the time being.

If you examine the notes, you'll find it's a minor pentatonic, but with the b7 replaced by the 6th. But "the BB Box" is actually the specific formation in the video. The key is that so many of the notes are chord tones, and it works especially well on the 4 chord.

Very often the pattern 2 frets toward the neck from this pattern is called the "House of Blues" or some even call it "The Albert King Box" today.

Yea. This pattern is just part of the 3rd shape from the root position. For ex., if root is C and is on the 6th string 8th fret, then you have this position where root is on string 2(B) 12th fret, so 4 frets (=2 boxes or shapes) down from the root shape. It’s where you have the C shape of CAGED whereas the root position coincides with the E shape (so 2 before). The BB King box for C major is like the open strings 1st 3 fret position on the top 3 strings but taken up an octave. Mark, I think it was confusing when you made it sound as if it’s not a named position. I get what you mean that it’s not any one complete position but it is in the older books along with any 5 position teachings, just using 3 of the 6 strings. Same as the House of Blues is just a 3-string part of a known position. Where house of blues looks Ionian, BB Box shape looks Phrygian. It’s a part of a well-known recognizable shape. Great content, thanks a lot!

Thanks.

Good question. In the key of A, the usual BB Box is from the G-string 11th, B-string 10 and 12 and the E-string 10 and 12. The g-string 9 is also sometimes included. That's the basic area. You could also play it in different strings based upon octave, but the above is the usual one where BB, Jimmy Page, and so many others have used effectively.

@@MarkZabel Thank you sir for answering my question on the BB box. This is something that I am interested in, but I found it confusing when I tried to learn it when I started learning blues guitar playing.

Great suggestion, thanks.

LOL! Love that expression: cheese whiz version!

@@MarkZabel 😀

Yes, that's probably where Gary got it. Plus, for many years he used "Greeny" - Peter Green's Les Paul.

I just played it through using the tab, and listened to the tab as well. Looks pretty good to me.

@@MarkZabel my bad, I didn't realize there were two pdfs. I was scrolling up and down the same pdf. Too early for me.

He bent the 1/2 step to the b7 of the IV chord. Didn't use it over the I chord. So he bent to the C over the D chord.

@@MarkZabel I'm not sure if you made a video lesson about this about using the bVI chord and bVII chord because in blue tonality they often will use the bVI and bVII but these are considered borrow chords in classical music but in blues music its considered the mixolydian key as chord functions bVII. Its not normal to be playing a bVII major chord or bVII7 chord in major keys in classical music but in blues its normal tonality.

Thanks! I either make them myself or buy them ... usually here: www.karaoke-version.com/

You got it!

Thanks! Guitarists so often do things in A or E. (Page and Hendrix) I teach in Bb or Ab sometimes and people go bananas!

You bet. They do fit into a scale, BUT don't think that notes have to fit into a particular scale. Scales are musical tools, nothing more, nothing less. Having said the above, it comes directly from the major scale. If you're playing in an A Blues the BB Box has notes (A, B, D, E, and F#). In the key of A, the major scale is A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#. So the BB Box is the 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 of the scale. Fits directly into the major scale.

@@MarkZabel Thank you Mark, you're correct. Now it makes perfect sense!

Sure.

Great question. Yes, you're confused, and it *is confusing* because of the similar shape. The B.B. Box is not shape 2 of the minor pentatonic scale. It substitutes the major 6th for the flat 7. Then the classic "BB box" position is shown here. BUT, yes, the BB Box for A does resemble the shape 2 for the B-minor pentatonic. (The same for these strings) Here's a short explanation which compares the two directly. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mclpiM6qrNi1g4E.html

@@MarkZabel So it's A minor shape 3, but leaving out the b3 and b7, and raising the b6. Interesting, have always seen the BB box taught as just the shape two extension, but seems this gets pretty chromatic. Any idea why that raised 6 works? Is it better over certain chords? Thanks!

Thanks Matt!

Hi Charles. Sorry for the slow response. Recovering from food poisoning Tuesday night. I offer a number of courses. 1. Blues for the absolute beginner (very, very basic): mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/p/electric-blues-for-the-absolute-beginner 2. 5-T level 1. mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/p/5-t-level-1-launch 3. The rest of them: mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/

What? No way! That's great. I need to link to his video right away!

Okay, I changed a few tags. Thanks! Hopefully I get get some views from his exhaust so to speak. You'll note he's playing a new, fancy 335. Mine's no custom shop model. Got mine in 1982. Made in Kalamazoo! :)

@@MarkZabel I saw his video where Gibson gave him the guitar at the factory

That's the plan. You'll accidentally binge my videos.

It's in the "Mark Z's KZfaq Free" course, 2021. "BB Box - Need Your Love"

@@MarkZabel and of course there it is....right in front of my nose. Thanks Mark and sorry for the bother

@@mediumdun18 no worries!

It's in 2021, Jan-June. Named after the lesson, not the song.

@@MarkZabel Cheers Mark, I found it. Also enjoying your vids.

@@RubberSmuggins Great!

In the description of the video there's a link.

Thank you, Mark.

Interesting. I find most students I teach don't know it. But almost all of them know the usual minor pentatonic box. Thanks for the comment!