B.B. King Box EXPLAINED For Beginners | Guitar Tricks

Learn how to play the BB King Box on guitar with Gary. It's a very easy box pattern any guitar player can play and is often used as part of a minor pentatonic scale, and can be played in any key. The BB King Box can be used in a number of types of music including rock and blues.

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[grinningintheirface]

Man, people gotta hate. You cleared up a lot of things for me, and opened up a lot of new licks, thank you. I loved the jump cuts, alternate licks, and explanations. Great job, thank you and stay safe.

[SlowToe]

Added to Favourites to watch again and again. Every intermediate guitar player can be improved by this lesson.

[ermonski]

As a metal player who just got hired by a blues band, this helped me a lot to solo with chord changes in a single box. Beautiful

[stopbeingbusy]

Ah ha. This has made everything I’ve learnt about BB make much more sense. Thanks for breaking this down and also offering some insight on where to go next 🎸

[nissenilsson]

Sort of ironic that they are saying that youtube is a bad place to learn guitar but yet they upload here

[paulrhodesquinn]

Great lesson and an excellent explanation of how to link those boxes! Many thanks.

[rhllnm]

Thanks for the diagram, I'm surprised how few instructional videos don't have any visuals other than trying to discern the location of some dude's fat fingers. Subscribed.

[michaelshell]

Great lesson! I really love the colorful and creative palette that you can get out of such a useful hybrid scale!

[delphoe]

This lesson is just what I wanted.
Great!!!

[joshm]

I never checked out the site recently, bombarding me everytime i watch a video!
Have some dignity

[inlandbott]

shouldn’t all the 3rds in the fingerboard notation be flat?

[ianjohnston]

Great lesson - instant sub! Came here having learned a lot from Ricky Comiskey’s channel & you bring a different angle & approach to those same subjects. With help from two complementary channels things are beginning to make some sense for me (after a long long time!) - it’s why Youtube is such a fantastic learning resource. Thank you!

[lamper]

At 2:13 shouldn't that 7 on the second string be labeled b7 it's a G note right?

[freddycracium]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. Well taught!great teach!👍😎peaceeee _yeah!thx brah. 😊👀😎👍👽😉

[neilrobinson]

In the A blues pattern 1 tab, he has the minor 3rd as a major 3rd?? Eh? Other than that good lesson.

[chrisw.]

Having that backing track would really be helpful to me.

[BluesHeavy]

The BB Box is truly just the mixolydian scale minus one note

[johnnytchung]

Yes! You are the right teacher for everyone. All others just talking too much

[vladimirputin]

The part of witch shape is that box?, if I lock bether is the part of C shape in A major pentatonic mixing with E shape A minor pentatonic?!

[Pphoto]

You did a great job explaining the solo on the one chord, but you really glazed over the 4 and the 5.