Talking about string bends for example, he says Albert had his guitar strung the opposite with the high strings closer to ones face. This put gravity on his side helping with the towards the floor bends. He also tuned his guitar one and a half step down and that helped enormously with his pulling the strings down instead of bending up. I'll have to try tuning down 1.5 steps one day.
BTW Robin Trower tunes down 1 whole step in his guitar instructional Lesson. Curt Cobain with Nirvana alternate tunes a lot too. I theorize that since Albert was this huge guy, like 6'8", with fingers like sausage links that maybe he tuned that way to match his vocal register.
Anyway all kinds of guitar players do what they can to differentiate themselves from one another. Here we are in standard tuning. Since this is Licklibrary I may as well tell you now that there is no pamphlet. But there is 'community' at their site if you can afford it!
In order to hit the ground running with a lesson like this you need to know a few things however tenuously. The note names perhaps especially at the 5th fret since this is in the key of A. Your 1-4-5 bar chords.
The underlying major scale and major and minor pentatonic scales associated with this position. Or to heck with that nonsense and just do the best you can with whatever Albert King you choose.
If you want to play the electric blues that is. Usually I make a big deal about having a musical foundation mostly because, otherwise you cant remember any of this stuff without constant maintenance but in this case, Albert King's phrasing (and also Chuck Berry's by Steve Trovato) is an education in its self.
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