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TJHarrison525217th April 2015Albert makes us look like posers... ok now flip your strings upside down! Cool lesson! m/
- flashgordon20th August 2009
Great lesson and there are mistakes written into the tabs. -not a huge problem.
Also would be helpful if the tabs showed which chord the riff was being played over. 
Ivan Milenkovic10th May 2008Thanks man, I'm glad I could help, and glad you like them!
Cheers
berko10th May 2008wow, man i just love your lessons
i love this lesson
i love the bb king one (btw where's the 3rd "king" Freddy? :-))
i love you macedonian lesson
i love the pentatonic workshop
the ones with wah-wah
and even you restringing tutorial, man
keep them up, and the ultra-high quality editing as well!!
cheers- Ivan Milenkovic18th March 2008
Thank you very much!
@Egmont 1963
Those are note length values for example S like sixteen, Q for quarter etc. - EGMONT 196316th March 2008
HI IVAN
WHAT WILL SAY THE S S S S Q S S E OVER THE TABS
THX
UDO FROM BELGIUM 
Luciana Segovia15th March 2008I loveeeeeee the bluessssss...
while you was playing your lesson I was improvising with my voice.
coooooool
Carlos Carrillo14th March 2008good job!!!!
thanks
Fran14th March 2008Awesome lesson full of great licks as usual
Thanks Ivan!- Ivan Milenkovic14th March 2008
Thanks a lot guys, my intermediate/advanced blues lesson with lot's of blues licks is almost ready too!
kyldeee14th March 2008This is what I would call blues
Great lesson Ivan.
Juan M. Valero14th March 2008excelent and cool lesson
- inertia14th March 2008
killer licks, definitely going to learn this lesson
Ivan - please keep making more blues lessons, you rock man 
Marcus Siepen13th March 2008great lesson, love it!
- Ivan Milenkovic13th March 2008
Thanks a lot!
Marcus Lavendell13th March 2008Now that's what I call blues!! Awesome Ivan!
Gerardo Siere13th March 2008Great solo, great sound, great job.
JukeboxHero12th March 2008A wise man once said, "Blues is the roots everything else is the fruits." Great lesson Ivan.
- Ivan Milenkovic12th March 2008i just have one noobish question, well i've watch most of your lesson. But when you post out the scales i get confused. Because there can be so many notes, like the A dorian mode for instance. In what order do you pick them?
Even those scales you put here, f# minor blues scale and f# pentatonic blues scale makes me go nuts... Appreciate some help here please
Well it's not the order, you just have to know the scales in order to play it, that's all. And by knowing I mean to know the correct note pitch that corresponds to a place on the fretboard. For simple licks from albert you can choose only F# minor pentatonic lesson, and if you look more closely, minor blues is with just ONE note added, so it's the basically very similar. It all revolves around pentatonic scale. 
Hisham Al-Sanea12th March 2008great blues Ivan ...nice feelings
Alejandro Pinero12th March 2008Oh!! Good lesson!
Very nice sound!
SLASH9112th March 2008Really cool
Gabriel Leopardi12th March 2008Great blues lessons Ivan! Nice sound too.
- Martin la guitarra12th March 2008
i just have one noobish question, well i've watch most of your lesson. But when you post out the scales i get confused. Because there can be so many notes, like the A dorian mode for instance. In what order do you pick them?
Even those scales you put here, f# minor blues scale and f# pentatonic blues scale makes me go nuts... Appreciate some help here please - Ivan Milenkovic12th March 2008
Thank you very much guys!
Siggum12th March 2008Great lesson Ivan, you clearly got the blues
Bogdan Radovic12th March 2008Another great blues lesson!
Pablo Vazquez12th March 2008Wow!! Great Lesson!
Toni Suominen12th March 2008Great as always Ivan!
- Carlos Carrillo12th March 2008
good job Ivan!!!!!!
thanks 
Joe Kataldo12th March 2008Great Lesson
Nemanja Filipovic12th March 2008great lesson man...
The Uncreator12th March 2008Great lesson, You did the legend justice!
Muris Varajic12th March 2008That's the one!
Nick Kellie12th March 2008nice lesson dude!
Danilo Capezzuto12th March 2008Great lesson
Tuubsu12th March 2008Yeah, this is what blues should be!
Is that a pick holder on the "upperside" of your guitar?- Martin la guitarra12th March 2008
YEEESSSS, i love your blues lesson! keep em coming
Dejan Farkas12th March 2008Great licks Ivan
Trond Vold12th March 2008Great lesson
I really like those bends
Kristofer Dahl12th March 2008I love it Ivan - to me, the blues has always been the number one inspiration for phrasing and tone!
Everyone should give this a go regardless of their musical preferneces!
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Hi guys, welcome to another blues lesson! :) In this lesson we will cover some of the most famous licks of the great blues legend Mr.Albert King. Albert was by his Gibson Flying V Guitar, left hand playing and upside down string layout. He played with his fingers too, but in this lesson we will do his licks using a pick. You can use fingers if you like to get that rich fat tone.
Now, I've noticed that some people have problems when going back to the root in a solo. This "skill" so to speak can be learned by doing some nice licks when going back to the root, and Albert does this all the time, so I purposely put many variations of these in here too. You will find them quite useful when playing your own progressions I'm sure.
It is a simple lesson using mostly minor pentatonic scale - major position. In this position we will be doing some nice slides and bends using our index finger - just like Mr.Albert King. The tone we are trying to have is rich, warm, overdriven and fat humbucker tone.
This lessons contains:
- Blues style of Albert King
- Lots of great blues licks
- Index Finger Bending
- Slides
- Syncopation
Settings used:
Humbucker (better is neck but i used bridge with tone rolled off), pro co rat drive pedal emulation, fender blackface amulation, slightly overdriven, a touch of reverb.
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
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