B.B. King’s Genius demonstrated with an animated fretboard

[charjo]

There’s video on YouTube of B.B. being interviewed about his technique and phrasing. Here this video is embellished with an animated fretboard showing positions and intervals and discussion of theory. I’m a huge fan of understanding intervals so I think this is terrific. It highlights B.B.’s manipulation of the B.B. box, index finger full tone bends, pre-bends, vibrato, mixing of major and minor pentatonic and playing over the changes. One pearl was demonstrating how that B.B. box “house” pattern can be manipulated in various places on the fretboard to cover the changes. Please forgive any promotion of a competitor, I thought the animated fretboard was an amazing tool. Any feedback on whether this could be a useful learning device? I’m going to send it to Brian in any case.
John

[Steve J]

nice! I saved to watch later, I love to see BB do that index finger vibrato , special to BB

[San Luis Rey]

Nice one John! BB is just a delight to listen to. His technique, especially vibrato, is something we would all love to achieve. What he does with a few simple notes is incredible! Saw him live in the mid 70’s and his voice would cut right through you. i will definitely watch this one.

Mike

[Eric C]

This is great, John! I remember this video well, I watched it a long time ago, but it was without this great animation!
Thanks for sharing!

Eric

[charjo]

Exactly, Eric. I got so much more out of this with the animation. I wonder if that’s as labour intensive as it looks?
John

[Bob S]

John,
The Soundslice software has a fretboard animation option, although not as elegant as the one in the video. You can enable it with one of the icons at the bottom of the window.
Bob

[JohnStrat]

John
That is a cool video. When I was writing my reply to Rich F in the previous thread i was thinking I am sure John Charjo will agree on my point about intervals and then I see you have posted this and made a comment accordingly.
This is a very interesting post from BB; The master himself. I have seen some of this before but not with the animated tab.
Thanks for posting and I feel sure Brain will be supportive.
JohnStrat

[sunjamr]

I watched this a while back, and was hugely impressed by the animated fretboard. It seems like what the POW music guy does is take tutorials by famous guitar masters and just add in the animated fretboard. Nothing wrong with that, it helps us all learn better. For example, here he has taken John Mayer’s tutorial on the “pentatonic equator” and added an animated fretboard to it:

Sunjamr Steve

[charjo]

Thanks, Steve, I’ve seen that video. I was thinking this would be perfect for some of Mayer’s posts.
John

[sunjamr]

Also, SoundSlice has an animated fretboard feature which is pretty good for people who can’t read:

Sunjamr Steve

[charjo]

It would be nice if it referenced intervals but that’s too complicated. POW guitar had to reference which chord the intervals pertained to and that’s what was great about the POW video. Don’t think that Soundslice feature would be too useful to me.
John

[Billy]

Hmmm great post and share John, I’ve been watching POW for some time now, one of the better youtube tutorial out there imho.
I would urge everyone to subscribe.

..Billy..

[Luis A]

Pow Music is good. I like it a lot and it has great stuff.

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