Online Guitar Lessons For Beginners On Acoustic Guitar

Today, we will tell you something about how to play like your idol guitar player. Hmmm, let’s pick one. Okay, how about B.B. King? Is that good for you? Alright. Here’s how to play like B.B. King.

First, the equipment:

B.B. King uses a Gibson, matter of fact, he had been using it for 40 years before Gibson and King officially came up with a signature guitar model in 1982. The signature model was an ES – 335 with a fine – tuner tailpiece, thin semi – hollow body with no sound holes and of course the most popular guitar name, “Lucille”.

He uses signature guitar strings as well, with gauges: .010 .013 .017p .032w .045w .054w

To imitate the tone, do not use any distortion. Juts a clean and warm overdriven tone from your amp will do. B.B. King uses a lot of variation of pentatonic / blues scale or mixolydian scale on his songs. He doesn’t use any fast – switching licks, he’s no SRV but he is very popular with his phrasing and vibratos. The feel of his guitar solos are intense, like he’s feeling every note of it and you can’t just copy that. The way he does the vibrato is also unique as well.

Well, at first, changing the guitar strings is a bit uncomfortable when you haven’t tried it yet but actually it is not that difficult if you know what to do and you know what to use. You should consider this as part of your daily routine as a guitarist, something as natural as cleaning your guitar. So today, if you want to learn how to change the strings of your guitar, I have just the right thing right here that would keep you going and help you start learning this skill. It is a much needed skill if you really want to learn guitar, I mean, who would change the strings for you? Guitar tech? You are still not on that level… so if you want to learn read this. This would save you from trouble.

First, you need to have the following:

-          Pliers

-          String winder

-          Strings (obviously)

-          Cloth

Unwind the string until it is loose. Do it one at a time. This is important so that you wouldn’t break the neck of your guitar.

Next, cut off the string. And then clean the guitar, fretboard and everything using the cloth.

Replace string, use the string winder to wind it up and tune.