M2M Day 139: I got a private guitar lesson from B.B. King, sort of

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For March, my goal is to play a 5-minute blues guitar solo.

As I mentioned two days ago, I’m shifting my focus back to “learning from others”. In particular, I’m hoping to borrow some new musical inspiration from my favorite guitarists.

This morning, I found an amazing series of 10+ videos, where B.B. King is effectively giving a private guitar lesson on camera.

Today, I picked one of the videos, and tried to emulate B.B.’s playing and style. Here’s the video…

And here’s a video of me soloing based explicitly on the above inspiration.

Specifically, I focused on letting the guitar breathe (i.e. empty space between licks) and playing some new chromatic ideas that I learned from the lesson.

Over the next few days, I plan to attack the other videos in the series in a similar fashion.

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Max Deutsch is an obsessive learner, product builder, guinea pig for Month to Master, and founder at Openmind.

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