Learn to Play Like B.B. - Tabs of BB’s favorite licks in G

It’s been a bit quiet round here of late, for which I apologise. I will do better. Back up to speed next week, but in the meantime, here’s something to get your teeth into over the weekend.

You’ll know if you’re a regular, that I’m a huge BB King fan, so what better way to spend a few hours over the weekend than learning a few of the great man’s licks.

Here, courtesy of About.com are some tabs and mp3s of BB King licks in the key of G.

Have fun.

Epiphone BB King Lucille

For as long as I’ve been able to play the guitar, BB King has been my favourite guitar player. There’s something about his style which manages to capture the joy and misery of the blues in one note. And the way he wrings the neck of his beloved Lucille to extract every last ounce of vibrato and sustain from it is sensational.
I’ve been lucky enough to see him live twice. On the first occasion, at the Edinburgh Playhouse in 1989, the theatre was absolutely jumping. Everyone was dancing by the end and there was a couple in front of us who looked they were having a particularly good time.