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.

The History of the Guitar

Steve has posted an excellent and comprehensive history of the guitar in two parts over at Guitar 24/7. If you’re at all interested in the beginnings of the guitar and in particular how the first electric guitar was developed, it’s well worth checking out.
Steve does a great job of detailing the work done by George [...]

Guitar practice exercises: alternate picking chromatic scale

I’ve been catching up on RSS feeds and guitar blogs today and found this great post from Lori Linstruth. It puts a more melodic spin on chromatic warm-up exercises, and there’s a downloadable PDF too.
Guitar practice exercises: alternate picking chromatic scale
(Via Play Like a Girl.)

How to read guitar tab

Learning how to read guitar tab is an essential task for anyone new to the guitar. Most guitar players, unlike say violinists or pianists, are self taught and many have never learned how to read music. For guitarists who are able and happy to learn everything they want to play by ear, that’s not a problem. For the rest of us it makes it very difficult to learn new tunes, or it would if it wasn’t for guitar tab.