3 Blues Licks From The Three Kings

Here's the next episode of Three-For-All with 3 Blues Licks From The Three Kings. Without question, Albert, B.B., and Freddie King not only shared a last name, but they equally inspired and influenced an entire generation of future blues and rock stars, including names such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Robert Cray, and countless others. The massive respect and influence that these three legends of blues music carried throughout their lives/career and beyond, is the stuff of legends and this lesson focuses on revealing a little of their magic and signature sounds.
This lesson features a sample lick/phrase from each of these blues guitar masters, and aside from the specific ideas being shared, we're also taking a look at both "Albert King's Box" and "B.B. King's Box" which are so frequently heard in plenty of blues, rock, country, funk, jazz, and more, but there seems to be a certain level of mystery and mystique surrounding these extremely useful, yet misunderstood elements found in the historic playing styles of both of these blues legends.
Whether you're a fan of Albert, B.B., or Freddie there's plenty of interesting and expressive things floating around in this lesson, it's just a matter of practicing these ideas until they are comfortable to play and eventually become another batch of licks/tricks hiding up your sleeve (so to speak). There's a lot you can learn from this trio of blues guitar giants - so dig in!
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[@tat2dlukydevl]

Great Video!! I love all the King's, but Albert is my favorite.. + he smoked a pipe.. Thanks for sharing..peAce

[@lovelessjams2720]

Your lessons have the most clarity of explanation vs anyone else teaching on KZbin. I love and appreciate all the additional tidbits of background info and history you include within your delivery as you provide examples for us. Very knowledgable guitar dude

[@uncleremus5046]

Alberts bends & tone were great & so powerful!

[@barryhaynes103]

those three players got so much mileage outta 5 notes ... they really brought emotion to the guitar in a way that has been so imitated by those who came after ... and established a manner in which it made it very cool to listen to the blues ... "I'll play the blues for you" is one of my favorite songs ... Frank Marino did a cover it years ago which is a must listen to for all blues fans ...

[@breathtimebreath4934]

David Brewster thank you to the infinitive power!!!!!

[@RogerThat902]

Great lesson. It's always amazing to me how many people have different favorites of the 3 kings. The answer always surprises me too. I'm personally an Albert fan, but it's impossible to deny how each one had a special sauce the other didn't have and it makes it such a treat to listen to them individually.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

All these whole + half step bends really makes you appreciate that SRV used a 13 guage high E string. When I worked in a studio we always used them too, and you really need to have serious callouses to pull that off. And yes, it really hurts.

[@briandavis9921]

Absolutely! THE THREE KINGS, love how Freddie would switch his guitar strap to the other shoulder, so cool

[@neodog1]

Love all three Kings but Freddie is and always will be my fave, so much energy and swagger!

[@bklyncosanostra]

Freddie King was unarguably, hands down THE BADDEST DUDE TO EVER PICK UP A GUITAR who ever walked planet earth!

[@MaxTor2112]

Though he was a bad ass blues guy BUT best ever to lay hands on guitar.? Com'on man!

[@Dan-zq5wt]

@@MaxTor2112 agree, but he was still a badass!

[@timkritzer134]

You knocked this one out of the park! Thanks.

[@rudiger1337]

Love me some blues

[@Blue_3rd]

Great fun, this lesson! I’m a big Gary Moore fan, so it’s essential to listen to the three Kings, especially Albert and Freddie 👍

[@EarthAltar]

Albert and B.B. were great, but Freddie had that groove that's hard to come by. Notes flying by your ears like melted butter.

[@primolandia]

Awesome lesson, please do more Freddie style! Its everything you talked about plus an unique swing ;) I always heard my dad's records, blues, rock and everything very heavy guitar related... Eventually I had my metal, grunge and prog rock journeys, but the blues always gave me complete musical satisfation. Its the meaning perfectly allied with the feeling.

[@frankanastos9266]

Great lesson breakdown on these 3 Blues giants, I would like to see you do a lesson on Michael Bloomfield or Mick Taylor with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. They are 2 of my favorites. Thanks David!

[@keithraaum9559]

I second Mick Taylor!

[@BCBlue]

@@keithraaum9559 Yes, More Mick Taylor.

[@Icedsymphony7]

You missed kerry king just kidding your are phenomenal as always dave

[@roberteberhart1139]

Chew my fingers up...I love it😁

[@shilesw5324]

Love these lessons. A Marc Ford lesson would be great. That guy should be more known.

[@rgbrin]

ah yes....a blues lesson...very good Sir!!!...do more Blues lessons my friend....

[@rjsilvas8597]

Honestly, it’s been two days, and I’m still stuck on Albert King. I get STUNNED whenever he plays, or in this case, watching a breakdown of his licks. I start making guitar faces at my screen and I immediately realize, I’ve been schooled. That’s how you give yourself completely to your instrument-and you become one with your guitar, and it becomes one with you.

[@MikeCindyWhite]

Best player/teacher on You Tube Dave, thanks for all you do! That last Freddie like was so tasty.... I hear so much Jimmy Page (the reason I've been playing for 30+ yrs.) in there I gotta listen to more Freddie! As always thanks again bro 🎸🎸👍

[@crisprtalk6963]

Great video David!

[@stephencrane391]

Brilliant video once again, so erudite. More blues craziness please - there’s none more crazy than Johnny Winter.

[@thrakd]

You need to get a shirt like Freddie with those big ass collars!

[@-jeffk3339]

One of your best lessons to date. I really appreciate the breakdowns of styles/licks. Blues lessons for weird times in the world. More blues please sir!

[@VoyageMonkeyTravel]

My playing got better after going back and learning from these three players.

[@anthonyrampino4992]

This is the best episode you've ever done keep up the great work

[@hakankillberg6043]

Great video and 3 awsome bluesplayers and so are you David as always. I find this so interesting this musical journey from the Blues to rock and so on. I wonder if you have ever thougt about doing this journey with different players and different players in some kind of historical way/pattern. I know this is a lot of work but i have never seen anyone doing this in i historical context. Maybe how rock developed from blues and so on with other genres with focus on a few player that made this journey how they developed over time, changed style and how new kind of styles invented. But always as a time travelling in genres. Its hard to explain but i think you understand what i mean. If someone can do this its just you David who master every genre of playing and with that interesting context on every player you show us. Its ofcourse a hard job to do but i just lift this subject when i have never seen anyone out there cover this in a historical/right time journey. Most youtubers jump between artist/eras/genres. Just a thougt. Keep on rocking you are the best David 👍💪👏

[@NickBurnsworth]

I love them all but Freddie was on a whole different level in my opinion. I listen to a lot of Freddie and have gotten a lot of inspiration from him.

[@BandOfJimis]

Thank you man really dig your playing

[@frankiedonofrio5438]

Love the Blues Lessons!!!

[@bmoraski]

Love it.

[@ollid.5590]

It is now clearer to me how the 3 Kings influenced British Rock of the 70s. A lot of useful information and context. Thank you. I hope you can pick up again the example of Ritchie Blackmore and show how he left this blues-based path though and incorporated more neoclassical elements.

[@mobetterx1110]

Amazing lesson sir! Thank you

[@wulfenii64]

We try to forget 80s pop music in this house. LOL Great video.

[@zeus-bx9xw]

man i love your lessons...sweet

[@jimmiller2270]

You tell this was going to be good just by the amount of sauce put on that box at 4:32.

[@CVGuitar]

Hell yeah these guys all freakin rule!

[@waynegram8907]

Jimmy Vaughan idol was Freddie king but I hear more of Ike Turner licks in Jimmy Vaughan playing. It looks like Freddie king used more chromatic notes with the style of Ike Turner blue playing. Freddie King doesn't have a signature sound of his bending but the blues playing sounds to me like Ike Turner.

[@gavinb144]

1st? Is that a thing? 😂 Can’t wait to learn the licks! 🤘

[@donaldmccoy49]

like you, as a child, I heard all 3 constantly...maternal grandparents played their albums all the time...

[@indyvin]

I think you're right about Freddy. I can hear more Freddy influence in the great players you mentioned.

[@garygunnell19]

Awesome as always Dave can you do some Johnny Winter this stuff I grew up on👍

[@kirk-b-patrick]

I'm new to the channel. Love it! Nice shirt too!

[@jameslee2943]

Always lots of fun to be had with a Big Legged Woman

[@scottwilson6138]

Great lesson Any chance of a lesson on U2, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden or some Australian bands like INXS, Midnight Oil, Radio Birdman

[@lloydabrams5241]

Jerry Garcia said Freddy King was the biggest influence, Clapton too. Garcia also has said ,The Cream was the best concert he ever saw!

[@paulcooper5748]

Love it can you do one on albert collins.

[@azbluesdog]

That last Freddie lick might has well have been early Clapton. Great lesson!

[@ganazby]

Great lesson. Thanks, David. Small suggestion: would you consider using a freeze pedal, in order to demonstrate how these licks (or any licks/scales) function over the chords?

[@teresathomley3703]

Brewster, you're a good 'un.

[@brianshank1419]

David, do you have any lessons on how you form the IV and V blues chords, like in this lesson where you go from the C7 to the F7? Couldn’t figure out the F7. Outstanding lesson as always! Thank you very much.

[@larrythomas7512]

KING BLUES told Keith Richards it's more than 🎶 notes ain't it...Hey David, Let em know ⚠️ Your still One of the Best Instructor,s ... Txs ⚠️ multi-purpose Pat's on the Back... 🤕 OUCH 👑

[@rockysphere]

I second Rory Gallagher, and I might throw in Mike Bloomfield as a suggestion.

[@boufd2008]

I noticed the guitar shop pic on the wall. You should do 3 Jeff beck licks.

[@brucelundgren100]

GOOD STUDY, BUT YOU are forgetting about Earl King, who was a very talented player as well, following on Guitar Slim's style but a major writer of new tunes that became super successful like Lonely Nights, Come On, Big Chief, a lot of the old New Orleans sound too good to forget.

[@johnfurlich5157]

Some Rory Gallagher would be great!

[@Blue_3rd]

There is a Late Night Lessons on Rory 👍

[@buddylobos5277]

Steve Cropper recorded & produced Albert. He said once when Albert took a bathroom break, he went into the studio with a tuner to see what the hell tuning he was using. Steve said it was NO tuning. It was all over the place. C# Ab F# No logical key. He thought what??? He went back into the booth and said nothing. Said he just figured Albert bent notes until it sounded right to him.

[@fredericadda]

Let’s see this B.B. King box ... sounds fine ... one tone and half, sure ... [snap] that was my first string ...

[@dennisalves4584]

More UFO & Michael Schenker!

[@juanrogelrodriguez8285]

Or it would also be very interesting if you included time markers in the video that would be direct to when you play the licks or chords. That would be great !!. Thanks again.

[@MisterPoppy-sc1sj]

Freddy is the King for me

[@crisprtalk6963]

Elizabeth Cotten played guitar same way as Albert... flipped over no restringing.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Good call.

[@JustRockMySoul]

Is there other rocky songs like Going down by Freddie? All other songs I heard of him so far were way more bluesy.

[@cravertom]

great vid..wish you would have included Peter Green...I'm a peter Green fan....did I mention the mastery of Peter Green?

[@davidhamlin7932]

I also prefer Freddie! The sound grabs me more

[@arturoromero1871]

🤘😭🎸

[@steveinmidtown]

please do a "Texas Cannonball" (Freddie) lesson

[@julianschulz1620]

Don't forget the fourth king: Yngwie King.

[@gillesreuse]

Kyngwie Malmsteen

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Yngwie Malmsking

[@MrFeeny-qv3rz]

🤣

[@Dan-zq5wt]

That last Freddie lick sounds a lot like a Jimmy Page lick. Whole Lotta Love and a little bit like something that shows up in live Dazed and Confused (to my ears anyway)

[@knightfall9394]

You arent wrong, you can hear some bb king and some albert (along with some other guys) in jimmys pentatonic based work. He like clapton & beck was a fan of those guys and you will spot some stuff that sounds like bb and them. Now im not saying jimmy doesnt have licks of his own but you can definitely spot some stuff he picked up and then mutated The ending of the whole lotta love studio version solo i think is more of a bb king move with the bends and note choices he using

[@Dan-zq5wt]

@@knightfall9394 definitely using the bb box

[@HeadbangersLocal]

Awesome lesson🤘🏻. Is there a Nuno Bettencourt video on this channel? 🤔🤔🤔

[@davidhumphries853]

YeH, Freddie had this verve about his playing

[@deanmccaskill5495]

So I made a promise to myself that I don’t watch any of your vids anymore unless I have a guitar in my hand. The other thing is are you offering private lessons these days? I’m very interested if so.

[@tomblaze2]

More Clapton bro

[@rocker8692]

I smoke all them fools on guitar

[@RH-vl2wy]

Freddy King doesn’t use a pick....

[@buddylobos5277]

We called all that '80's stuff EURO-TRASH.

[@juanrogelrodriguez8285]

960/5000 Hello, my friend, I think you should play at the beginning of the video all the chords or licks that you are going to develop in that same video once at normal speed and once at slow speed, since it is very heavy to have to be searching throughout From the video the examples that you are developing, and there are more advanced guitarists and with less time who could hunt down your lesson just to see you play at the beginning of the video once at normal speed, and another at slower speed. I am not saying that the explanations are less interesting, but not always one has the time or patience to watch a 20 minute video to learn some ideas that are spread indiscriminately in a video of that duration, and that do not take more than 30 or 40 seconds to hunt them at a glance and the I love your content and tastes, but I don't have the time to watch so many minutes of video, that's why this suggestion. Thank you and congratulations on your content and playing.