BB Box Guitar Lesson | 3 Examples | John Mayer Jimmy Page Peter Green

[@jungleballrox]

Not only do I love all of your choices for musical instruction, you are a wonderful teacher! Thanks so much!!!

[@MarkZabel]

Wow, thank you!

[@noam65]

I might pick up the guitar again, after 35 years, because I never had lessons or anyone explain things this way. Thank you.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! Best of luck. Never too late to enjoy music.

[@goingbonzo5923]

Guitars are great to play even if you like noodling around and they are nice to just look at. Do it!

[@graysaw]

Pick it up and play! Use the endless lessons on KZbin. You’ll improve quickly

[@graysaw]

Didn’t add the fact I’m 67, stopped playing around 1985, family, Job , mortgage all that stuff took up my time, I just started playing again about 6 years ago. With KZbin I found more then the pentatonic scale, learned to read tabs. Learned they was more than a 1 4 5 progression! Lol, just having fun learning every day

[@noam65]

@@graysaw, that's awesome!

[@---Wade---]

You remind me of the old TV crime show Dragnet. The cop says to the witness “Just the facts ma”am”. Here it’s “Just the notes man”. Thank you Mark.

[@MarkZabel]

Ha ... I love that. Thanks!

[@atrickyfix701]

Best lessons I've ever seen we all appreciate it.

[@davidtaylor6793]

Thanks Mark this is a hallelujah I’ve seen the light moment for me. I’ve struggled for years by being confused by over complicated lessons trying to understand exactly where the BB box comes from and how to incorporate it into my playing. Your simple explanation that it starts on the root and the demonstration of the bend to the minor or major third solves everything. Thanks again.

[@MarkZabel]

Wonderful!

[@conanthedestroyer7123]

6:35 a great example of the BB box and it has helped me greatly!

[@MarkZabel]

That's great! Glad I could help.

[@leilasoulard5930]

Listening to you makes guitar playing become clear and easy.👍 and also : as a french people, I can understand you perfectly !! You speaks not top fast 😁👍 thanks you vert much!

[@MarkZabel]

Wow, thank you!

[@Daytripper51]

WHOA!!! Look at that opening!!!

[@MarkZabel]

LOL! My wife did it. No way can I do that! :)

[@jamesfarrington9030]

You are a great teacher. You are a great player. You are a great man. Very humble.

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you so much!

[@Old_Sailor85]

Just found your channel. It's great that you get right to demonstrating licks, chord sequences, etc. Less BS, more useful info. Subscribed.

[@MarkZabel]

Welcome aboard!

[@SophisticatedBob]

I'll give it to you Mark, you're a good teacher. No doubt about that.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Bill!

[@gregglashauser4125]

Terrific lesson!! Perfectly paced explanation with cool sounding examples, Bravo

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@markstacey2906]

Fantastic...I just need to make this stick in my ageing brain...Many thanks for sharing...

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

[@craigcooper9967]

Great lesson - well explained - good examples! Anything with Peter Green in it is goodness! Thank you!

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@craigcooper9967]

@@MarkZabel Hey - I did a quick search and didn't see a lesson on using double-stops (maybe I missed?). Maybe a good next video?

[@caravaggio1571]

Jimmy and Peter! Inspired choices, my friend.

[@MarkZabel]

Yeah, "I Need Your Love So Bad" has been one of my favorites for quite a while. Garry Moore does an amazing version of it too at Montreaux. Just incredible.

[@jameskamboouris9561]

Wow!what a cool trick. I can hear the difference between the minor and major with the one note. I'm a intermiate player,it's great!

[@mnbv990]

You sir, are a splendid chap! Thanks very much for all your films.

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure!

[@joachimlachmann3487]

As always: Simple, but eye-opening und effective. Thank you for that lesson.

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

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[@OtaikaValleyFamily]

Hey I just wanted to let you know that I have found your lessons so useful. I am a new guitarist and I am always looking for ways to make solos and to play along to songs. I have found your lessons really easy to understand, and so useful. thanks so much.

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you for the kind comment. I appreciate it!

[@sebdesklich]

@@MarkZabel Herr Zabel im from Germany East side. I have an Onkel his Family name is also Zabel, are you from there back in the day?

[@radman1136]

Luv me some PG. Never covered that one, I'll work on it tonight. Thx Mark.

[@MarkZabel]

It's a great one! Have fun with it!

[@Da_Xman]

Hey Mark, your using Peter Green's soloing on I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD is an absolutely perfect example. Along with BB King's soloing on THE THRILL IS GONE, that solo on I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD is probably one of the greatest and most perfect blues solos ever done. Your tutorial efforts are excellent! ✨❤️🥴👍✨

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@martinbass3060]

Mark you are great! Thanks!

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you so much!

[@ronnieguitar99]

I started playing lead with the Albert King box but 50 years ago I didn't know that or even think of it as a box and had never heard of minor pentatonic scale, it was just a pattern of notes that sounded like rock and roll to me.

[@MarkZabel]

Hi Ronnie. This isn't the Albert King box or the straight minor pentatonic. This is a similar pattern to the "Albert King Box", but it's 2 frets closer to the bridge. Gives a much sweeter sound than the edgy sound Albert used.

[@5150show]

Absolutely brilliant thank you

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

[@eb1138]

Good stuff, Mark. Thanks!

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@nelsonhik]

Great lesson. Thanks!!

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure!

[@sober-southoftheborderever3591]

More BB please! Thank you!!

[@MarkZabel]

You got it!

[@ronraby4561]

Mark you're waking me up thank you sir it is awesome that you are very knowledgeable and generous with your skill love brother keep on rocking. I'm getting ready to have surgery on my right arm cubical tunnel and carpel tunnel so I will be one handed for a while then I will have my left one fixed same thing years of chainsaw and chopping wood I look forward to better use of my hands .I do watch everything I can find you produce thank you 😊

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much! Best of luck in regaining full use of your hands.

[@dchanson55]

Great lesson Mark. I think Peter Green is great, especially Black Magic Woman, superb riffs in that one, hint hint.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks and LOL!

[@MarkZabel]

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[@jackiedixon5076]

Thanks. Great Lesson

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@dallastoto3189]

Some times we get so wrapped up in playing fast that we miss letting the solo breathe. Thanks for showing me to slow down and enjoy the musical journey.

[@MarkZabel]

You bet. Thanks for watching!

[@dirkgibbens377]

Here I am, a year late… but another awesome lesson. You show us all some clear simple ways to open doors to better playing/soloing. You really demystify the fretboard. Subbed

[@MarkZabel]

Cool, thanks! Glad you're enjoying the videos Dirk!

[@michaelmerrullo2043]

Nice lesson! Love your new video intro and display. The simplicity of box makes it easy to play over turnarounds too

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much! Yes, it's easy and the few notes work for everything so you can focus on playing something meaningful rather than a pattern. Think about what to say and how to say it rather than, "which notes do I play?"

[@SteveJohnson-tj2xl]

excellent versatile lesson Mark! Your concise teaching style covers a lot in relatively few words..just great!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much Steve! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@CraigsWorkshop]

Loved this lesson. Thank you Mark!

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

[@haro82]

Excellent lesson. Thanks!

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@etiennevanonselen7949]

Thanks 4 your input, succinct..appreciated

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure! I've tried to continue to pare down the length of the material lately. Thanks for noticing!

[@dahenjo7633]

Wow, nice new intro, Mark! Thanks for this lesson, I'll soon be changing my name to BB Green...

[@MarkZabel]

Ha ha! Thanks man! Good name choice!

[@mayawebdesign]

Can you also explain the rest of the solo: "Need Your love So Bad" in the B.B. King Box?

[@MarkZabel]

Great suggestion, thanks.

[@patriottothecore6215]

That’s why the lead break in Queen’s Crazy Little Thing works

[@Stevegoodine]

Great stuff thankyou for the lessons

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@Dreyno]

I never knew exactly what the BB Box was. Turns out I’ve been using it for years without knowing what it was called. The over bends always sound great in it.

[@MarkZabel]

Yes, the old rockers like Page and Don Felder used it often.

[@matteobarbera9250]

Thank you for your lesson

[@MarkZabel]

You are welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@sassebensur7288]

Un big Merci !!!

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@hepgeoff]

This was great, thanks!

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@robertevans2143]

Excellent lessons! Some great ideas. Subscribed!

[@MarkZabel]

Awesome, thank you!

[@seansutube5791]

Great job. Thank you so much

[@MarkZabel]

You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@rocker8692]

So the bb box isn't really part of the minor pentatonic in A,right,it looks more part of a B minor scale.

[@MarkZabel]

If you examine the notes, you'll find it's a minor pentatonic, but with the b7 replaced by the 6th. But "the BB Box" is actually the specific formation in the video. The key is that so many of the notes are chord tones, and it works especially well on the 4 chord.

[@daanhendriks2606]

thanks so much! you teach the useful stuff thanks thanks thanks

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching Dean!

[@bwalk009]

Solid Gold!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Bill!

[@TommySG1]

Great way to get a whole lot of mileage out of a 5 note box man! I always find myself running out of things to add while I’m in there and a lot of it is mostly what you emphasized regarding the 1/2 note bends, whole note etc… that alone can sure give you lots more options as you obviously showed us Mark. Great lesson.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Thomas!

[@timaddison707]

Great lesson. Love your content.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much!

[@ianrichardson3968]

I call it the everybody's box..coz everybody uses it..including Moi... Just chuck us 6 numbers will ya....while you're on a psychic roll.. Need your love was the first full solo i learned..because I love it so much..still do.

[@MarkZabel]

Interesting. I find most students I teach don't know it. But almost all of them know the usual minor pentatonic box. Thanks for the comment!

[@magnussundman1463]

Thanks Mark

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@fkustaa]

Is the BB box just below the 12th fret where you are playing it with the root note of A at the `10th fret on the b string? I thought that some blues guitarists teach that the BB box is a pattern that is movable across the guitar neck. Please explain.

[@MarkZabel]

Good question. In the key of A, the usual BB Box is from the G-string 11th, B-string 10 and 12 and the E-string 10 and 12. The g-string 9 is also sometimes included. That's the basic area. You could also play it in different strings based upon octave, but the above is the usual one where BB, Jimmy Page, and so many others have used effectively.

[@fkustaa]

@@MarkZabel Thank you sir for answering my question on the BB box. This is something that I am interested in, but I found it confusing when I tried to learn it when I started learning blues guitar playing.

[@RobertPickeringBucketList69]

WOW... so glad I found you and subscribed!!!!

[@MarkZabel]

Welcome aboard!

[@javiceres]

Reminds me of how sweet are Peter Green’s licks and tunes

[@lamper2]

house pattern, 4 note blues pattern, BB Box, mass confusion for me until I finally understood it. Griff also explains this stuff well.

[@MarkZabel]

Hope this helped a bit. When I learned it 100 years ago we just called it ... "You know the pattern ... yeah, that one!"

[@lamper2]

@@MarkZabel your lessons are very well done. I'm glad I stumbled in!

[@57RickH]

Great vid and your Peter Green solo was smooth 👍🏻. Gonna have to learn that myself.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! Great one to learn for sure.

[@ayushmanbhalla8737]

thanks for this lesson !

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure!

[@waynegram8907]

The Peter Green Scale formula is 1-3b-4-5-6 , bending the 3b to the major 3rd which is the major hexatonic scale unless he was using something else? I don't think Peter Green used the 7b note, correct me if I'm wrong.

[@MarkZabel]

He bent the 1/2 step to the b7 of the IV chord. Didn't use it over the I chord. So he bent to the C over the D chord.

[@waynegram8907]

@@MarkZabel I'm not sure if you made a video lesson about this about using the bVI chord and bVII chord because in blue tonality they often will use the bVI and bVII but these are considered borrow chords in classical music but in blues music its considered the mixolydian key as chord functions bVII. Its not normal to be playing a bVII major chord or bVII7 chord in major keys in classical music but in blues its normal tonality.

[@RickDanner]

sounds great

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@UpliftingRiffs]

Great job man!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@leeantell4152]

Great work! Thanks for this lesson.

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@robingladman7783]

This excellent iam 70years old so much wow keep email coming please

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks for listening

[@peppyharley6901]

Thanks!

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@mattkanter1729]

Excellent! Thank you ! Question please ( curious..)- Why “ … key of A ‘ because we’re guitar players ‘ “ ? Thanks

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! Guitarists so often do things in A or E. (Page and Hendrix) I teach in Bb or Ab sometimes and people go bananas!

[@goingbonzo5923]

Good one Mark! I would like to know where you get the backing tracks?

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! I either make them myself or buy them ... usually here: www.karaoke-version.com/

[@tedjenkins1736]

Cool info! I have one question: In the BB Box, the D (high E string, first finger, 10th fret) doesn't really sound like it fits,. But if I drop it to the 9th fret (C#) it does. Am I smoking something?

[@the_fleeing_dutchman]

Thank you for this lesson. But what I don't understand is how these 4 notes (starting from the A) fit into any A scale? If it were A Major, the third note should be a D flat, rather than the D. If it were A Minor, you would have the A and the C, rather than the B, and the G and E on the G string, rather than the G flat and the E. So, where does the BB box fit into the normal scales? Or is it that playing part of the B minor pentatonic over an A progression, gives you that sound? Please explain. Thank you!

[@MarkZabel]

You bet. They do fit into a scale, BUT don't think that notes have to fit into a particular scale. Scales are musical tools, nothing more, nothing less. Having said the above, it comes directly from the major scale. If you're playing in an A Blues the BB Box has notes (A, B, D, E, and F#). In the key of A, the major scale is A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#. So the BB Box is the 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 of the scale. Fits directly into the major scale.

[@the_fleeing_dutchman]

@@MarkZabel Thank you Mark, you're correct. Now it makes perfect sense!

[@SebTheFrenchGuy]

I was already playing it without knowing i was pkaying it .

[@daniel_chayra]

Vidoes lookin clean brotha!!!!

[@MarkZabel]

Appreciate it!! I'm working on my lighting and trying to follow some of the advice you gave me. At some point I'll need to step it up again, but I felt pretty good about this one. Got that boring black background, but I'm space-limited for the time being.

[@RubberSmuggins]

I can`t find "I Need Your Love So Bad" on your website.

[@MarkZabel]

It's in 2021, Jan-June. Named after the lesson, not the song.

[@RubberSmuggins]

@@MarkZabel Cheers Mark, I found it. Also enjoying your vids.

[@MarkZabel]

@@RubberSmuggins Great!

[@azizaziz7007]

Hey Mark, I may be reading it wrong but are the tabs slightly different than what you have played or is it just my misunderstanding. The second phrase of the 'I need your....' is where I can't mimic you.

[@MarkZabel]

I just played it through using the tab, and listened to the tab as well. Looks pretty good to me.

[@azizaziz7007]

@@MarkZabel my bad, I didn't realize there were two pdfs. I was scrolling up and down the same pdf. Too early for me.

[@charlesnolan2726]

Wondering do you offer any actual courses? By course I mean start at point a to point B etc.

[@MarkZabel]

Hi Charles. Sorry for the slow response. Recovering from food poisoning Tuesday night. I offer a number of courses. 1. Blues for the absolute beginner (very, very basic): mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/p/electric-blues-for-the-absolute-beginner 2. 5-T level 1. mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/p/5-t-level-1-launch 3. The rest of them: mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/

[@overcome8628]

can u start showing us solo runs/sequences/patterns/?

[@MarkZabel]

Sure.

[@MustafaBaabad]

Thank you very much for such useful lesson Mark. It will be better if you can sketch the notes on a piece of paper and show it for 5 seconds. Some people can memorize it better when it is shown in visual information. Anyway, I can always replay the video and draw it myself. Thank you and Cheers from Indonesia.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks.

[@2bikemikesguitartopics145]

Mark did you and Marty Music coordinate releasing. B.B. King box same day?

[@MarkZabel]

What? No way! That's great. I need to link to his video right away!

[@MarkZabel]

Okay, I changed a few tags. Thanks! Hopefully I get get some views from his exhaust so to speak. You'll note he's playing a new, fancy 335. Mine's no custom shop model. Got mine in 1982. Made in Kalamazoo! :)

[@2bikemikesguitartopics145]

@@MarkZabel I saw his video where Gibson gave him the guitar at the factory

[@robroelvink4649]

Hanks for making thuis understandable for me..a older gitarplayer.

[@MarkZabel]

Glad to help!

[@larryhall2805]

I've been playing a 'cheese whiz' version of the Whole Lotta Love solo for 45 years. I need to correct that!

[@MarkZabel]

LOL! Love that expression: cheese whiz version!

[@larryhall2805]

@@MarkZabel 😀

[@mediumdun18]

Mark....sorry for the bother . I signed up for your school on the recent enrollment and when following link above I can't seem to find the tab. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious

[@MarkZabel]

It's in the "Mark Z's KZbin Free" course, 2021. "BB Box - Need Your Love"

[@mediumdun18]

@@MarkZabel and of course there it is....right in front of my nose. Thanks Mark and sorry for the bother

[@MarkZabel]

@@mediumdun18 no worries!

[@garys1092]

The Peter Green intro sounds similar to the epic Gary Moore's Jumping at Shadows.

[@MarkZabel]

Yes, that's probably where Gary got it. Plus, for many years he used "Greeny" - Peter Green's Les Paul.

[@mattdelahunt301]

Hi mark cool intro I just wanted to let you know the Facebook message i sent you was the radio station show I did last year i hope you get to listen to someday.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Matt!

[@Ones_Complement]

Super confused. Thought the BB box was the top of shape 2 with the minor root on the ring finger. You're playing something else with the A on your index? Looks like you're in B minor to me.

[@MarkZabel]

Great question. Yes, you're confused, and it *is confusing* because of the similar shape. The B.B. Box is not shape 2 of the minor pentatonic scale. It substitutes the major 6th for the flat 7. Then the classic "BB box" position is shown here. BUT, yes, the BB Box for A does resemble the shape 2 for the B-minor pentatonic. (The same for these strings) Here's a short explanation which compares the two directly. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZSchp6vfNeEia8

[@Ones_Complement]

@@MarkZabel So it's A minor shape 3, but leaving out the b3 and b7, and raising the b6. Interesting, have always seen the BB box taught as just the shape two extension, but seems this gets pretty chromatic. Any idea why that raised 6 works? Is it better over certain chords? Thanks!

[@rayfletcher8759]

I've always called that pattern the House of Blues.

[@MarkZabel]

Very often the pattern 2 frets toward the neck from this pattern is called the "House of Blues" or some even call it "The Albert King Box" today.

[@Indigo-lucky]

Yea. This pattern is just part of the 3rd shape from the root position. For ex., if root is C and is on the 6th string 8th fret, then you have this position where root is on string 2(B) 12th fret, so 4 frets (=2 boxes or shapes) down from the root shape. It’s where you have the C shape of CAGED whereas the root position coincides with the E shape (so 2 before). The BB King box for C major is like the open strings 1st 3 fret position on the top 3 strings but taken up an octave. Mark, I think it was confusing when you made it sound as if it’s not a named position. I get what you mean that it’s not any one complete position but it is in the older books along with any 5 position teachings, just using 3 of the 6 strings. Same as the House of Blues is just a 3-string part of a known position. Where house of blues looks Ionian, BB Box shape looks Phrygian. It’s a part of a well-known recognizable shape. Great content, thanks a lot!

[@kevinoneal7944]

Where are the tabs?

[@MarkZabel]

In the description of the video there's a link.

[@kevinoneal7944]

Thank you, Mark.

[@greenmanalishi6963]

More peter green pls

[@MarkZabel]

You got it!

[@billlybarrue5953]

Peter Green was the greatest. Bar none.

[@Neil-qf6df]

This guys voice sends me to sleep 😪

[@MarkZabel]

That's the plan. You'll accidentally binge my videos.

[@alibengali8588]

To much Words Bro, sorry

[@lightfoot413]

thank you..good stuff and an easy box to learn

[@MarkZabel]

Glad it was helpful!